ready-to-run models including this BNSF 89’ tri-level closed
auto rack car. Bethlehem delivered the prototype in 1975. It
was rebuilt and repainted in 2014 with BNSF’s current logo as
seen here on the model.
What makes
Micro-Trains’ 50’
14-panel steel
gondola different
is the removable
cover that resembles a standard boxcar roof. The prototype
was built in 1964 for steel mill service. Note “Cut Sheet Car”
stenciled on the side.
Although shown
here as a pair,
Micro-Trains is
selling these 50’
box cars with
double
Youngstown
doors singly.
They are based
on prototypes SP built in their Sacramento Shops in 1955. The
wider opening made them suitable for rapid loading and
unloading by fork lifts.
According to
Micro-Trains,
this N scale
ready-to-run 39’
single-dome
tank car, includ-
ing its decorat-
ing scheme, is
based on a group of 25 cars AC&F built in 1923. The cars were
ordered by Pan American Petroleum & Transportation Co., a
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