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Congress enacted the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and we must now note that these ARE NOT TOYS, AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 14. These products are Model Railroad Equipment and Accessories intended for use by adults.

40' PS1 Single Door Boxcar

Prototypical Features:

• Accurate printing and paint schemes you have
come to expect from Micro-Trains®
• Cast Zinc underframe for detail and durability

• Fine Details
• Truck Mounted Couplers
• Magne-Matic Knuckle Couplers

• Detailed brake wheel applied separately
• Nicely Weighted
• Jewel Case

Undecorated

#MTL-503 00 000 Undecorated
• Actual color may vary from photo
$~~15.25~~ retail ea.

#503 00 000

#N/A

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Unpainted Body
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Illinois Central Gulf

#MTL-503 00 011 ICG
• Released December 2007
$~~21.65~~ retail ea.

#503 00 011

#ICG 416108

#503 00 012

#ICG 416108

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

CP Rail

#MTL-503 00 021 CP Rail
• Released April 2008
$~~27.25~~ retail ea.

#503 00 021

#503 00 022

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Missouri Pacific

#MTL-503 00 031 Missouri Pacific
• Released June 2008
$~~17.65~~ retail ea.

#503 00 031

#MP 123392

#503 00 032

#MP 123406

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Rock Island "The Rock"

#MTL-503 00 041 Rock Island
• Released December 2008
$~~22.60~~ retail ea.

#503 00 041

#RI 57605

#503 00 042

#RI 57607

These 40 standard box cars with single doors and no roofwalks are painted sky blue with black and white logos and black lettering. They were built in December 1951, serviced in June 1975 and run on Bettendorf trucks. In June 1975, to improve the Rock Island image, 736 cars were re-built by USRE (United States Railway Manufacturing Co.) and painted into the new ROCK Sky Blue paint scheme.

Merry Christmas 2008

#MTL-503 00 050 Merry Christmas '08
• Released November 2008
$~~23.25~~ retail ea.

#503 00 050

#MTL 2008

After many years of hiding in the background on Micro-Trains holiday cars, our old friend Micro-Mouse is now center stage on this year s colorful 40 Hy-Cube Christmas Car. With gold lettering, snowflakes, a festive red door and a special signature from Micro-Mouse, this car celebrates his long awaited return.

Chicago, Burlington & Quincey "CB&Q"

#MTL-503 00 061 Burlington
• Released July 2009
$~~21.20~~ retail ea.

#503 00 061

#34236

#503 00 062

#34238

These 40 standard box cars with single sliding doors and no roofwalks are painted green with white logos and lettering. They were built in June 1945, serviced in August 1969 and run on Bettendorf trucks. When this series of box cars entered service for CB&Q, all were painted in the pre-merger Cascade Green paint scheme. The plan was to add the word NORTHERN below the BURLINGTON, but by the time the merger was consummated, the font had changed to a thinner style, so these cars never received the full merger name.

Penn Central

#MTL-503 00 070 Penn Central
• Released March 2010
$~~21.80~~ retail ea.

#503 00 070

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Chicago, Burlington & Quincey

#MTL-503 00 080 CB&Q
• Released March 2010
$~~21.80~~ retail ea.

#503 00 080

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Northern Pacific

#MTL-503 00 091 Northern Pacific
• Released August 2010
$~~24.85~~ retail ea.

#503 00 091

#NP 48176

#503 00 092

#NP 48181

Includes:
• Brake Wheel
• Micro Trains Line Trucks
• MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Great Northern

#MTL-503 00 101 Great Northern
• Released January 2011
$~~22.60~~ retail ea.

#503 00 101

#GN 11157

#503 00 102

#GN 11160

These 40 standard box cars with single doors and no roofwalks are painted green with white Rocky and GREAT NORTHERN heralds and white lettering. They were built in March 1948 by Pressed Steel Car Co., serviced in December 1968, and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built as part of series 10900-011374, they were originally painted mineral red. Both of these cars were later painted glacier green and lettered in the modern post-1967 gothic lettering style.

Pennsylvania RR

#MTL-503 00 110 Pennsy
• Released February 2011
$~~20.20~~ retail ea.

