Furniture and Automobile Box Cars

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 1930s: 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 1940s and 1950s: 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.

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.