portable "step boxes"

[NW Mailing List]

I wonder if there are any pictures good enough to model?  What color, if 
panted, were they?

Walter Davis, Youngsville, NC

On 10/18/2022 10:06 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> They were not used just at Crewe. I can remember seeing step boxes 
> used at stations with platforms. That first step is pretty high for 
> some people. The portable step boxes were pretty much standard in the 
> 1940's and '50's. And, I think I remember, not just on the N&W.
>
> Jim Nichols
>
> On Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 01:36:28 AM CDT, NW Mailing List via 
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> Yes - they were used at Crewe for all passenger trains that I saw in the
> 50's and 60's:  Nos 7-8, 25-26, 3-4, 15-16. They are all the ones that I
> was familiar with. I rode on 7-8 as a child and 3-4 later.
>
> William M (Bill) Mason
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