KATO

READY-TO_RUN

HO Scale 

 CORRUGATED BUSINESS Car

With full Interior

LED LIGHTING INSTALLED

   

Interior seating & details

LED LIGHTING INSTALLED

Marker Lights Lighting LEDs

Tail Light Lighting LEDs

Exteriors are Highly Detailed

Underbody is Highly Detailed

Out - Of - Production

Lettered for the:

SANTA FE

Featuring the 

" TOPEKA " with PAINT SCHEME 

It is hard to match the excitement and beauty of a long, sleek passenger train speeding down the rails. KATO's HO scale streamlined passenger cars will bring exactly the right, realistic look to your passenger consists.

Using an intricately detailed, yet durable ABS body atop smooth rolling trucks results in a lightweight car that won't bog down a locomotive struggling to pull heavy passenger cars. 

What's more, each HO passenger car features detailed car interiors and electrical wheel pick-ups for overhead, lighting (sold separately) for a realistic and authentic appearance.

HISTORY:

A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals. A private car could be added to the make-up of a train or pulled by a private locomotive, providing privacy for its passengers.  They were used by railroad officials and dignitaries as business cars, and wealthy people for travel and entertainment, especially in the United States. They were sometimes used by politicians in "whistle stop campaigns". 

Pay cars with less opulent sleeping and dining facilities were used by a paymaster and assistants to transport and disburse cash wages to railway employees in remote locations without banking facilities.

In the late 19th century Gilded Age, wealthy people had finely appointed private cars custom-built to their specifications. Additionally many cars built by Pullman, Budd, and other companies that were originally used in common carrier service as passenger cars were later converted for use as business and private cars. 

There are various configurations, but the cars generally have an observation platform, a full kitchen, dining room, state rooms, secretary's room, an observation room, and often servant's quarters.

Railroad barons including Leland Stanford had their private cars. Abraham Lincoln disliked the ornate railroad car supplied for his service as president: he rode in it only in his coffin.  Private cars were more common in the heyday of passenger rail service and during the pre-Amtrak era (before 1971). At its peak in the early 20th century, an estimated 2,000 private cars were in use.  

In the 21st century, some private cars have survived the decades and some are used for tour rides, leasing for private events, etc. Others are on static display. A small number of private cars (along with other types of passenger cars), have been upgraded to meet current Amtrak regulations, and may be chartered by their owners for private travel attached to Amtrak trains.

Recreate the excitement of first-class passenger travel in the middle of the last century with these cars. 

UNIT FEATURES:

INTERIOR LED LIGHTING INSTALLED

Detailed Interior Seating

small details items installed

Durable ABS Intricately Detailed Bodies

Metal Wheels and Axles

Electrical pick-ups for Interior Lighting

Marker Lights Lighting installed

Tail Light Lighting installed

Detailed 4-Wheel Trucks

Authentic Paint Scheme

End-of-Car Diaphragms

Separate Metal Handrails

Detailed Car Interiors

Detailed Car Undercarriage

Kadee Couplers

Unit Measures:11 1/2" x 1 7/16" x 1 7/8"

Operates On 22" Radius Curves

The unit is highly detailed

 

THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED READY-TO-RUN 

The item is NEW in the original box from old stock 

 

 SHIPPING: 

We do combine shipping on multiple purchases.  If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. 

What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. 

If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well.  If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you.

 

THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item

The item is NEW in the original box from old stock 

 

PERSONAL INVENTORY:

Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years.   They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them.

STORE INVENTORY:

Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS.   

I will be Liquidating the remaining stock. 

I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing them out.

Please see the photos we take actual photos of each item

Most of these items are New in the box removed only to take photos of them.