The Super Continental Line brings new meaning to the term "museum quality."

Almost every train needs a baggage car, from the hot-shot streamliner to the two-car branchline local. This National Steel Car smooth side baggage-express car has been in use throughout North America for almost 60 years. These baggage cars, along with similar cars from other builders, carried baggage and express traffic on primary, secondary and mixed trains. Many carried sealed mail for the post office. These cars are still used today on Amtrak, VIA Rail, Ontario Northland, Algoma Central and several tourist lines.

The smooth-side baggage car has been the most requested passenger car since we introduced the Super Continental Line in 2006. Our model will feature:

* Even more underbody piping than in our previous releases (we've managed to get six pipes into the back of the HO scale D22 air brake control valve!)
* Separate hand brake chains (sorry, they don't work)
* "Easy-Peasy" battery-operated interior lighting
* Operating baggage doors which open and close by magnetic wand (included)
* Super-detailed trucks in two different styles (41-BNO-11 or 41-N-11)
* Factory-painted and installed metal grab irons and stirrups
* Full interior detail
* Operating diaphragms with end bars
* Separate marker lamps

Many baggage car doors were left open in service, especially on hot summer days. Now you can effectively model open baggage car doors, and you can do it without even touching your model! Each door conceals a metal plate, that allows the doors to open or close with the movement of the included magnetic wand.

We will be releasing the baggage car in several different paint schemes, and for each paint scheme we will produce up to 12 different car numbers.