Aircraft Parts Manufacturer and "SkyBox" freight cars.

[jwb]

Here is an Ambroid SP Sky Box, the kit dating from about 1970. Since the decals were 40-plus years old, they were in very bad shape. Luckily I was able to get the large lettering out of them, but most of the small lettering disintegrated when I tried to put it on, and the HYDRA CUSHION on the flat came out very badly. I'll probably have to paint it out. I can piece together a lot of the smaller lettering from Micro Scale data and SP sets.     I can't imagine that these cars lasted very long in this paint scheme, since they went first over Tehachapi and then over the Natron Cutoff on their way to Seattle, so they would have gotten very dirty. This is also not the same type of car as the SP model I scratchbuilt in the post just above -- note that the Sky Box has lift-off top sections, while the later one has just end doors. The later one carries 747 parts, but I think the Sky Box predates the 747 and dates from the early 1960s. But I don't know what plane parts it carried.