August 2009 Media Pack
N & Z Scale
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Billboard Car #1
These wood-sheathed box cars are painted brown and feature a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ poster promoting their shows. This poster dates back to the 1920s.
N Scale #047 00 401...$25.95
Z Scale #515 00 601...$29.95
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United States Army
Road Number USAX G-10
This 50 troop kitchen car is painted olive drab with silver roof. The logo and lettering are white and the It was built by American Car & Foundry as part of a series delivered between 1943 and 1946, serviced in 1954, and runs on Allied Full Cushion trucks. USAX G-10 is one of three hospital kitchen cars converted to guard cars at Fort Holabird in Baltimore, MD. The car transported and housed security detachments guarding shipments of hazardous material, and served on ammunition trains between the Naval Ammunition Depot at Hawthorne, NV and the Naval Weapons Station at Port Chicago.
#118 00 040...$20.35
CSX Transportation®
Road Number CSXT 900400
This bay window caboose is painted CSX blue and gray with aluminum roof, yellow ends and black band along the bottom on the sides. The herald and lettering are blue. The caboose’s rebuild date is 1986 and runs on Swing-Motion trucks. CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986 on as a renaming of the Seaboard System Railroad and Chessie System, Inc. into one entity. In the public announcement, it was said that “CSX is singularly appropriate. C for Chessie, S for Seaboard, and X, the multiplication symbol, means that together we are so much more.” The T had to be added to use CSXT as a reporting mark since company initials that end in X typically are for rental railcars.
#130 00 040...$29.65
Burlington Northern
Road Number BN 281441
This 40’ Hy-Cube box car with sliding door is painted green with white Burlington Northern logo and lettering. It was built in November 1967, serviced in June 1975 and runs on Barber® Roller Bearing trucks. Mini Hy-Cubes were specifically designed for use in large appliance service and were assigned to specific appliance corporations: Whirlpool, Admiral, Philco, etc. This lot of 50 cars is fitted with twin Equipco load dividers. The mini hi-cube phase was short lived, and was quickly overshadowed by longer and bigger cars.
#101 00 090...$22.55
Koppers Company
Road Numbers KGCX 121 / 138
NEW 50' Fixed End Gondola w/ Straight Sides and NEW Coke Container Load
These 50’ steel side 14-panel gondolas with fixed ends and straight sides are painted white with black ends. The Koppers Coke herald is red with black and red logo, side lettering is black and end lettering is white. They were built in September 1929, serviced in March 1956 and run on Bettendorf trucks. Koppers Chemicals is a global chemical and materials company based in Pennsylvania. It specializes in manufacturing carbon chemicals from coal tar.
#105 00 711...$23.95
#105 00 712...$23.95
Harry S Truman Presidential Car
Road Number 1945-1953
This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #12 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of our 33rd president, Harry S Truman. During his administration the United States became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
#074 00 112...$23.95
Canadian Pacific
Road Number CP 80986
This 50’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is painted green with black and white logo and lettering. It was built in April 1967 and runs on Barber® Roller Bearing trucks. This car bears the pre-Multi-Mark era Evergreen Tree paint scheme signifying newsprint as the principal commodity. #80986 is from a 250-car fleet, with 215 cars remaining in service according to the 1981 ORER.
#038 00 020...$20.90
Denver & Rio Grande Western®
Road Number DRGW 105023
This 89’ 4” TOFC flat car carrying a trailer load is painted red with white logo and lettering. It was built in September 1978 by American Car & Foundry, serviced in 1982, and runs on Barber® Roller Bearing trucks. This car was originally built for the Providence and Worchester. The Maine Central acquired the 46-car fleet for a while until 1982 when the Denver and Rio Grande Western® secured the flats. Painted in P&W red, the sides were re-lettered for the DRGW in white. The TOFCs, equipped with hitches and bridge plates, were in service through the late 80s with a carrying capacity of 150,000 pounds.
#071 00 530...$39.65
Southern Pacific®
Road Number SP 132
This 30’ box car with sliding doors is painted box car red with white logo and lettering. It was built during the period 1888-1906, serviced in 1957 and runs on Barber Coleman Arch Bar trucks. SP 132 was originally built for the Oregonian Railroad in the 1880s. The Oregonian Railroad was acquired by the Southern Pacific® and the car eventually received this paint post-1930. Today, the car runs with the ‘Slim Princess’ at the Laws Railroad Museum & Historical Site located near Bishop, CA.
#800 00 190...$18.40
Southern Pacific® is a registered trademark of Union Pacific Railroad
Oregon State Car
Road Number OR 1859
This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #14 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Western Meadowlark and Oregon Grape, Oregon’s official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Oregon is in the background. The road number 1859 represents the year the ‘Beaver State’ was admitted into the union.
