Furniture and Automobile Box Cars

Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, spiral bound with plastic cover, 158 pages, 11 x 8.5 x.75 in., B&W photographs and illustrations.

Santa Fe Rolling Stock Reference Series Volume 3 Please Note: The production of the title incurred 'splotches' on the printing of the plastic cover. It is found on all copies. Volume 3 in the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society's Rolling Stock Reference Series covers Furniture and Automobile Box Cars.

The author, the late Richard Hendrickson, well-known to most Santa Fe fans as Mr. Freight Car, was a frequent contributor to the Warbonnet, and its predecessors as well as co-author of Volume Two in this series, Refrigerator Cars: Ice Bunker Cars, 1884-1953.

Contents:

• Preface, pp. 7–10
• Historical Background, pp. 11–18
• Early Santa Fe Furniture Cars: Classes Fe-A through Fe-I, pp. 19–26
• The First Steel Underframe Cars: Classes Fe-J through Fe-O, pp. 27–36
• Composite Cars of the 1920's: Classes Fe-P through Fe-U, pp. 37–48
• Rebuilt Steel Auto Cars of the 1930's: Classes Fe-5 through Fe-20, pp. 49–80
• Auto Cars of the World War II Period: Classes Fe-21 through Fe-25, pp. 81–100
• New Steel Auto Cars of the 1940's and 1950's: Classes Fe-21 through Fe-25, pp. 101–118
• Double Door Cars of the Modern Era: Classes Fe-31 through Fe-42, pp. 119–136
• Painting and Lettering, pp. 137–144
• All-time Roster of Santa Fe Furniture and Automobile Cars, pp. 145–147
• Class Slogan Assignments, pp. 148–150
• Selected Fe-Class General Arrangement and Lettering Drawings, pp. 151–155.