This model is an Atlantic Coast Despatch reskin of Michael Stephan’s freeware 36ft Truss-Rod Frame Double Sheathed Boxcar by Harry R. Adkins. The generic pack can be downloaded at http://www.stephan-michael.de/railsim/packsrw/box36.html .  This model is not an exact representation since the boxcar is not ventilated, but for me, it’s “close enough.”

Run the RW_AssetSetup file to install the model.  In the scenario editor the model is listed as: “Boxcar 36ft-ACD”.  This model is installed into:  Assets\GreatNortherner\ SteamEra\RailVehicles\Freight\36ft-Box-Generic\ACD\.

In 1887, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad forged an agreement and signed a contract with the Pennsylvania Railroad resulting in a through freight line called The Atlantic Coast Dispatch. Both Railroads set aside cars and marked them The Atlantic Coast "Despatch". A system of rates were established and the contracts gave the PRR and the Coast Line a common interest in prompt return of empty cars and in maintaining fast freight schedules.

Cars assigned to the Atlantic Coast Despatch from ACL were all ventilated box cars. The last of the ACL cars built were type O-17 cars (36 feet long with a steel under frame weighing in at 46,500 lbs.)  All of these cars were built in ACL shops between 1922 and 1923.  A total of two thousand cars from their shops scattered across the south at Sanford and Lakeland (FL), Florence (SC), Rocky Mount and Wilmington (NC), Waycross (GA) and Montgomery (AL). The fact that so many of the shops built these cars accounts for some variances in the original build. The car class had two doors per side -- one ventilated and one solid door. In the off / non-produce season, the solid door was used for general bill of lading freight. Cars remained on the roster up until and past the merger with the SAL.

The Charleston and Western Carolina also owned cars of the identical build as well as some cars that were of the same design but built as standard Box cars.   http://www.richyodermodels.com/acl_history.htm

This package is released as freeware.  You can do whatever you wish with it EXCEPT make money with its use.

Harry R. Adkins