#502 00 514...$22.95
Baltimore & Ohio® / Chesapeake & Ohio®
Road Numbers B&O 3547 / C&O 3568
These GP-35 powered locomotives are painted blue with yellow side rails, lettering and logos. They were built in 1964 (B&O) and 1974 (C&O) by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. The EMD GP-35 is a 4-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1963 and January 1966. Power was provided by an EMD 567D3A 16-cylinder engine which generated 2500 horsepower.
#981 01 200...$175.95
#981 01 210...$175.95
Koppers Company
Road Numbers KPCX 2105 / 2129
These 39’ single dome tank cars are painted black with red, black and white logo and white and orange lettering. They were built in November 1943, serviced in January 1952 and run on Bettendorf trucks. Kopper’s tank cars were used to haul coal tar, the base material for the five main chemical products: Coal pitch essential for steel and aluminum production; carbon black for rubber vulcanization; creosote for wood treatment; and naphthalene and phthalic anhydride for plastics and polyester.
#530 00 271...$22.60
#530 00 272...$22.60
Canadian National
Road Number CN 428651
NEW Paper Grain Doors
Door Inserts ome decorated but not installed.
This 40’ standard box car with sliding door is painted brown with white “wet noodle” herald and yellow wheat sheaf logo. It was built in October 1945, rebuilt in April 1985 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Identified for grain service, a yellow wheat sheaf symbol has been stenciled along with the “Repaired by…” message in both English and French. This car was selected during January of 1980 for grain service refurbishing and renumbering and has been fitted with paper or wooden grain door. Car is stenciled with the U-1 symbol.
#500 00 590...$26.85
Pennsylvania Railroad Coach Car
Road Number 4214
Comes Fully Decorated
The Pennsy was offically chartered by the Pennsylvania State Legislature on April 13,1846 to build a railroad from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh as a replacement for the troubled canal system between the two cities. From the start it was a race against time to raise $3,000,000 and have at least 30 miles of track under contract by July 30, 1847; otherwise the B&O Railroad, seeking to extend it’s trackage into Pennsylvania, would be granted activation. Pennsy met the challenge and went on to develop what became known as “The Standard Railroad of the World.” Pennsylvania’s keystone logo would come to symbolize the leader in America’s transportation system. Unfortunately, after World War II, the Pennsylvania lost passengers and freight revenue due to recessions, mine closures and alternate methods of transportation. On February 1, 1968, the Pennsy merged with New York Central to form Penn Central. Today, most of it’s track is part of Conrail.
Coach Car #552 00 060...$26.60
Southern Pacific®
Road Number SP 2212
Comes Fully Decorated
Southern Pacific was founded as a land holding company in 1865, forming part of the Central Pacific Railroad empire. By 1900, SP had grown into a major railroad system which incorporated many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad. The Southern Pacific had noticeable social impact along its route; some towns prospered because of it and it founded a number of important hospitals in, among other places, San Francisco and Tucson. The takeover of Southern Pacific by Rio Grande Industries, along with the addition of the SPCSL route from Chicago to St. Louis, swelled the combined D&RGW/SP/SSW system. While the Cotton Belt is the most famous of Southern Pacific’s subsidiaries, SP owned many others like the Northwestern Pacific, Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico, and a variety of narrow gauge routes. The Southern Pacific subsequently was taken over by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1996 following years of financial problems.
Coach Car #552 00 070...$26.60
Southern Pacific is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Road Number None
This F7 dummy B unit locomotive is painted blue with black band and yellow stripes. It was built in 1949 by the Electro-
Motive Division of General Motors. The EMD F7 was a 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) Diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1949 and December 1953 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) and General Motors Diesel (GMD). 1,483 cabless booster or B-units were built. Many F7s remained in service for decades, as railroads found them economical to operate and maintain.
Coach Car #980 12 130...$45.95
Colorado & Southern
Road Number C&S 1101
This 30’ composite frame wood reefer is painted box car red with yellow sides. It bears a circular black and white logo,
black lettering. It was built in February 1909, serviced in March 1935 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Originally built for
the Colorado and Southern as series 500-519 in 1909, these cars were repainted and renumbered in 1912 and received
this circular trademark paint scheme beginning in 1927. Three cars in this series, 1113, 1116 and 1108 were sold to Rio
Grande Southern in 1938. By 1940, another version of the Leadville arrangement of the circular trademark theme was
introduced and cars began to be repainted, though few of this series remained in service by that time.
850 00 010...$39.45