PWRS Exclusive Micro-Trains

Burlington Northern (BN) - 4-pack

3-Bay ACF Center Flow^® Covered Hopper, w/ Round Hatches

Pacific Western Rail Systems is pleased to announce our PWRS Exclusive Micro-Trains N Scale Burlington Northern (BN) 4-pack. As with all PWRS Exclusive Micro-Trains products, these are limited run products that will never be produced again.

We just received this photo from Micro-Trains and wanted to share it with you. For more photos of the individual cars, click on the SKU listed at the bottom of this media announcement. The sets are due arrive in March!

These 4600 cu.ft. 3 Bay Centerflow Covered Hoppers, with round hatches, are painted Burlington Northern Green with the large white BN logo. They will be heavily weathered and rusted to simulate a real life appearance. Gravity fed, these hoppers are 100 tons, measure 55' 5" long, and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. They were built by American Car & Foundry. 

   The Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States-based railroad company formed from a 1970 merger of four major U.S. railroads — the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad—as well as a few small jointly owned subsidiaries owned by the four. Burlington Northern operated between 1970 and 1996. 

To further expand the Burlington Northern railroad, a single track was constructed in 1972 into the Powder River Basin to serve various coal mines. On November 21, 1980, the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway was acquired, giving the railroad trackage as far south into Florida. By 1981, however, the holding company of the railroad, Burlington Northern, Inc. relocated headquarters from Saint Paul to Seattle, Washington and spun off all non-rail operations to Burlington Resources in 1988. 

On September 22, 1995, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway merged with the Burlington Northern to create the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. However, the merger was not official until December 31, 1996, when a common dispatching system was established, Santa Fe's non-union dispatchers were unionized and the implementation of Santa Fe's train identification codes systemwide. On January 24, 2005, the railroad shortened its name to BNSF Railway.

Reservations Due By: September 30, 2017

Expected March 2018