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big train posted:

The car looks very similar to the Wabash boxcar offered by Rails Unlimited, albeit with different mix of ends and doors.  But the general proportions, bracing, and door position all look equivalent to the 1 and 3/4 door version of that car.  And since the Rails Unlimited car comes with two different styles of ends, and options for door opening sizes, it seems reasonable to assume that those features were specified per order.  Other roads might have chosen the end featured in your pictures.

That's sort of a problem with O scale from my perspective, we have atlas and others painting their stuff for every road there is regardless of whether there was ever one of them in real life. Some modelers prefer to have actual models of the real thing.  I think it might be a difference in perspective, since some modelers model "trains", and while their choice of engines and caboose may be specific, what is in between them is really just a blur. Other modelers don't care if a specific car or engine or whatever really existed, they just like the looks of it. Some people model to model, and every item they incorporate in their layout needs to be a model of something that was real, and still others get even more specific than that, like if a certain model ever ran on their chosen roads rails, what time period, Proto48, etc. 

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