July 2008 Media Pack
Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Road Numbers SP&S 22408 / 22410
These 40' drop bottom gondolas with side extensions are painted box car red with
large white 'SP&S' letters and white stenciling. They carry wood chip loads and run
on Bettendorf trucks. The Pressed Steel Car Company originally built this group of
gondolas in 1948 for the D&RGW. The 1950s saw the rapid development of the
paper industry in the Pacific Northwest. As a result, the SP&S began purchasing
the second-hand drop bottom gondolas and adding wood side extensions to
increase the capacity. They were acquired and converted between August 1964
and 1965, and numbered into the 22400-22474 series.
#084 00 011...$22.40
#084 00 012...$22.40
Pan-Am / Shippers Car Line
Road Number SHPX 66
This three-dome tank car is painted black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. It was built by American Car
& Foundry in May 1930 for Shippers Car Line—one of a four-car order in Lot #1137. Shippers leased to the Mexican
Petroleum Corporation. The three-dome tank cars were designed to carry small quantities of multiple products, such as several
grades of motor oil, gasoline or chemicals to be shipped in one car. American Car & Foundry began production of three-dome
tank cars in 1930 and continued through 1946.
#066 00 030...$22.70
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio
Road Number GM&O 60173
This 33' twin-bay hopper with rib sides is painted black with white herald and lettering. It was built in March 1944, serviced
in May 1964, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. This car was originally part of lot 2637, a 750-car build for the Alton as a war
emergency composite hopper. The cars were converted to all steel in the 1950s.
#056 00 290...$18.80
Modern Log Car w/ Uprights
This body style is typical of the log cars used on standard gauge railroads across the United States. This release carries a
square timber load.
#114 00 070...$17.75
Chesapeake & Ohio®
Road Number C&O 21294
This 50' standard box car with Youngstown door wears two of the experimental paint schemes, each side with MOW gray and
yellow bands. The right side of the car bears the C&O logo; the other side with the Chessie logo. This car, fourth of six in the
'Cameo Car Series,' was built in May 1956 by Pullman Standard and runs on roller bearing trucks. All of the Cameo Series car
designs feature varying widths of Yellow striping along with monograms and the recently adopted “Futura Demi-Bold” font.
#031 00 074...$34.25
* Pre-orders were accepted for this item in October 2007.
USS Constitution Navy Series #12
Road Number IX-21
USS Constitution, known as “Old Ironsides,” is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States
Navy. Named after the United States Constitution, she is the oldest commissioned ship afloat in the world. The
Constitution was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and was
launched in 1797. Joshua Humphreys designed them to be the Navy’s capital ships and so Constitution and her
sisters were larger and more heavily armed than the standard frigates of the period.
#038 00 412...$18.95
Denver & Rio Grande Western®
Road Number D&RGW 14975
This black 100-ton 3-bay open hopper with coal load proudly displays the ‘Rio Grande’ name in white speed
lettering and runs on black Barber® roller bearing trucks. This car, built by Bethlehem Steel Company August of
1966, was delivered in black with white lettering on the sides and ends. This Class HT hopper was seen working
through the mid-eighties.
#108 00 060...$16.95
Denver & Rio Grande Western® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Canadian Pacific
Road Number CP 230103
This box car red 40’ outside braced box car with single door proudly displays the ‘Canadian Pacific’ name in white
gothic lettering and runs on black arch bar trucks. When built in March of 1921, this box car had special hopper
doors fabricated into the floor for grain service. The hoppers could be covered on the inside of the car to allow service
as an ordinary box car. The hopper doors were removed during the 1930s. Canadian Car & Foundry, National Steel
Car, Eastern Car Company and Canadian Pacific’s own shops built 9,000 of these cars between 1920 and 1921.
#028 00 120...$12.75
No new releases for the month of July
Z Scale U.S. Army Set #2
#994 01 030...$249.95
Pre-orders were accepted for this item in January 2008
Coal Tower Kit
Features:
• Micro-thin plywood construction
• Coal bucket lift
• Positional chute
• Textured asphalt roof
• Easy construction
• Assembly instructions included
#799 90 908…$49.95
Kit comes unassembled and unpainted.
Illinois State Car
Road Number IL 1818
This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #1 of a 50-car series each
of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Cardinal and Violet, Illinois’ official
state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Illinois is in the background.
The road number 1818 represents the year ‘The Prairie State’ was admitted
into the union.
#502 00 501...$22.95
Pre-orders were accepted for this item in December 2007.
Guilford Rail System
Road Numbers 52 / 54
These grey GP-9 has orange stripes and a large white circle ‘G’ logos. They were built in December of 1957 by the
Electro-Motive Division of General Motors as part of build #7546 for Boston & Maine, which was purchased by
Guilford Transportation Industries in 1983. Many of these locos were repainted during the 1990s to the Guilford
Rail System paint scheme, still using the Springfield Terminal reporting marks.
#982 01 081...$185.95
#982 01 082...$185.95
Lehigh Valley
Road Numbers LV 62008 / 62023
These 40’ box cars with single doors are painted box car red with black and white herald and white lettering.
They were built by Pullman Standard in June 1947 and run on Bettendorf trucks. This series of cars was the first
delivered for one of the most successful freight car designs—the PS-1 box car. Over 76,000 PS-1s were built by
Pullman Standard between 1947 and 1968.
#500 00 551...$19.65
#500 00 552...$19.65
Modern Log Car
This body style is typical of the log cars used on standard gauge railroads across the United States. This release
carries a square timber load.
#538 00 070...$17.80
Burlington Northern
Road Numbers BN 630843 / 630849
These 60’ flat cars are painted BN green with white ‘Burlington Northern’ lettering and run on black roller bearing
trucks. Cars from series 630800-630849 were originally from CB&Q’s series 94000-94049 built at their Havelock
Shops in 1955 and 1956.
#524 00 041...$19.85
#524 00 042...$19.85
No new releases for the month of July