March 2010 Media Pack
Frisco
Road Number SL-SF 15097
This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is painted orange with black and white logo and black lettering. The car was rebuilt in October 1967 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Between August and October 1967, the Frisco leased 100 rebuilt boxcars from the Chicago Freight Car Co. and numbered them into the 15000-15099 series. During the 1960s, the Frisco used colors to designate a specific usage or equipment; the red-orange paint applied to this series signified assignment to Kellogg.
#074 00 090...$16.50
New York Central
Road Number NYC 501218 / 501226
With Bulk Concrete Containers
These 50’ gondolas with 14 panels, straight sides and fixed ends are painted black with white logo and lettering. They were built in August 1927, serviced in December 1937, and run on Bettendorf trucks. Cars from this NYC series were dedicated to carrying removable containers. A.A.R. designations for such cars did not exist until 1949, when they became ‘LG’ cars, defined as “an open top car equipped to handle one or more demountable containers for the transportation of commodities not under refrigeration.”
#105 00 721...$18.10
#105 00 722...$18.10
Ontario Northern
Road Number ONT 7444
This 40’ standard box car with single door and roofwalk is painted green with white herald and lettering, and a white door with black lettering. It was built in December 1948 by National Steel Car of Hamilton, Ontario, and serviced in April 1973. It runs on Bettendorf trucks. The car displays the ‘O’ superimposed over the ‘N’ and was called the ‘progressive look.’ Others called it the ‘mark of Zorro.’ The logo was later replaced by the triple lightening logo.
#020 00 836...$17.10
Burlington Northern
Road Number BN 456559
This Evans 100 ton three bay covered hopper is painted green with white BN logo and lettering. It was built in 1971 and runs on Barber® Roller Bearing trucks. This car is one of a series of hoppers built for the recently formed Burlington Northern Railroad. Covered grain hoppers were a significant part of the first decade of Burlington Northern’s newly assembled freight car fleet. Grain is the primary commodity of these hoppers.
#099 00 090...$19.15
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Billboard Car #7
This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® poster. This 1930s poster touts the “marvelously skillful performance” of a talented company of seals. Seal acts were always an audience favorite— barking, balancing and playing in the band, they have the center ring in this brilliantly bright billing.
#047 00 407...$25.95
Monon
This 40’ standard box car with single door and roofwalk is painted brown with white logo and lettering on the car. The door is aluminum. The car was built in June 1947 by Pullman-Standard, serviced in 1966, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Fifteen cars from this series were randomly chosen and upgraded for appliance shipping. They were stenciled left of the door: ‘When empty return to Appliance Park, KY via reverse route.’ They would load at General Electric’s Appliance Park in Kentucky for destination throughout the country.
#020 00 770...$15.50
Barack Obama Presidential Car
Road Number 2009
This 40’ standard box car with plug door and no roofwalk is car #19 of a 44-car series representing each of the presidents of the United States. It bears the portrait of our 44th president, Barack Obama. The car comes with a commemorative pin replicated from this era. Campaigning on a message of hope and change, Barack Obama is the first member of a non-white ethnicity to become President.
#074 00 119...$23.95
Reading
Road Number RDG 80337
with Red Coal Load
This 33’ twin bay hopper with rib sides and red coal load is painted black with white ‘Reading’ herald and red, white and black anthracite logo. It was built in May 1941 and runs on Bettendorf trucks. The dyed coal load, in this case red, was used as a marketing tool as well as freight delivery benefits; the dye helped keep coal dust down and acted as a lubricant to help the coal flow through the delivery chutes.
#056 00 180...$22.80
Maine State Car
Road Number ME 1820
This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #21 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Chickadee and White Pine Cone & Tassel, Maine’s official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Maine is in the background. The road number 1820 represents the year the ‘Pine Tree State’ was admitted into the union.
#502 00 521...$22.95
Union Pacific®
Road Numbers 3725 / 3747
These SD40-2 powered locomotives are painted gray and yellow with red stripes and large red, white and blue Union Pacific® shield logo. Lettering is red. Built in 1980 the Union Pacific® by EMD, these locos are part of build order 796297. 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 (now Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.) between January 1972 and February 1986; 3,957 examples were built, and every class 1 railroad in North America has operated this locomotive.
#970 01 081...$195.95
#970 01 082...$195.95
Union Pacific® is a registered tradmark of the Union Pacific Railroad
Great Northern
Road Numbers GN 161151 / 161158
with Timber & Generator Loads
This 60’ flat car is painted Glacier Green with white log and lettering. It was built in June 1965 by Thrall Car Manufacturing and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the United States. Formed in 1889, Great Northern was privately funded; it was one of the few transcontinental railroads to avoid receivership following the Panic of 1893. In 1970 the Great Northern, together with the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, merged to form the Burlington Northern Railroad, today part of the BNSF Railway.
#524 00 081...$20.50
#524 00 082...$20.50
Penn Central
Road Number PC 125962
This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted green with large ‘worms in love’ logo and ‘Penn Central’ in white. Lettering is in white. It was built in March 1951 by Pressed Steel Car, serviced in August 1968, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. The Penn Central Transportation Company was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was added to the merger at the insistence of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on January 1, 1969. The headquarters of the merged railroad was in Philadelphia.
#503 00 070...$21.80
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™
Billboard Car #7
This wood-sheathed car is painted brown and features a colorful representation of an actual Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® poster. This 1930s poster touts the “marvelously skillful performance” of a talented company of seals. Seal acts were always an audience favorite— barking, balancing and playing in the band, they have the center ring in this brilliantly bright billing.
#515 00 607..$29.95
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted metallic gold with red, white and black logo and black lettering. It was built in November 1953, serviced in December 1966, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In 1966, the CB&Q was awarded the Railway Progress Institute’s “Golden Freight Car Award” for promotion of railroad freight traffic. At the time, the Q’s Havelock, Nebraska shop was rebuilding class XM-32 boxcars; to commemorate the award, the railroad painted one day’s output (eight cars) in this scheme, including 61417.
#503 00 080..$21.80
White Pass & Yukon
Road Number WP&YR 496
This 30’ flat car is painted black with white logo and lettering. It was built in May 1969 by National Steel Car of Hamilton, Ontario, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. These particular flat cars are used to carry freight containers, allowing cargo to be transported by ship, rail or truck without the requiring repacking of the cargo. White Pass owned a container ship and began utilizing container transport as early as 1956. The White Pass and Yukon Route is a Canadian and U.S. Class II narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, capital of Canada’s Yukon Territory.
#855 00 070...$31.30