portable "step boxes"

Tue Oct 18 15:44:03 EDT 2022

Rapido has been perpetually out of the yellow ones. They do have them in orange, if someone wants to paint them. 

https://rapidotrains.com/rapido-bits-ho-scale-passenger-car-step-boxes-orange-pack-of-4.html 

Phil Miller

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And....Rapido makes them in HO scale!

https://rapidotrains.com/rapido-bits-ho-scale-passenger-car-step-boxes-yellow-pack-of-4.html

Jim Brewer

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:45 PM James Brewer <jim.brewer.3611 at gmail.com <mailto:jim.brewer.3611 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Here is a promotional image, but I'm almost certain they were used at most stations in passenger service.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=108319

Jim Brewer

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:38 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > wrote:

I worked on the extra board out of Williamson and caught the passenger run to Roke in 1967. We had a step box on that run. 

As to color it was the same red as the passenger coaches (tuskin red?) and the top was black There was some gold lettering on it but I don’t remember what it was.

Larry Reed

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On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 10:32 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> > 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

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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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