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The Moon
Road Name: Lunar Neighbor

These 60’ excess height box cars with modified sides are black with brown sides and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Earth’s single natural satellite, the Moon is the only other astronomical body humans have visited. Although only 1.2% of Earth’s mass, its gravitation force is responsible for ocean tides. The Moon’s apparent size in the sky is similar to the Sun’s, allowing for rare total solar eclipses.

#102 00 840...$36.95...With Interior Light
#102 02 804...$27.95...Without Interior Light

#499 45 910...$7.95...Magnetic Wand - Sold Separately

Chesapeake & Ohio®
Road Number 212

This 70’ heavyweight horse car is painted in the tri-color scheme and runs on 6-wheel passenger car trucks. Built as a parlor car in 1912 and converted in the early 1940s into a horse express car, they soon found themselves handling more express mail than horses. By the mid-1950s, they were used almost exclusively in mail service.

#149 00 410...$33.90

Solar Series Caboose
Road Name: Milky Way Galaxy

This 36’ riveted steel caboose with offset cupola is black with decorated sides and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Our solar system is just one of 250 billion star systems in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way is a barred spiral type about 100,000 light years in diameter, and its name describes the galaxy’s appearance from earth.

#100 00 810...$29.95

Bee Hive Corn Syrup
Road Number SLAX 49104

This 39’ single dome tank car is yellow with blue belly and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in October 1949, and serviced in 1961, this car belonged to a series of 8 cars painted similarly for the St. Lawrence Starch Company of Port Credit, Ontario. Used to transport corn syrup, they could be found in service between Port Credit and numerous candy and food companies in eastern Canada through the early 1980s.

#065 00 136...$29.95

Southern
Road Number 4200

This 70’ heavyweight horse car is Pullman green with gold lettering and runs on 6-wheel passenger car trucks. This car was originally built in 1926 as a horse car, and later repurposed as a baggage car in Railway Express Agency service. Baggage agents preferred working with converted ex. Horse cars because the third door on each side facilitated loading and unloading.

#149 00 330...$29.95

Chicago & North Western®
Road Number 10385

This 31’ bay window caboose is yellow with green roof and runs on Bettendorf Swing Motion trucks, it carries the slogan “We Originated---Safety First!” C&NW was founded in 1865 and grew into a Class 1 railroad with more than 12,000 miles of track in the late 1960s, and merged into Union Pacific in 1995.

#130 00 280...$35.95

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Road Number ATSF 11971

This 50’ standard box car with 10’ single door and no roofwalk with short ladders is red with black ends and white lettering and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1959 by ATSF at the Topeka shops, in a series of 256 cars, this boxcar was used for general service. It was equipped with SL loaders and ATSF Shock Control floating underframe to minimize damage from in-train forces. They were repainted in the mid-1970s and by 1990 the entire series had been retired from revenue service.

#180 00 240...$29.80

Southern Pacific®
Road Number SP 90600

This 40’ standard box car with single door is brown with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In the early 20th century there was an increasing need to transport dry goods in bulk by rail. To meet this growing demand, many railroads took excess boxcars and converted them into enclosed hoppers. Hatches were installed on the roof to facilitate loading of granulated loads, such as phosphate, dry concrete, or in this case, granulated sugar.

#020 00 247...$27.95

Southern
Road Number 26922

This 40’ standard box car with single door is brown with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In the early 20th century there was an increasing need to transport dry goods in bulk by rail. To meet this growing demand, many railroads took excess boxcars and converted them into enclosed hoppers. Hatches were installed on the roof to facilitate loading of granulated loads, such as phosphate, dry concrete, or granulated sugar. This car carried powdered clay.

