7700 M-15 AND CLONE DS_AUTO CARS, B&O LV 7701 M15/15A 1910-12 AUTO CARS B&O Price: $30.00 Shipping: $0.00 Part Number: 7701 Qty: ERAS: 10s 20s 30s DS_AUTO MODELS: earliest 2 installations up to rebuilding in late '20's-late '30's. ROADS: B&O Baltimore & Ohio settled on a standard house car in 1910. From then until 1924 all box cars were built to this design. However, over the years many improvements were made both in new cars and upgrades of older cars. The M-15/15A classes were completely double sheathed double door cars. All later designs had single doors. The M-15B/C/E designs had reverse corrugation 3-panel ends. The M-15D had alternate USRA steel ends. The M-15F and M-15H/J rebuilds had single sheathed "Indestructible" ends. Almost all classes had some physical differences despite the similarity of ends. The cars went through at least 5 changes of lettering, ending up with the billboard B&O. M-15B-J cars ran into the late 1940`s before scrapping started and some lasted into the 1960`s. We model the M15, M15A, M-15B, M-15C, M15D, -E and -H classes in physically different kits with decals that cover from delivery up to, but not including billboards. Kit 7701 models both the M-15 of 1910-11 and the M-15A of 1912 by including interchangable parts. The cars also differed from the M-15A of 1915 by using grab irons instead of ladders. The kit covers the car from installation up to rebuilding. Some cars were rebuilt beginning in the late 1920's with Indestructible ends but many retained their double sheathed ends until rebuilding into M-15H/J box cars in 1937-42. WESTERFIELD 53 RIVER LANE CROSSVILLE, TN 38555 Telephone: 931-484-7233 E-Mail: westerfield@charter.net