Don,
Just so you know, Atlas got the tooling for that car (and several others) from Weaver when Weaver went out of business. All that great detail was designed by Weaver Models and is present in the troop/kitchen/hospital/express cars that they originally made using that tooling. I never understood why Weaver didn't have more of a following in the hobby. For many 3-railers, if Lionel of MTH didn't make it, they are completely unaware of it.