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Canadian Pacific
Road Number CPAA 55656
This 89' tri-level closed auto track is painted CP Action Red with white "CP RAIL" letters on Action Red placard and runs on black Barber? roller bearing trucks. Rebuilt in February 1994, this tri-level auto rack includes 4th Generation Thrall doors. It carries the CP Rai l"Action Red" paint scheme for auto racks. The first auto racks had exposed sides that led to vehicle damage from vandalism and weather. In the early 1970?s the railroads started to enclose the auto racks with steel mesh. Auto racks are one of the most commonly seen cars on the railroads today.
#111 00 060...$36.25
 

Union Pacific?
Road Number UP 507406
This 50? standard box car with single Youngstown door and no roofwalk is painted synthetic red with large ?Union Pacific? letters and ?Ship and Travel The Automated Rail Way? slogan and runs on red Bettendorf trucks. The Omaha shops were kept busy in 1968 rebuilding existing freight cars. Improvements included a 10 ft. door. Road number series 507400-507416 class B-50-60 are equipped with 9 belt DF-2 Loaders. Road number 507406 were re-capitalized as new equipment.
#077 00 050...$18.45

Kansas State Car
Road Number KS 1861
This 40? standard box car with plug door is car #32 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Western Meadowlark and Sunflower, Kansas? official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Kansas is in the background. The road number 1861 represents the year the ?Sunflower State? was admitted into the union.
#021 00 396...$19.85

Chessie System/WM
Road Number WM 36008
This 50' standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is painted Enchantment Blue with Federal Safety Yellow sides, Franklin Carr's "Ches-C" logo w/ Kabel Chessie System lettering in Enchantment Blue and runs on black Barber? roller bearing trucks. Built by Evans products for the Western Maryland Railroad in 1967, these insulated cars carried the mechanical designation "RBL" and were equipped with Evans Hydra-Cushion underframes. All insulated boxcars during the Chessie era were eligible to be painted with Federal Safety Yellow sides and Enchantment Blue ends and markings. Franklyn Carr re-designed the famous feline mascot "Ches-C" for the new identity of the Chessie System. #36008 was serviced at Western Maryland's Elkins, WV shops in October of 1977.
#038 00 320...$20.95

Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Road Number CE&I 5
This 40? standard box car with Superior door is painted yellow-orange with black roof & ends, blue C&EI oval, "Speed Service" logo and runs on black Allied full cushion trucks. In September 1945, the C&EI purchased 5, 40'-6" IL express box cars from PSCMCO. Numbered 1-5 and equipped with Ajax power hand brakes, each car carried a different slogan and ran with their passenger service to and from Chicago through Illinois and Indiana. The slogans were: "Route of the Dixie Limited,""Route of the Dixie Flyers,""Route of the Dixie Flagler," "Chicago St. Louis Southwest," & "Chicago Evansville Southeast."
#020 00 705...$18.90

Libby?s Famous Foods
Road Number TLDX 35
This 50? standard box car with plug door is painted a pale blue with olive drab doors, ?Libby?s? shopping cart logo, black and white lettering and runs on blue Barber? roller bearing trucks. Leased from Transport Leasing by Libby?s Famous Foods, this car was built by Pullman-Standard out of Michigan City, Indiana, in August 1963. Transport Leasing is a Division of Pullman Incorporated. Number 35 is part of a seven-car order from lot 8822. Cars 35 thru 39 were painted for Libby?s Famous Foods, while numbers 33 & 34 were painted for the Jewell Tea Company. Some cars remained in their original paint into the 1970s.
#032 00 430...$19.95

 
Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia
Road Number TAG 7016
This 50? wagon top box car with double door has a dark blue body and black roof with yellow TAG logo and lettering and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. This car series is stenciled ?For Carpet Loading Only? and was most likely designated to a carpet mill located along the TAG line. The TAG passed into history in 1971 when it was purchased and merged into the Southern Railway System.
#079 00 060...$23.15

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Road Number ATSF 75045
NEW STEEL BEAM LOAD!
This 50' gondola with fishbelly side and drop ends is painted mineral brown with white lettering and runs on brown roller bearing trucks. ATSF 75045 was built in January 1954 and was last serviced in April of 1974, at the Topeka, Kansas shop. The Atchison & Topeka Railroad was chartered in 1859 to join the cities of Atchison and Topeka then planned to continue southwest toward Santa Fe. ?Santa Fe? was added to the corporate name in 1863.
#046 00 080...$17.15

St. Louis - Southwestern?
Road Number SSW 88267
NEW PULPWOOD LOAD!
This 61' 8" bulkhead flat car is painted box car red with white lettering and runs on black Barber? roller bearing trucks. SSW 88267 is AAR classed FB for bulkhead flat cars, meaning it is equipped with fixed or permanently attached movable bulkheads or ends a minimum of three feet in height and has a flat floor for general commodity loading. The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (AAR reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of ?The Cotton Belt Route? or simply ?Cotton Belt,? was organized on January 15, 1891.
#054 00 030...$18.75

New Z Scale Items
Now Available Undecorated
Z Scale GP-35
? Subject to availability
? Shell & detail colors may vary
? Quantity limits may apply
? Ready-to-run
#981 01 000 (Magne-Matic?) $165.95
#981 01 001 (Marklin?) $164.15

40' Modern Log Car
NEW LOG LOAD
This black 40' modern log car carries a three-log load. The load is held in place by upright stakes attached to the bunks. It has a peacock brakewheel and runs on black Archbar trucks, typical of the log cars used on standard gauge railroads across the United States.
#538 00 020 (Magne-Matic?) $16.95
#538 00 021 (Marklin?) $15.15

Soo Line
Road Number SOO 63352
This 50? gondola with fishbelly sides and drop ends is painted white with large ?SOO LINE? letters and runs on black roller bearing trucks. SOO 63352 was built by Thrall Car Manufacturing Company at Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer in 1976, and was often seen hauling scrap.
#522 00 110 (Magne-Matic?) $15.70
#522 00 111 (Marklin?) $13.90

Union Pacific?
Road Number UP 160157
This 50' standard box car with double Youngstown doors has aluminum roof & ends with reefer yellow sides, UP "Campbell's Soup" with "Automated Rail Way" emblems, black lettering and runs on Archbar trucks with aluminum sideframes and brown draft gear lid and coupler with brown wheels. #160157 is one of the freight cars painted with the early Automated Railway slogan and one of the few cars with the big U.P. letters applied in 1962 in lieu of the traditional U.P. Shield. The experimental square "Campbell's Soup" emblem did not last long, the U.P. Shield had too long a history to discard.
#506 00 080 (Magne-Matic?) $29.20
#506 00 081 (Marklin?) $27.40

 
Canadian Pacific
Road Number 437496
This box car red caboose has red ends, red cupola, yellow hand rails and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. It was repainted with the Canadian Pacific script lettering introduced in 1962.
#535 00 170 (Magne-Matic?) $26.30
#535 00 171 (Marklin?) $24.50