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Globe Models included 40-ft. boxcars, tank cars ((two sizes) and cattle cars. The boxcar and cattle car were build over a wood subframe, with stamped steel sides, and brass or steel ends, doors, and roof , and a stamped steel underframe. Detail parts were diecast. The cattle car had plastic sides, as I recall. The earlier boxcar kits had brass ends, boxcar doors and roofs, with only the sides being prepainted steel. Later boxcars had steel ends, doors and roofs, and all these parts, in addition to the sides, were prepainted (on both sides!) with a nice semi-gloss finish. I remember being impressed with this finish as opposed to the dead flat Athearn finish- and the Athearn cars were never painted except on one side- encouraging later rusting unless you went to the trouble to paint those sides (no one ever did!). The tank car kits featured prepainted upper and lower tank segments, while the tank ends, dome, underframe and detail parts were diecast (or in the case of the centersill and cross members, stamped steel) and were unpainted. In the 50's I built a NYC boxcar and a Texaco tank car and thought these were pretty spiffy! Globe freightcar kits are currently bringing pretty decent prices on EBay. <br />-Richard W.
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