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Eastern Seaboard Models - N Scale - General Steel Castings 60 Ton Well Car - 2015 Holiday Car (ESMX) #2015 - Red w/Red & White Lettering (SKU 263-003004)

Available On: March 1, 2016

General Steel Castings offered a 60-ton well car in its product line of one piece cast steel car bodies in 1958. The buyer railroads purchased the components and assembled the cars in their own shops.

Allis-Chalmers company had one well car built in August 1957, road number 400, that was used to ship agricultural machinery. It remained in service though the 1990s and was scrapped in 2005.

Features:

  • Body and detail parts are injection molded plastic
  • Well and underframe are diecast
  • Intricate and accurate detail includes a free-standing vertical brakewheel
  • These cars ride at the prototypically-correct height, with the well a mere ten scale inches above the rails
  • The model rides on Atlas' Barber S-2 friction-bearing truck frames fitted with Fox Valley Models 28" low-profile wheelsets, and features body-mounted Micro-Trains #2004 couplers
  • Operation of this model over curved trackage of less than 10-inch radius is not recommended






$36.95 US