Kit 5.0 Missouri Pacific 50’-6” 50-Ton All-Steel Automobile Cars
and Bx Express Box Cars

This Resin Car Works kit was a tribute to all the work Martin Lofton did to advance prototype modeling.

Check out this page of extra files to assist in your MP Automobile box car builds.

Kit 5.01
Missouri Pacific 50’-6” 50-Ton All-Steel Automobile Cars
and Bx Express Box Cars

This was a special kit for us to produce, as the one-piece body pattern comes from some of the last casting work done by Martin Lofton, who was Sunshine Models. This car was also composed of the last set of patterns done by Charlie Slater for Martin. And while the patterns could have been updated to better match some of the newer detail parts, it was left as Martin had cast them.

On May 9, 1941, the Missouri Pacific Railroad placed an order for 100 of these automobile cars with the American Car & Foundry Company. They were to become the first all-steel 50’ box cars on MoPac’s roster. The order was divided into three lot numbers depending on the interior arrangement. In December 1941 MoPac received the cars that were built at ACF’s plant at Madison, Illinois.

• Lot 2317, 40 cars, M.P. 88300-88339, equipped with Whitehead & Kales racks
• Lot 2318, 35 cars, M.P. 88400-88434, equipped with Evans “Unitloaders”
• Lot 2319, 25 cars, M.P. 86150-86174, without racks

This was a limited run kit.

Decals were included with characters printed in white for the freight version. White and dulux gold decals were also included for the early passenger version.

Check out this page of extra files to assist in your MP Automobile box car builds.