Con-Cor - HO Scale - Heavyweight 65' Branchline Combine w/Lights - New Haven (NH) - Single Car - 2 Rd#s Available: 6003, 6005 - Red/ Black/ White NH Logo (SKU 223-94379)
Available On: January 1, 2015
All railroads had some cars in its passenger fleet that were used in local or branchline service. Often these were older cars that had spent the prime of their life on the mainline "name train" inter-city service. Some railroads like the C&NW, Southern Pacific, Pennsylvania, and Canadian Pacific had hundreds of cars in their commuter fleets. No two railroads used exactly the same designs for their cars, and the lengths of the cars varied as well. Also many cars were sold off as "hand me downs" to smaller roads to be used on mixed train branchline service. So these cars could be at home on any prototype railroad, large or small. We chose to model them as 65 Ft long cars, so they would run on 18 inch radius curves of the average home layout. The time era for these cars stretched from the 1920's to well into the late 1950's.
The New Haven "McGinnis" Scheme orginated in the early 1950's, and the color scheme remains as one of the top dozen or so paint schemes recognized by every model railroader.
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