CGW 5643 is an all-steel PS-1 type boxcar built for general freight service. The PS-1 was one of the most successful boxcar designs ever, with Pullman-Standard building more than 77,000 largely identical boxcars of this type in the 1940s and 1950s. Builder: Pullman-Standard Year Built: 1957 Length: 44ft 2in Width:

Chicago & Alton 39167 was built for the purpose of carrying automobiles. Similar to a standard boxcar, it is fitted with much wider double doors for easier loading of automobiles from a platform alongside the tracks. It is a “single-sheathed” car, built with exposed structural members and only a single

DOTX 503 is the 1,000,000th boxcar built by Pullman-Standard and its predecessor companies. When new it received an elaborate paint scheme from Pullman celebrating the milestone. It is a development of the PS-1 all-steel boxcar and features “waffle” sides for added strength. COMPARE ME WITH: CGW 5643, an early and

CGW 601 is a standard railroad caboose designed for general freight service over the CGW system in Illinois and Iowa. It has a centered cupola on the roof to provide the conductor better visibility over his train. Its design echoes that of cabooses built for railroads in the northeast, where

Chicago & Western Indiana 1185 is a rare example of a wooden side-dump ballast car. It was designed to carry ballast, fill, or other aggregate and the sides opened so that the car could be emptied to the side of the tracks. Once common on railroads, cars like this were