April Releases Including One April Fools Car - Guess Which One!

 

N Scale Baltimore & Ohio - Rd#294201     

This 40 ft standard box car with double doors is oxide red with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1947, this car advertised the B&O’s Sentinel Service, a Less-than-Carload service that allowed express, siding-to-siding shipments. With a 100,000-pound capacity, this car also featured Sparton Easy Loaders (SEL) with 17 belts to facilitate car servicing.

 

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N Scale Pennsylvania - Rd#88260   

This 50 ft standard box car with double doors is freight car red with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built by the Samuel Rea Shops in 1962 for PRR, this X56 class boxcar was among the last of the type ordered, and had a cushioned underframe and Evans DF loaders. It remained on the roster into the 1980s before being retired.

 

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N Scale ICG w/Load - Rd#978688

This 61 ft bulkhead flat car is orange with black lettering and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1982 by Portec, this car saw revenue service through the 2000s. Designed for transporting large or bulky structural components, these cars had a 286,000-pound gross rail rating.

 

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Our new all-new Grape-to-Glass series will feature 12 unique wine freight cars using three different body styles: the Single Dome Tank Car, 3-Dome Tank Car and Wood Reefer. This prototypically accurate series will begin in early 2020! Contact your PWRS to reserve yours today!

 

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N Scale Cotton Belt - Rd# SSW 70429

These 3-bay covered hoppers with elongated hatches are grey with black lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in the 1970s for St. Louis Southwestern as part of series 70000-70449, these 263,000-pound capacity cars are used to transport lightweight granular and powdered commodities.

 

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N Scale Cotton Belt - Rd# SSW 70094 

These 3-bay covered hoppers with elongated hatches are grey with black lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in the 1970s for St. Louis Southwestern as part of series 70000-70449, these 263,000-pound capacity cars are used to transport lightweight granular and powdered commodities.

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Kinkade Series - Car #12

Art paintings on rolling stock - a Twelve Car Series.  This 60 ft Excess Height Box Car is black with modified side detail featuring Thomas Kinkade’s The Old Fishin’ Hole painting from 2003.  Each car in this 12-month series will feature an amazing painting by Thomas Kinkade in vibrant color!

 

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N Scale New York Central - Rd #1948   

This 78 ft heavyweight single-window coach is two-tone grey and runs on 4-wheel Commonwealth passenger trucks. Built by Standard Steel Company in the 1910s as coach #2137, this car was renumbered #1948 in 1950. It primarily served the eastern New York State region on the NYC Harlem Division.

 

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N Scale BNSF Container - Rd# 281795

These 48 ft rib side containers are grey with blue and green logo. Formed in 1996 following the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, BNSF is currently the largest freight railroad in the country, with over 32,000 miles of rail. At 48’ in length, these containers are commonly seen filling the space in the bottom position of intermodal well-cars, with equal-length or longer containers above them.

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N Scale BNSF Container - Rd# 281964

These 48 ft rib side containers are grey with blue and green logo. Formed in 1996 following the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, BNSF is currently the largest freight railroad in the country, with over 32,000 miles of rail. At 48 ft in length, these containers are commonly seen filling the space in the bottom position of intermodal well-cars, with equal-length or longer containers above them.

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N Scale Runner Pack 164 - Burlington Northern & Santa Fe 4-pack 70 ft Well Cars Road Numbers: BNSF 203005, 203011, 203015, 203016

 

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N Scale Eight-Pack Set - 2-Bay Covered Hopper - Missouri Pacific (MP)
Rd # 409113, 409115, 409116, 409118, 409121, 409122, 409124, 409125

 

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N Scale Eight-Pack Set - 2-Bay Covered Hopper - Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF)
Rd # 409113, 409115, 409116, 409118, 409121, 409122, 409124, 409125

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N Scale Deep Rock (DPRX) Set 1

Rd # 257972, 257988, 258006, 258020, 258154, 258182, 258804, 258806

Founded in 1913 by H.M. Byllesby, a Chicago investment banker, Deep Rock grew in the 1920s and 30s with the purchase of several rivals. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was purchased by the Kerr-McGee Corporation in 1955, and it continues to operate today. Built in 2014, these cars are used to ship heated asphalt in unit trains throughout the country. Contact your dealer to order your 8-pack today.

 

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N Scale Deep Rock (DPRX) Set 2
Rd # 257799, 257845, 257983, 257997, 258023, 258187, 258553, 258715

Founded in 1913 by H.M. Byllesby, a Chicago investment banker, Deep Rock grew in the 1920s and 30s with the purchase of several rivals. Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was purchased by the Kerr-McGee Corporation in 1955, and it continues to operate today. Built in 2014, these cars are used to ship heated asphalt in unit trains throughout the country. Contact your dealer to order your 8-pack today.

 

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N Scale 68 ft DODX Flat Car - Department Of Defense (DODX) - Cascade Green (with reflectors) - with Olive Drab Military Vehicles - 3 pack  

Commissioned by the Department of Defense, Fruit Growers Express (FGE) produced a multipurpose 68’ flat car in 1981 designed to carry the weight of two M1 Abram tanks. DODX painted and marked these cars in various schemes and they can still be found in long consists today. This all new body style will feature a finely detailed deck with vehicle tie down channels, mounting points for containers, an all new underframe as well as new 6-wheel Roller Bearing Buckeye trucks and body-mounted couplers. Each flat car will come with Micro-Train's new plastic injection molded, easy to build kits of the M1 Abram tank with chain tie downs.

 

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N Scale 68 ft DODX Flat Car - Department Of Defense (DODX) - Cascade Green (without reflectors) - with Olive Drab Military Vehicles - 3 pack

 

Commissioned by the Department of Defense, Fruit Growers Express (FGE) produced a multipurpose 68’ flat car in 1981 designed to carry the weight of two M1 Abram tanks. DODX painted and marked these cars in various schemes and they can still be found in long consists today. This all new body style will feature a finely detailed deck with vehicle tie down channels, mounting points for containers, an all new underframe as well as new 6-wheel Roller Bearing Buckeye trucks and body-mounted couplers. Each flat car will come with Micro-Train's new plastic injection molded, easy to build kits of the M1 Abram tank with chain tie downs.

 

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N Scale Montana Rail Link (MRL) MOW Weathered 3-pack Set (3) 50’ Gondolas w/Fixed Ends Road Numbers: 100503, 40004, 40005 & Tie Loader

 

This ex-Burlington Northern gondola was converted by Montana Rail Link to be used for Maintenance of Way service. Carrying railroad ties and a tie loading crane with the ability to “walk” itself from gondola to gondola, it is still being used today. 

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N Scale NYC April Fool's 2-Pack - Rel. 04/20

 These 50 ft standard box cars with single door are black with brown sides and run on Bettendorf trucks. The paint crew was clearly distracted when they stenciled the reporting mark of this prototypically accurate car. And we ain’t foolin’ ya! The real-life cars actually displayed an incorrect “NCY”  and “NYO” reporting marks for at least a decade. Built in 1955, this lot of 500 cars was designed with loading racks to facilitate loading and unloading.

 

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Don't forget to place your orders for the PWRS Exclusive cars!

Micro-Trains - N Scale - PWRS Exclusive - Procor (PROX) Green Tank Cars Weathered & Faded

 

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Micro-Trains - N Scale - PWRS Exclusive - Seattle North Coast (SNCT) Green Boxcars Weathered & Faded

 

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