PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:Ubiquitous to an earlier era, the typical post-World War IIboxcar was 40 feet in length with a 6-foot door opening ineach side. These cars roamed the country in general servicehauling such things as eastern merchandise, north westernlumber, furniture, paper, auto parts and grain. The shippermade sure his freight fit into the 40-foot general service boxcarif it couldn’t be hauled in tank, hopper or gondola cars.

MODEL FEATURES:

• Superior Door unless noted

• Separately applied roof walk and brake wheel

• 70-Ton Bettendorf trucks with 33” machined metal wheels

• Fully-assembled and ready to run out of the box

• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body

• Painted and printed for realistic decoration

• Multiple road numbers

• Weighted for trouble free operation

• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on Code 55, 70, 75, 80, 83, 100 rail

• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers

• Window packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage

•Minimum radius: 18"