I’ve been collecting the Industrial Rail line of O-27 cars for about a year. At first, I collected one of every car in the road names I was interested in and finally thought I had all the cars I wanted. However, while scanning through EBAY I noticed that several cars of the same Industrial Rail part number had different numbers stenciled on the car, many having 3 to 4 different numbers. These are great O-27 cars and great fun to collect, being out of production, and with the added challenge of identifying and collecting all the different numbers for any given car. Below is a list of cars in my collection.
INDUSTRIAL RAIL IR P/N ROAD NAME ROAD NUMBERS
Trolleys
14003 City Transport na
Hand Car
10000 na na
Single Door Boxcar
1001 NYC Pacemaker 174530 174545 1006 Rio Grande 61003 1007 BNSF 730742 730752 1008 NYC Systems 180190 1010 ATSF 17907
Work Caboose
1704 ATSF 5334
Hoppers with Coal Load
4001 Virginian 23348 4002 Rio Grande 16416 16500 4003 NYC Systems 868001 868062 868074
Tank Car
6007 BNSF 85407 6009 Domino Sugar 1709 6011 Gulf 5890
Flat Cars
w/ Car 7001 N&W 2725 w/Pipe 7004 UP 42162
w/ Wood 7005 ATSF 92889
w/ Stakes 7503 ATSF 92992
Ore Cars
8100 Tuscan Red na
Double Door Box Cars
1105 ATSF 141702
Covered Hoppers
4102 ATSF
George, these are not all my IR cars… but these are numbers/and or cars not on your list that I have:
NYC Pacemaker Box Car also 174479
BN Box Car 199250
BNSF Box Car also 730762, 730572
Norfolk Southern Box Car 90389, 90371
UP Double Door Box 134699
PRR Dble Door Box 74043
C&O Dble Door Box 6814
ART Reefer 29047
PRR/REA Box Car 5769
Chessie Gondola 370479, 370500
Chessie Hopper 26621 (this is in another number too but I redid it to CSX)
NKP Box Car 16597
PRR Tank Car 498599 (this is in another number too, but I repainted it to PC)
ADM Tank Car 30180
NW Work Caboose 1698
B&O Flat Car 8955
I have most of what is on your list in same numbers, so I didn’t repeat those. I know the NYC Pacemaker is also in another number, but I made a PC post-merger out of it. I know I had that one in 4 different numbers at one time. I’ve also repainted a load of others into Conrail, CSX and Norfolk Southern, so I can’t say what those original numbers were.
I remade my NW Work Caboose into a NS Work/Crane Car. I added other decals, but I believe I left the original car number on it. I had several NYC Hoppers that became Penn Central, so I don’t recall original numbers on those. I’ve repainted quite a few B&O flat cars too. The one I listed is the only one I haven’t redone. I have others too, but the ones above were the easiest to find.
Yes, I know, I have too many trains.
Here is a list I have not updated since December of 2000:
Type
Item Road Name Road Numbers Original Release
Boxcar
1000 undecorated n/a 1999 Midyear
1001 NYC Pacemaker 174479* 174545 1997 Initial
1002 Pennsylvania 5769* 5801* 5839 1997 Initial
1003 Burlington Northern 199250* 199276* 199323 1997 Initial
1004 Milwaukee Road 21329* 21347 1999 Spring
1005 Norfolk Southern 90371* 1999 Spring
1006 D&RGW Cookie Box 61003* 61019 1999 Spring
1007 BNSF 730742* 730752 1999 Spring
1008 New York Central 180190 1999 Midyear
1009 Nickel Plate Road 16537 1999 Midyear
1010 Santa Fe 17907 2000 Midyear
1011 Soo Line 177853 2000 Midyear
Double Door Boxcar
1100 undecorated n/a 2000 Midyear
1101 C&O 6814* 1999 Spring
1102 Union Pacific 134698* 134699 1999 Spring
1103 TAG Route 7016* 1999 Spring
1104 Pennsylvania 74043 1999 Midyear
1105 ATSF 141702 1999 Midyear
1106 Great Northern 25472 2000 Midyear
1107 Chessie / B&O 5624 2000 Midyear
Caboose
1501 ATSF 999970 New (2000)
1502 Burlington Northern 10855 New (2000)
1503 Chessie / B&O none New (2000)
Work Caboose
1701 Pennsylvania 49160
Guys and Gals(?),
Thanks for the feed back.
George