I am making some simple foam block models of box cars to do a talk on scale to my railroad club. I want to use the standard 40' box car for the demonstration. I know that 40' became standard in the mid 20th century and there were not any narrow gauge cars that were this large. However, just to make a startling impression and show the difference in scale size I want to do a typical 40' box car in the following scales: 1/32 1/29 1/24 1/22.5 1/20.3 1/16 and 1/13.5. These models are only going to be simple blocks of foam with no details such as couplers or trucks. What I need is the height, width and length of a standard 40' boxcar so I can show the correct proportions of the foam blocks which would represent what the cars size would look like for these scales.
Thanks
Big John
Thanks
Big John