#503 00 110

#PRR 85953

This PRR 40 standard box car with single Superior sliding door and no roofwalk is painted freight car red with large white keystone logo and white lettering. It was built in November 1951 by Pressed Steel Car Co., serviced in August 1965, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built as part of series 85400-86399, it wears the simplified lettering arrangement applied by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1960s.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

#MTL-503 00 131 Santa Fe
• Released June 2016
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 131

#ATSF 33294

#503 00 132

#ATSF 33303

These 40 box cars with single door and no roofwalk are painted mineral brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1940 as part of series 32500-33484, ATSF became famous for the slogans they applied to the sides of their freight.

Great Northern

#MTL-503 00 141 Great Northern
• Released June 2016
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 141

#GN 11595

#503 00 142

#GN 11620

These 40 box cars with single door and no roofwalk are painted blue with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1960 as part of series 11375-11875, these bear the simplified goat logo that would be standardized until the road merged with several others to form Burlington Northern in 1970.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy

#MTL-503 00 151 CB&Q
• Released March 2017
$~~25.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 151

#CB&Q 39244

#503 00 152

#CB&Q 39282

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are red with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1953, these cars were part of 550 XM-32 boxcars overhauled by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1968 at its Havelock shops. The CB&Q had extensive trackage throughout the Midwestern United States before merging other railroads to form Burlington Northern in 1970.

Northern Pacific

#MTL-503 00 171 Northern Pacific
• Released November 2017
$~~27.80~~ retail ea.

#503 00 171

#NP 1033

#503 00 172

#NP 1034

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are green with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Following the end of WWII and the shipping of more sensitive cargos, Damage Free, or DF equipped box cars became common. These Northern Pacific DF equipped box cars were converted from general service cars in the mid-1960s.

Rock Island

#MTL-503 00 181 Rock Island
• Released December 2017
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 181

#RI 47414

#503 00 182

#RI 47440

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are green with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. These were of the 150 leased by the Rock Island in the series 47300-47499. They were built in the 1940s and then rebuilt in the 1960s to remove roofwalks and include upgraded DF2 loaders.

Union Pacific

#MTL-503 00 191 Union Pacific
• Released February 2019
$~~26.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 191

#UP 126455

#503 00 192

#UP 126462

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are brown with white lettering, and run on Roller Bearing trucks. Built by Pullman Standard in October of 1957 as part of series 126000-126524. It later had its roofwalk removed and continued in revenue service until the late 1970s before being relegated to MOW service.

Burlington Northern

#MTL-503 00 201 Burlington Northern
• Released December 2020
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 201

#BN 161805

#503 00 202

#BN 161816

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are green with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in the early 1950s for Great Northern, this car featured a single sliding door and a 3898 cubic foot capacity. In the early 1971, it received a rebuild and fresh coat of BN Green after Great Northern merged to form Burlington Northern and remained on the roster for a few more years before being retired.

Canadian National

#MTL-503 00 211 Canadian National
• Released November 2020
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#CN 428048

#503 00 211

#CN 428129

#503 00 212

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1947, these 40 box cars were used in general service. In 1980, they were rebuilt for grain service, denoted by the yellow grain symbol on the car side. Some cars in the series remained in revenue service through the mid-1990s.

C&O

#MTL-503 00 221 C&O
• Canceled
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 221
Canceled
#C&O 460029

#503 00 222
Canceled
#C&O 460184

• Sadly, there were not enough pre-orders for this boxcar.
• Be sure to get your pre-order in so these great cars don t get cancelled!

Pennsylvania

#MTL-503 00 231 Pennsylvania
• Released November 2020
$~~24.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 231

#PRR 605360

#503 00 232

#PRR 605369

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Converted from X29 box cars in 1959, these improved X29G-class cars were put into general service for Pennsylvania, but they did not have loading equipment some other upgraded cars had installed. Serviced again in 1968, these cars were then nearing the end of their revenue service lives and relegated to less important shipments.

Southern Pacific

#MTL-503 00 241 Southern Pacific
• Released November 2020
$~~25.95~~ retail ea.

#503 00 241

#SP 191473

#503 00 242

#SP 191825

These 40 standard box cars with single door and no roofwalk are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. These B-50-33-class cars were built in 1953 for Southern Pacific Railroad with a yellow door stripe, denoting lumber service. They were rebuilt in 1963, and again in the 1970s, when they were relegated to general service.

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