Production Models: Eastern States Farmers Exchange 40' insulated plug door boxcars (marked as REFRIGERATOR) with diecast 3-rail trucks, standard for ESLES projects. Paint schemes and road numbers issued match prototype photos.

Another Extraordinary Issue formerly available from

    Eastern States Limited Editions Society

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Eastern States Farmers Exchange (ERDX)

40' Insulated Plug Door Boxcar

• TRUE Limited Edition: Only 100 cars produced.
• Project date: 7-2006.
• Sold out; no longer available.
• Road numbers issued: 11002, 11046, 11060.
• Custom decorated on Weaver/Crown carbodies by Hayter-Weaver Inc. for Buffalo Creek Graphics, the exclusive distributor for Eastern States Limited Editions Society custom run cars.
• Accurately modeled in O Scale 1:48 or 1/4"=1'.
• Prototypically accurate lettering and graphics.
• Green car body, black roof, white lettering and graphics.
• Road Number 10060 has Eastern States Farmers Exchange Logo with  NYCRR Black Rock  return markings.
• Road Number 11002 has Eastern States Farmers Exchange Logo with  NKPRR Huron  return markings.
• Prototype built date: 4-58.
• TrainResource.com Historical Notes. More below.

HISTORICAL NOTES Eastern States Farmers Exchange was a regional farmer's cooperative established in Springfield, MA, in the 1920's that grew to become one of the largest co-ops of its kind, serving the agricultural community of New England and Upstate New York, and eventually as far west as Northwestern Pennsylvania and Northern Ohio. The Exchange, along with the GLF (Grange League Federation) merged in 1964, to form Agway Inc., based in Syracuse, NY. The Pennsylvania Farm Bureau was added a year later. Called the embodiment of rural self-help ideals by then Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Agway made $338 million in sales while serving 85,000 members during its first year of operation. The 2006-7 ESLES cars are a replication of the 40' plug door boxcars used to transport feed and other agricultural products from the Eastern States Farmers Exchange's milling operations in Huron, Ohio, and Tonawanda (Buffalo), New York, in the late 1950's and early 1960's.                 HURON, OH   TONAWANDA, NY Cars like the one being modeled and pictured were rebuilt in 1958 for the New York Central at Despatch Shops, Inc. (formerly Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. 1897-1939; sometimes spelled Dispatch Shops) in East Rochester, NY. ERDX cars from this series were seen all over the northeastern U.S. until well after the Agway merger. Their dark green livery with white lettering and graphics (pre-Penn Central** ) make these cars a colorful addtion to any railroad. ** Penn Central closed the East Rochester Car Shops and assigned future car work to the former Pennsy facility at Hollidaysburg, PA, near Altoona, on Apr. 1, 1970.