#020 00 257...$27.95

Desert Camo Humvee® Vehicle 2-pack

#499 45 953...$34.95

Woodland Camo Humvee® Vehicle 2-pack

#499 45 954...$34.95

Undec Humvee® Vehicle 2-pack

#499 45 950...$18.95

Southern Gondola 4-Pack
Road Numbers 60514, 60750, 61118, 61349

50’ Steel Side, 14 Panel, Fixed End Gondola, Fishbelly Sides

#993 00 176…$99.95

MICRO-TRAINS - Z SCALE NEW RELEASES

Bee Hive Corn Syrup
Road Number SLAX 49104

This 39’ single dome tank car is is yellow with blue belly and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in October 1949, and serviced in 1961, this car belonged to a series of 8 cars painted similarly for the St. Lawrence Starch Company, of Port Credit, Ontario. Used to transport corn syrup, they could be found in service between Port Credit and numerous candy and food companies in eastern Canada through the early 1980s.

#530 00 490...$29.95

MID-MONTH RELEASES

Union Pacific®
Road Numbers UP 499090/499194

These 50’ standard box cars with 8’ plug door, no roofwalk and short ladders are yellow with red lettering and run on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1957, it belonged to Class BI-50-2 and was used for temperature-critical commodities and food products. It was repainted several times and finally into the yellow and red “We can handle it” paint scheme of the mid-1970s and was used in revenue through the late 1980s before being retired.

#181 00 141...$29.95
#181 00 142...$29.95

Chessie/B&O®
Road Number B&O 602259

This 3-bay covered hopper with elongated hatches is yellow with blue lettering and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1967, this car was designed around the ACF 4,600 cubic-foot design. Used mostly for grain transport, they were commonly seen in unit trains destined for ports on the east coast. Repainted into Chessie colors in the mid-1970s, these cars continued in revenue service through the 1990s.

#094 00 660...$30.90

CSX® 3-pack
60’ Rib Side High Cube Box Car with Double Plug Doors
Road Numbers 173565, 173572, 173576

Built by National Steel Car in the early 2000s, these 286,000-pound capacity, 60’ rib-side high-cube boxcars feature double-plug doors and belong to a fragmented series totaling 7 cars of this type. These cars have a 7234 cubic-foot capacity and can be found in trains hauling general freight all-across North America both on CSXT routes and others.

#993 01 860…$119.95

CSX® w/Coil Cover 4-pack
Road Numbers 475235, 475239, 475274, 475275

#993 00 173…$109.95

TTX Weathered Wreck Recovery Pack

TTX used some of their flat cars for general purpose bulk loading of construction equipment, industrial machinery, or in this case, wrecked railcars. These cars had deck mounted pedestals and specialized retainment devices that allow railroads to safely load, transport, and unload damaged railcars and their trucks, increasing the likelihood of repair or component salvage.

#993 02 130…$74.95

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Amtrak 50th Anniversary Car
Smooth-Side Modernized Business Car

Founded in 1971, Amtrak is the largest North American passenger rail network serving more than 500 destinations in 46 states across over 600 miles of track. Amtrak is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2021. In recognition of this achievement, Micro-Trains’ modernized business car features Amtrak’s first livery, known as Phase I, gracing one side and the current Phase VI livery on the reverse.

#144 00 740...$31.45

CP 140th Anniversary Car
50’ Standard Box Car

Incorporated in 1881, Canadian Pacific Railway is one of the largest Class 1 Railroads in Canada, owning over 12,000 miles of track in Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific celebrated its 140th Anniversary in February 2021. This 50’ plug-door boxcar features three historic CP freight car paint schemes and heralds from the past and present.

#181 00 160...$27.95

BNSF 25th Anniversary Car
60’ Excess Height Box Car

On September 22, 1995, Burlington Northern merged with Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe to form one of the largest Class 1 Railroads in North America, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, known after 2005 simply as BNSF Railway. In 2020, BNSF Railway celebrated its 25th Anniversary, painting ten ES44 locomotives in a commemorative paint scheme. This 60’ high-cube boxcar features a locomotive-inspired paint scheme with legacy locomotive colors on each end.

#104 00 080...$27.95

Police Humvee® Vehicle 2-pack

#499 45 955…$34.95