Where are the MR Anniversary Boxcars?

See photos of this new Wisconsin & Southern RR boxcar that celebrates 75 years of Model Railroader magazine. 

Micro-Trains' N scale model of the MR 75th anniversary boxcar has been released. It is Micro-Trains number 075 00 160, announced in the company's March newsletter.

Neil Besougloff

editor,  Model Railroader 

It won't fit any of my time era's, but I think I want to start an MR anniversary collection. Now if only I knew about the car shops in Horican back in HS when I only lived like a 40 minutes away.....

 Atlas O has announced that it is making an O scale version of the 75th anniversary car, due out later this year.

 Neil Besougloff

editor, MR
 

 The Athearn HO "model" is out.  (The Athearn car is undersized.  Park an Atlas next to it to see the difference.)

WSOR 503175 was in Iron Ridge last time I saw it.  Visible from Fireman's Park.

For what it's worth, I believe that the Athearn RBL uses the old Details West tooling and is something like 3" short. I have one of the Details West cars and four of the Atlas, all repainted and lettered for WSOR.  I read on another discussion group about the "discrepancy" and had never noticed the difference even though I usually run the cars in groups of 2 or more.  Anyway, it's not enough of a difference--at least to my eyes--to matter.

John Timm