Canadian National (CN) 50' Rib Side Box Car, Plug & Sliding Door, w/o Roofwalk

These cars are painted CN brown, with white lettering and moderate weathering. Two cars will feature yellow plug doors, and two will have green sliding doors.

The idea behind the Combination boxcar (plug and sliding door) is to make a versatile car that can act as either a double door boxcar or a plug door boxcars. If you were loading 8' studs in the car, you would load the car just like any other double door boxcar. But if you are loading paper, you would seal the far doors with duct tape, then load the car. The plug door closes first, then the sliding door.

 The idea is… you can use it as a box car with sliding door only, and still have flush walls where the plug doors are, to increase your usable cu ft in the car. If you have larger lading, you can open the plug doors also, for extra door width. 

 Plug doors in general, were first started for bunkerless reefers, mechanical reefers and insulated box cars. Hard to do any insulation with a sliding door. The main reason all the large box cars today have mostly plug doors, is that large sliding doors just get too hard to move. Yard workers will remember trying to open 8' sliding doors, and unless the cars were fairly new, open and closing sliding doors was a real PITA. After and car was several years old, you'd see where the door was getting all banged up from people using forklift blades to open and close the doors. 

 Plug doors run on wide runners and rollers, and are easier to move. And since the doors are out away from the car side, there is not problem when a car side is bulged out. 

Limited Run PWRS – Micro-Trains 4-car Runner Pack

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Features:

• Limited one time production run of these 4 road numbers
• Micro-Trains trucks and couplers
• Accurate painting and printing with correct road numbers for each paint scheme.
• Cars will feature moderate weathering to reflect real world appearance

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

026 90 003 Canadian National 4 Pack   NSE MTL16-186

026 91 003  CNA 553046   w/yellow door
026 92 003  CNA 553462   w/yellow door
026 93 004  CNA 553510   w/green door
026 94 004  CNA 553821   w/green door

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