These 60’ excess height box cars with modified sides are black with brown sides and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. A dwarf planet is classified as a massive object that is round, orbits the Sun, but is too small to clear its orbital path. There are five known dwarf planets, the most famous and controversial being Pluto, which is actually smaller than Earth’s Moon. It has five moons and is 1/3 water ice.
#499 45 910...$7.95...Magnetic Wand - Sold Separately
Denver & Rio Grande Western®
Road Number 60844
DRGW® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.
This 50’ standard box car with 8’ plug door, no roofwalk and short ladders has orange sides and black letteirng and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1964 by PC&F, this 90-ton capacity double-door cushioned underframe car was used in coiled tin plate service. It was late demoted to a general service car, serving through the 1980s.
#181 00 150...$29.80
Illinois Central Gulf
Road Number ICG 480069
This 40’ hy-cube box car with single door is orange with black lettering and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Built by Pullman in 1967 for East Coast appliance service, this 4,900 cubic-foot capacity boxcar featured DF-2 belt rails and a cushioned underframe, and was assigned to Penn Central’s Evansville, Indiana home base facility.
#101 00 150...$31.90
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Cotton Belt® ‘Ootton Beet’
Road Number ICG 480069
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This 3-bay covered hopper, with elongated hatches is grey with black lettering and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built by American Car and Foundry in 1971 for St. Louis Southwestern, this car was used to transport lightweight granular and powdered commodities like grain, sugar and other food-grade materials.
#094 44 670...$32.90
Hubinger Company
Road Number NATX 18156
SWEET LIQUID SERIES #2
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957, this uninsulated tank car was owned by NATX and leased to the Hubinger Company of Keokuk, Iowa, and was used for corn syrup loading. The J.C. Hubinger Brothers Company was founded in 1887 and was a producer of starch.
#065 00 146...$29.95
Denver & Rio Grande Western®
Road Number 632
DRGW® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad.
This RPO heavyweight passenger car is Pullman green with gold lettering and runs on 4-wheel Commonweath trucks. Built by Pullman in 1913, this D&RGW baggage-express car frequently saw service in the Yampa Valley region of Colorado. D&RGW was formed in 1870 and operated the highest mainline railroad in the United States through the Colorado Rockies at an altitude of 10,240 feet.
#140 00 390...$29.95
Chesapeake & Ohio®
Road Number 109
This RPO heavyweight passenger car is painted in the tri-color scheme and runs on 6-wheel passenger car trucks. Built in the mid-1910s by Pullman, this car was used exclusively in Post Office service. It continued to serve for C&O through the 1960s before being retired.
#140 00 410..$33.90
Frisco
Road Number SL-SF 8410
This 50’ standard box car with 8’ plug door, no roofwalk, and short ladders is yellow with black lettering and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1965 for the St. Louis San-Francisco Railway this car features DF-2 loaders, nailable floors and lading anchor points. It was assigned for paper roll service, servicing mills along the Gulf Coast.
#181 00 180...$25.90
Penn Central
Road Number PC 515321
This 50’ steel side, 14 panel, fixed end gondola with fishbelly sides is green with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in the 1950s for Pennsylvania Railroad, it was rebuilt and repainted in 1967 and again serviced in 1975, now in the Penn Central paint scheme. It was used in general service, as well as aggregates, such as crushed rock.
#105 00 350...$24.90
Norfolk & Western
Road Number N&W 516420
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Arch Bar trucks. Built in the early 1920s, this TM-Class single-dome tank car was purchased second-hand in 1927 from the Mexican Petroleum Corporation and used exclusively in Maintenance of Way service for Norfolk & Western. With a capacity of 10,206 gallons, it was used to store lube oil for locomotives before being retired in the late 1950s.
#065 00 266...$26.90
Great Northern
Road Number GN 72878
Reprint
This 50’ steel side, 15 panel, fixed end gondola with fishbelly sides is red with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957, this car was designed to transport structural steel and other large loads and had a 70-ton capacity. Great Northern was a Class 1 Railroad founded in 1881 and eventually was merged with Northern Pacific and others to form Burlington Northern Railroad in 1970.
#105 00 541...$24.90
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Hubinger Company
Road Number NATX 18156
SWEET LIQUID SERIES #2
This 39’ single dome tank car is black with white lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957, this uninsulated tank car was owned by NATX and leased to the Hubinger Company of Keokuk, Iowa, and was used for corn syrup loading. The J.C. Hubinger Brothers Company was founded in 1887 and was a producer of starch.
#530 00 500...$29.95
Frisco
Road Numbers SLSF 85238/85266
Pre-orders were taken for these in September 2020
These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1966, they were used for high density powered and granular commodities, like cement and sand. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, or “Frisco,” was founded in 1876 and was absorbed by Burlington Northern in 1980.
#531 00 341...$25.95
#531 00 342...$25.95
Milwaukee Road
Road Numbers MILW 99619/99633
Pre-orders were taken for these in September 2020
These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1954, these 70-ton PS2 hopper were used to transport cement and other high density powered and granular commodities. Serviced in the mid-1960s, and the new “billboard scheme” applied, they were used until the 1980s.
#531 00 361...$25.95
#531 00 362...$25.95
Penn Central
Road Numbers PC 877145/877242
Pre-orders were taken for these in September 2020
These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built for Pennsylvania Railroad in 1955 this car belonged to class H34b. Repainted in 1968 after the formation of Penn Central, the car lasted another 20 years before being scrapped.
#531 00 351...$25.95
#531 00 352...$25.95
MID-MONTH RELEASES
DODX ‘Red’ 3-pack with Humvee® Vehicles
Road Numbers UP 499090/499194
*Humvee vehicles come undecorated and unassembled.
Great Northern built nearly 1000 boxcars between 1944 and 1947 to help meet postwar consumer commerce demand, as well as requirements of national defense. Cars in the 44025 – 44999 series were painted in a famous orange, green and black scheme, and soon became the “face of Great Northern” in many publicity photos of the time.
#993 00 820…$219.95
NEW PRE-ORDERS
89’ DODX 2-Pack with 8 Humvee® Vehicles
Accepting Pre-Orders through April 30th
COMING SEPTEMBER 2021
*Humvee vehicles come undecorated and unassembled.
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