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Micro-Trains - N Scale - Canadian Trailer on Flat Car Series - 57 ft TOFC - Canadian National (CN) - (PWRS Exclusive) 3-Pack - Not Available Through Micro-Trains - with 3 different "CN Intermodal" Trailers (SKU 489-45290010)

Available On: January 1, 2016

Canadian National TOFC 3-pack and Canadian National "Intermodal" 3-pack – Pacific Western Rail Systems

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Pacific Western Rail Systems is pleased to announce the fourth issues in our new “Canadian Trailer on Flat Car Series” - Limited Run PWRS – Micro-Trains Runner Packs.

Both packs will feature three CN 57’ Converted TOFC Flat Cars painted brown with white lettering. They were built 1968 by Napanee Industries, of Napanee, Ontario as part of Canadian National series 687200-687274 and 687300-687323 and ride on roller bearing trucks.

  

Features:

  • Limited one time production run of these 3 road numbers & three separate trailers
  • Micro-Trains trucks and couplers
  • Accurate painting and printing with correct road numbers for each paint scheme.
  • Cars will feature  light weathering to reflect real world appearance

 The Official Micro Trains SKU numbers for the individual cars in the set are (for purposes of collectors):

452 91 010: Canadian National Intermodal Trailer # CNBB 88041
064 92 124 : CN Flat - CN # 687209

452 93 010: Canadian National Intermodal Trailer # CNBB 88045
064 94 124: CN Flat - CN # 687218

452 95 010: Canadian National Intermodal Trailer # CNBB 88047
064 96 124: CN Flat - CN # 697230

 

CN and CP operated sizeable fleets of piggyback trailers. Prior to containerization, piggyback or Trailer On Flat Car (TOFC) was an important transitional step between boxcars and intermodal technology developments, which in turn led to today's long trains of double-stacked containers.  Initially, piggyback loading/unloading ramps were built at or near major yards.  Tractors backed trailers on and drove them off strings of flat cars, a process called circus loading.  Drawbacks: truck drivers had to have steady hands and nerves, flatcars needed siderails to guide the drivers through several cars, and cars had to be correctly marshalled to match the ramp at which they were to be unloaded. GP38-2(W) 5574 leads an eastbound freight approaching a level crossing near Rosetown, Saskatchewan in 1986 with CN TOFC on the head end (above).

 

The Last Image below is courtesy of Eric Gagnon. He has a gret Blog on Canadian Trains which can be viewed at:

http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.ca



















$139.95 US