WALTHERS

Ready-To-Run

HO Scale

This is a THRALL DOOR CAR

Lettered for:

SEABOARD COAST LINE

Featuring the " SCL" Logo and Paint scheme

Out - Of - Production

DISCONTINUED By The Manufacturer

Roadnumbers may vary and are not guaranteed

Lumber has always been difficult to ship by rail. Box cars provide protection but are hard to load and unload. Flat cars eliminate those problems, but loads have to be tarped to protect them from the weather.

 In 1967, Thrall created the All-Door Box Car. Equipped with four large doors, this provided a 25' 7.5m opening for easy handling, while loads remained completely enclosed in transit.

 Our ready-to-run cars are packed with detail and painted for a variety of private owners. Free-rolling trucks and working knuckle couplers are standard equipment.

THRALL HISTORY :

Thrall Car Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of railroad freight cars in Chicago Heights, Illinois from 1917 to 2001. The company was sold to Trinity Industries in 2001.

Company history

A.J. Thrall established the Union Wagon Company in 1916, selling used and reconditioned rail car components.  This became the Thrall Car Manufacturing Company in 1917.  By mid-century, under the leadership of Richard L. Duchossois, the company focused on building specialized freight cars, such as high-cube boxcars for auto parts, all-door boxcars for building products, gondolas, rotary-dump gondolas for coal, bulkhead flatcars and centerbeam flatcars for lumber, double-stack container cars, covered hoppers, autorack cars and single-level trailer cars.  In the 1980s, Thrall acquired five competing railcar manufacturers, including autorack builders Whitehead & Kales and Portec, and became the largest such manufacturer of these cars in the United States. In 1984, Duchossois purchased the remaining shares of the company owned by the Thrall family, and the company then operated as part of Duchossois Industries.  In the 1990s, Thrall had a production capacity of over 16,000 freight cars per year, with more than 3,000 employees.

The closely held company was sold to Trinity Industries, based in Dallas, Texas, in 2001. The company was subsequently renamed Trinity Rail Group, LLC.

Products

Thrall was mainly a freight car fabrication and assembly operation. Additional car types manufactured included boxcars and gondolas. Most cars were designed for standard gauge interchange service on AAR-approved railroads within North America. Many tri-level autoracks built by Thrall exist today, identifiable by the blue Thrall rectangle logo present on either the extreme right or left end of the car side. Cast or forged parts, such as grab irons, trucks, axles, and wheels, were purchased from suppliers from the Chicago area.

CAR FEATURES:

Grab Irons & Ladders

Accurately Scaled from engineering Drawings

Crisp, Detailed, realistic lettering

Lettering Matched to prototype photographs

RALISTIC Satin paint finish

Standard Draft gear box 

Detailed engineering plastic truck side frames

Low-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axles

No lubrication required

Machined-Metal Wheels

Magnetically operated, body mounted couplers

Added Weight for optimum tracking

THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item -- most of them are from kits

 

The item is a STORE DISPLAY / STORE LAYOUT used Item / 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.

 

 

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.