and Pickering Lumber. Undecorated and painted but unlettered
models will also be available. The MSRP will be $199.95.
Beginning in the late
1960s, American Car
& Foundry began
building 60’ boxcars
specifically to provide more efficient service between automo-
bile assembly plants and auto parts suppliers. Both single and
double door versions of the auto parts cars were built with
many continuing in service today. Atlas plans to deliver N scale
ready-to-run versions of the car in the second quarter of 2015.
Cars with single doors will be decorated for Conrail, Cotton
Belt, Norfolk & Western, and Western Maryland. Double-door
versions of the auto parts car will be available for Detroit,
Toledo & Ironton; Canadian National; Canadian Pacific (CPAA);
and Chesapeake & Ohio. The MSRP will be $19.95. An undeco-
rated version will list at $14.95.
Also due from Atlas
in the second quar-
ter of next year is a
Louisville & Nashville
70-ton triple-bay
open hopper car. The N scale ready-to-run model is based on a
prototype Pullman-Standard built beginning in the mid-1950s.
Atlas will offer the
same model deco-
rated for Alaska
Railroad, Louisville &
Nashville, and
Seaboard Systems. It will represent a nearly identical car
Pullman-Standard introduced in the mid- 60s. P-S used the
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