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40' Despatch Stock Car

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

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy

#MTL-520 00 090   CB&Q   • Released 2006   $19.65 retail ea. • $19.65 #520 00 090 #52145 Includes:   • Doors   • Brake Wheel   • Micro Trains Line Trucks

Great Northern w/ Sheep Load

#MTL-520 00 121   Great Northern   • Released May 2022   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #520 00 121 #56337 #520 00 122 #56392 • w/ Sheep Load   Built in 1942 as a wood-sheathed boxcar, these cars were converted into stock cars with Bettendorf trucks in 1969 and some were repainted into the Big Sky Blue paint scheme. These stock cars were primarily used for cattle, but also carried sheep and other livestock. 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.

Norfolk & Western

#MTL-520 00 151   Norfolk & Western   • Released May 2008   $18.85 retail ea. • $18.85 #520 00 151 #33134 #520 00 152 #33150 Includes:   • Doors   • Brake Wheel   • Micro Trains Line Trucks

Pennsylvania w/ Cattle Load

#MTL-520 00 183   Pennsylvania   • Released April 2022   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #520 00 183 #134082 #520 00 184 #135117 • w/ Cattle Load   These K-7A Class stock cars with Bettendorf trucks were used to transport cows, sheep and other livestock from stockyards to slaughterhouses. Pennsylvania Railroad was one of the largest east-coast railroads with more than 11,000 miles of track at the height of operations.

Union Pacific w/ Sheep Load

#MTL-520 00 193   Union Pacific   • Released May 2022   $28.95 retail ea. • $23.16 #520 00 193 #48017D #520 00 194 #48436D • w/ Sheep Load   Built in 1951 at Omaha for Union Pacific, these stock cars with Bettendorf trucks were primarily used for cattle, but also carried sheep and other livestock. Union Pacific continues to operate today as one of the largest Class 1 railroads in North America with over 32,000 miles of track.

Baltimore & Ohio w/ Cattle Load

#MTL-520 00 203   Baltimore & Ohio   • Released April 2022   $25.95 retail ea. #520 00 203 #11137 #520 00 204 #11142 • w/ Cattle Load   Built in April 1915, these 35-foot stock cars with Archbar trucks were used to transport cows, sheep and other livestock from stockyards to slaughterhouses. Baltimore & Ohio was the oldest common carrier railroad in the United States, founded in 1830. After numerous mergers, it became a part of CSX Transportation where its heritage lives on today.

Southern Pacific w/ Cattle Load

#MTL-520 00 211   Southern Pacific   • Released May 2022   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #520 00 211 #73371 #520 00 212 #73408 • w/ Cattle Load   These stock cars with Bettendorf trucks were built in 1917 and rebuilt by Southern Pacific in 1950. Southern Pacific was a Class 1 railroad from 1865 until 1996, when it was absorbed by Union Pacific after falling on hard times financially in the 1970s and 1980s.

Western Pacific

#MTL-520 00 221   Western Pacific   • Released March 2017   $22.90 retail ea. • $18.32 #520 00 221 #WP 75894 #520 00 222 #WP 76031 These 40' despatch stock cars are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Beginning in 1927, Western Pacific began to convert approximately four hundred 1916 era 40' boxcars into single-deck stock cars. Many cars from this rebuild program continued to serve in a MOW capacity even into the 1970s.

Northern Pacific

#MTL-520 00 231   Northern Pacific   • Released May 2017   $22.90 retail ea. • $18.32 #520 00 231 #81760 #520 00 232 #81778 These 40' despatch stock cars are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. This 81750 – 81999 series stock car was heavily used across the Midwest and Northern states in the early part of the 20th century. As livestock demand continued into the 1960s, NP eventually modernized many of their old wood stock cars allowing them to serve into the 1970s.

Rock Island • RI

#MTL-520 00 251   Rock Island   • Released June 2019   $23.90 retail ea. • $19.12 #520 00 251 #R.I. 75010 #520 00 252 #R.I. 75015 These 40’ despatch stock cars are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Rock Island had over 3,000 stock cars in the early 1930s; the height of cattle transport by rail. As other shipping methods gained popularity in the 1940s and 50s, railroad stock cars were quickly sidelined. By the late 1960s, the stock car count on RI had dropped by 90%.

Swift Live Stock Express

#MTL-520 00 261   Swift Live Stock   • Released October 2018   $22.90 retail ea. #520 00 261 #S.L.S.X. 72221 #520 00 262 #S.L.S.X. 72243 These 40' despatch stock cars are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Swift & Company was founded in 1875 by Gustavus Swift in Chicago, IL, and soon acquired the majority interest in a large Texas stockyard. In order to move cattle and processed meats, Swift pioneered several technologies including upgrades to stock cars and the refrigerated boxcar.

Missouri, Kansas & Texas w/ Sheep Load

#MTL-520 00 263   MKT   • Released April 2022   $30.95 retail ea. • $24.76 #520 00 263 #47049 #520 00 264 #47126 • w/ Sheep Load   • Built for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, these 35-foot stock cars with Bettendorf trucks were used to transport cows, sheep and other livestock from stockyards to slaughterhouses. The MKT railroad was founded in 1923 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is known for its bright and vibrant paint schemes.

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