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Athearn - HO Scale - 40 ft Pickle Car - Bloch & Guggenheimer (BAGX) #204 - Brown w/White Lettering (SKU 140-14579)

Available On: April 1, 2017

A pickle car is a specialized type of tank car designed to carry pickles. This version of the car has four visible wooden tanks and is roofed. Pickles which are preserved in salt brine are loaded through hatches in the roof. These cars were in use from the  1880's to the early to mid 1900's in most of North America, but in some cases, they remained in use all the way into the 1970's.

Features:

  • Fully assembled and ready for your layout
  • Highly detailed turnbuckles
  • Machined metal wheels
  • Weighted for trouble free operation
  • Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track
  • Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
  • Replacement parts available
  • Minimum radius: 15"
  • Era: 1940's to the 1960's






$27.98 US