PROTOTYPE HISTORY:

GATX’s North American tank car fleet consists of more than 59,000 cars with nearly 70 different types serving the chemical, petroleum, transportation, agriculture, food, mineral, and plastics markets. Major car groupings includegeneral service and high pressure, and cars used to carry various types of acids and other specialty products. Customer logos can occassionally be found on GATX leased cars. These cars can be found interchanged all over North America on all major and short line railroads

FEATURES:

• All models are representative of prototypical paint schemes
• 70-ton or 100-ton Roller Bearing trucks w/ 36” wheels per prototype
• Operates on all popular brands of track
• Fully-assembled and ready to run out of the box
• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
• Separately applied brake wheel and ladders
• Machined metal wheels
• Weighted for trouble free operation
• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Window packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage
• Replacement parts available
• Minimum radius: 10”