This model is a Gulf, Florida and Alabama reskin of Michael Stephan’s freeware 36ft Truss-Rod Frame Double Sheathed Boxcar by Harry R. Adkins. The generic pack can be downloaded at http://www.stephan-michael.de/railsim/packsrw/box36.html .  This model is not an exact representation since the boxcar is not ventilated, but for me, it’s “close enough.”

The GF&A stretched 192 miles from Carrabelle, Fla. to Richland, Ga, forming an important bridge route between Richland and Tallahassee. Richland was on the Seaboard Railway’s Montgomery to Savannah route and Tallahassee was on the Chattahoochee to Jacksonville route. Other important junctions were with the Atlantic Coast Line at Bainbridge and the Central of Georgia at Arlington and Cuthbert.

Traffic included yellow pine and cypress timber harvested along the entire mainline. Some important lumber mills were the Babcock Lumber Co., Flint River Lumber Co. and Camp Brothers Lumber Co. Tobacco was the principal crop along the route, and which gave them their nickname as the Sumatra Leaf Route. Fullers Earth was mined near Quincy, Florida and provided many carloads for the local trains plying the branch. There was also hope that the building of the Panama Canal would provide traffic but the competition was tough as Pensacola and Panama City provided better services and connections.

Run the RW_AssetSetup file to install the model.  In the scenario editor the model is listed as: “Boxcar 36ft-GFA”.  This model is installed into:  Assets\GreatNortherner\ SteamEra\RailVehicles\Freight\36ft-Box-Generic\GFA_5031\.

This package is released as freeware.  You can do whatever you wish with it EXCEPT make money with its use.

Harry R. Adkins
May 2015