Charles Winters Photo

The Minneapolis and St. Louis received three hundred 40-ton USRA Double Sheathed Box Cars from Lenoir Car Works. The M&St.L augmented the original group with secondhand purchases from Hyman-Michaels in 1937, 1940, 1941 and 1942. The data for these cars is as follows:

Series Start	Series End	No. Cars	Acquired	Acquired From	USRA or Clone
22000	22598	300	1919	Lenoir Car Works	USRA
25000	25298	150	1937	Hyman-Michaels	USRA
25300	25898	250	1940	Hyman-Michaels	USRA
51000	51398	200	1941	Hyman-Michaels	USRA
52000	52266	134	1942	Hyman-Michaels	Clone

The preceding information was presented in Westerfield's Prototype Data Sheet for the M&St.L USRA Double Sheathed Box Car kits. For more information about these or other Westerfield kits, please visit the Westerfield web site.