With the increase of automobile production in the 1920s, the railroads looked to larger box cars for the transportation of the vehicles. Using the then common single-sheathed wood construction with outside steel bracing, the 50’ double-door automobile car was born. Railroads quickly found these cars to be multi-purpose and many ended up in lumber and hide service.
These cars also were quite long-lived for a wooden car with some still in service until the early 1970s.
Features:
- True scale size and details
- Unique radial roof body design
- Fishbelly underframe
- Weighted underframe
- Scale dimensions and accurate details
- Accurate painting and lettering
- Metal couplers and sprung die-cast Bettendorf trucks
- Separately-applied roof walk, ladders and brakewheel
- Either corrugated steel or wood doors as appropriate by road
- 2-rail cars have scale wheels and body-mounted couplers
- 3-rail trucks pre-drilled for Adjust-A-Coupler® system (sold separately)
- Minimum diameter curve: O-36 (3-Rail)
- Minimum radius curve: 36" (2-Rail)
With the increase of automobile production in the 1920s, the railroads looked to larger box cars for the transportation of the vehicles. Using the then common single-sheathed wood construction with outside steel bracing, the 50’ double-door automobile car was born. Railroads quickly found these cars to be multi-purpose and many ended up in lumber and hide service.
These cars also were quite long-lived for a wooden car with some still in service until the early 1970s.
Features:
- True scale size and details
- Unique radial roof body design
- Fishbelly underframe
- Weighted underframe
- Scale dimensions and accurate details
- Accurate painting and lettering
- Metal couplers and sprung die-cast Bettendorf trucks
- Separately-applied roof walk, ladders and brakewheel
- Either corrugated steel or wood doors as appropriate by road
- 2-rail cars have scale wheels and body-mounted couplers
- 3-rail trucks pre-drilled for Adjust-A-Coupler® system (sold separately)
- Minimum diameter curve: O-36 (3-Rail)
- Minimum radius curve: 36" (2-Rail)