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50' Double 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-506 00 000   Undecorated   • Color may vary from photo   $17.15 retail ea. • $13.72 #N/A #506 00 000 Only 3 Left! Includes:   • Doors   • Brake Wheel   • Micro Trains Line Trucks   • MTL Truck Mounted Couplers   • Unpainted Body

New York Central

#MTL-506 00 161   New York Central   • Released December 2007   $27.55 retail ea. • $22.04 #NYC 45335 #506 00 161 #NYC 45358 #506 00 162 • Each Boxcar has a Blue Pipe Load     • 506 00 161 has smaller pipes     • 506 00 162 has larger pipes • Painted Brown with NYC Logo and Lettering • 50 standard box cars with double sliding doors • Micro Trains Line Trucks • MTL Truck Mounted Couplers

Western Pacific

#MTL-506 00 231   Western Pacific   • Released January 2018   $27.40 retail ea. • $21.92 #WP 3003 #506 00 231 #WP 3006 #506 00 232 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are brown with aluminum lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. They were built in 1954, and belonged to series 3001-3010, and were equipped with Evans DF belt rails and Crossmember Type Loaders and were used for general service.

Canadian National

#MTL-506 00 281   Canadian National   • Released March 2014   $26.20 retail ea. • $20.96 #CN 551009 #506 00 281 #CN 551050 #506 00 282 Painted brown with white Wet Noodle logo and lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Originally built by Canadian Car & Foundry (CCF) in October and November of 1957 and numbered into series 598000-598499 auto boxcars. They were converted into general boxcars beginning in 1965 after no longer being required as auto boxcars and renumbered into series 551000-551230. Our car has a service date of October 1975.

Union Pacific

#MTL-506 00 290   Union Pacific   • Released November 2019   $24.90 retail ea. "ONE-OF-A-KIND" #U.P. 155000 #506 00 290 This 50 standard box car with double doors is synthetic red with white and yellow lettering and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1937 at Grand Island, this 50 boxcar had specific braces and racks installed to safely transport automobiles from manufacturing plants to distribution facilities. Belonging to Class A-50-14 and with a 100,000-pound capacity, this one-of-a-kind car was a test car and used through the 1950s before larger and specialty-designed auto-rack cars came into common use.

Southern Pacific

#MTL-506 00 321   Southern Pacific   • Released April 2016   $26.70 retail ea. • $21.36 #SP 210036 #506 00 321 #SP 210256 #506 00 322 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are painted brown with white lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1954 as part of series 209548-210547, these cars were designed to carry auto parts to manufacturing plants feeding the explosive demand for new vehicles during the mid 1950s. They were eventually re-designated B-50-18 and transferred to general freight carrying everything from food to wood products.

Baltimore & Ohio

#MTL-506 00 331   Baltimore & Ohio   • Released May 2016   $25.70 retail ea. #B&O 289247 #506 00 331 #B&O 289250 #506 00 332 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are painted Iron Sesqui-Oxide with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957 as part of series 289175-289251, these cars were modified to be used with belt loaders by their Washington, Indiana shops in the early 1960s.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

#MTL-506 00 341   ATSF   • Released August 2016   $24.90 retail ea. • $19.92 #ATSF 4166 #506 00 341 #ATSF 4179 #506 00 342 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are green with gold lettering and run on Roller Bearing trucks. The work horse of any passenger car train are the head end cars, and ATSF and others found standard boxcars converted for high speed service more than adequate for the job of hauling express freight.

Chesapeake & Ohio

#MTL-506 00 361   Chesapeake & Ohio   • Released January 2018   $24.90 retail ea. • $19.92 #C&O 27875 #506 00 361 #C&O 27899 #506 00 362 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are black with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in the late 1920s and refurbished in Saginaw, Michigan in 1963, this C&O double door boxcar belonged to series 27750-27999.

Canadian National

#MTL-506 00 371   Canadian National   • Released July 2018   $25.90 retail ea. • $20.72 #CN 598035 #506 00 371 #CN 598412 #506 00 372 These 50 standard box car with double doors are brown with white lettering and maple leaf logo and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in November 1957 for Canadian National and assigned to auto parts service, they were re-assigned to general service and had their specialized loading racks removed.

Union Pacific

#MTL-506 00 411   Union Pacific   • Released April 2019   $25.90 retail ea. • $20.72 #U.P. 554375 #506 00 411 #U.P. 554399 #506 00 412 These 50 standard box cars with double doors are synthetic red with yellow lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Classified by Union Pacific as an A-50-15, these automobile boxcars had a 50-ton capacity and were built without end doors. Later rebuilt and renumbered into the 554200-554399 series, these cars display the Be Specific Ship Union Pacific slogan.

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