November 2009 Media Pack
Burlington
Road Number CB&Q 2322
This 60’ railway post office car is painted Pullman Green with gold herald and lettering. It was built in October 1917 by American Car & Foundry and runs on passenger trucks. The Burlington had at least 20 of these Railway Post Office cars in number series 2305-2324. Number 2322 was built by American Car & Foundry Company in October of 1917.
#140 00 030...$20.920
Mandan Creamery & Produce Co.
Road Number MCPX 2000
This 36’ wood-sheathed ice reefer with truss rod underframe is painted with reefer yellow sides and brown roof and ends. It’s lettered in black and red with black turkey silhouette. It was built in November 1927 by the Pressed Steel Car Co., serviced in April 1934 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. The Mandan Creamery & Produce Company of Mandan, ND, also leased NAC cars under its own MCPX reporting marks. MCPX 2000 was assigned to Mandan for a brief period beginning in April 1934. Billboard car side advertising was extensively used by meat packers, breweries and producers of food products 1920’s thru 1938.
#058 00 090...$24.30
Great Northern
Road Numbers GN 38773 / 38780
These 40’ standard box cars with double doors are painted Omaha Orange with Pullman Green side trim and black ends and roof. Lettering is black and Pullman Green. The pair were built in October 1947 and run on Roller Bearing trucks. This paint scheme has the 54” herald “See America First – Glacier National Park.” Upon repaintings, they received the following era-specific paint schemes: Standard post-1947 all mineral red scheme with a white stripe on each right hand door; after 1956 they received the vermillion red scheme; and in 1967 some received the “Big Sky” lettering scheme.
#023 00 311...$25.65
#023 00 312...$25.65
Penn Central
Road Numbers PC 18434
This bay window caboose is painted Penn Central green with black roof and white logo and lettering. It was built in January 1946, serviced in November 1969 and runs on Swing-Motion caboose trucks. Originating on the Southern Railroad as Southern 3126, it was acquired by Penn Central and repainted in its final PC scheme in November 1969.
#130 00 050...$25.40
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Billboard Car #4
This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ® poster. This poster depicts acrobatic and aerial acts performed by over 200 women. These acts would include extraordinary feats of balance, wonderful mid-air performances and many other agility routines.
#047 00 404...$25.95
Micro-Trains 2009 Christmas Car
Road Numbers MTL 2009
Our old friend Micro-Mouse is once again center stage, sledding down the slope on this year’s colorful Excess Height Christmas Box Car. Never one for the conventional, our daring holiday mouse has converted an old tennis shoe into a slope shredder. The holiday greeting with the Micro-Mouse signature will prove this car to be a holiday classic.
#102 00 100...$23.40
James K. Polk Presidential Car
Road Number 1845-1849
This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #15 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of our 11th president, James K. Polk. The car comes with a commemorative pin replicated from that era. Committed to geographic expansion, Polk was responsible for the second-largest expansion of the nation’s territory by securing the Oregon Territory. He then purchased 525,000 square miles in the southwest through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.
#074 00 115...$23.95
Chesapeake & Ohio®
Road Number C&O 605556
This two-bay Centerflow® covered hopper is painted yellow with dark blue sill, logo and lettering. It was built in June 1976by American Car & Foundry in Huntington, WV, and runs on Barber® Roller Bearing trucks. This ACF Center Flow® design is more compact in design than the cylindrical car style. They have a LO classification, four 30-inch round hatches and two gravity outlets, a 2700 cubic foot capacity and an interior length of 32-foot 1-inches.
#092 00 160...$27.55
CP Rail
Road Number CPI 317138
with Pipe Load
This 61’ bulkhead flat car is painted red with white logo and lettering. It was built in November 1973 by Marine Industries Limited of Sorel, Quebec, serviced in Ontario in September 1987, and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. The reporting mark ‘CPI’ indicates these cars are restricted to international service only and are not to be loaded for domestic points. The cars were leased from North American Car Company by CP Rail.
#054 00 070...$24.15
No Nn3 releases for October
Micro-Trains 2009 Christmas Car
Road Number MTL 2009
Our old friend Micro-Mouse is once again center stage, sledding down the slope on this year’s colorful Christmas Box Car. Never one for the conventional, our daring holiday mouse has converted an old tennis shoe into a slope shredder. The holiday greeting with the Micro-Mouse signature will prove this car to be a holiday classic.
#507 00 420...$24.80
Wyoming State Car
Road Number WY 1890
This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #17 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Western Meadowlark and Indian Paintbrush, Wyoming’s official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Wyoming is in the background. The road number 1890 represents the year the ‘Equality State’ was admitted into the union.
#502 00 517...$22.95
Kansas City Southern
Road Numbers 641 / 646
These SD40-2 powered locomotives are painted gray with red and white logos, yellow stripes and red lettering. They were built in 1972 as part of order 7226 for KCS. The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000 horsepower (2,240 kW) model of C-C diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division between January 1972 and February 1986; 3,957 examples were built, and every class 1 railroad in North America has operated this type of loco. The SD40-2 is one of the best-selling diesel locomotive models of all time.
#970 01 031...$185.95
#970 01 032...$185.95
Great Northern
Road Numbers GN 15460 / 15466
These 40’ standard box cars with double doors are painted vermillion red with black roofs and ends. They bear the white “Rocky” logos and are lettered in white. They were built in March 1940, serviced in April 1963 and run on Bettendorf trucks. Originally built for the Erie-Lackawanna in March 1940, they were part of the 78500-78999 and 79000-79199 series.
#501 00 131...$29.15
#501 00 132...$29.15
Trailer Train
Road Numbers TTX 90771 / 90777
with Covered Mechanical Loads
These 60’ flat cars with loads are painted brown with yellow ‘TT’ logos and white lettering. They were built in November 1975 and run on Roller Bearing trucks. TTX Company provides railcars and related freight car management services to the North American rail industry. Pooled railcars are for service in the intermodal, automotive, lumber, machinery, building materials, steel and other commodity groups where flatcars, boxcars, and gondolas are required.
#524 00 051...$21.70
#524 00 052...$21.70
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Billboard Car #4
This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ® poster. This poster depicts acrobatic and aerial acts performed by over 200 women. These acts would include extraordinary feats of balance, wonderful mid-air performances and many other agility routines.
#515 00 604...$29.95
Southern Pacific®
Road Number SP 6637
This passenger baggage car is painted dark gray with light gray lettering. It was built in December 1959 by St. Louis Car Company and runs on passenger trucks. Between December 1959 and December 1960 St. Louis Car Co. built 50 baggage cars under lot 1810.
#553 00 075...$26.60
SP is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Colorado & Southern
Road Number C&S 4527
With Steam Engine Scrap Load
This 30’ gondola with load is painted box car red with white logo and lettering. It was built in 1910 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Commonly called coal cars, they were actually used for hauling ore, scrap iron, lumber and ballast as well. The series 4498-4547, of which this car is a member, was the first group of steel-framed gondolas built by the Colorado & Southern. Many of these gondolas were later converted to flat cars and continued to be usable for several more years
860 00 060...$41.60