Micro-Trains is
selling Union
Pacific 40’ box
cars with double
doors equipped
with Allied Full-
Cushion trucks.
The paint
scheme and
trucks indicates the cars were used in express service.
This N scale
Canadian
National 50’
boxcar with plug
doors and no
running board is
based on a prototype built by National Steel in 1964.
Micro-Trains
based this 34’
wood-sheathed
caboose on a
car built for
the New York
Central in 1921.
The prototype was in service until the caboose era ended in
the mid-1980s.
Additional N scale cars released by Micro-Trains include a
10,153 gallon 39’ single-dome tank car decorated for Shell; a
four-pack of unique Chessie Safety Cabooses painted white,
dark blue, orange, and light green with each scheme featur-
ing the Chessie Cat logo and a “Green Cross for Safety” slogan;
a 50’ Baltimore & Ohio 14-panel, steel gondola with fishbelly
sides and fixed ends; a 50’ olive drab flat car loaded with a 40’
container decorated with WWII-era B-29 Superfortress nose
News column - 17
MRH-Sep 2014
