N Scale April

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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Road Number CB&Q 61417

This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted gold with red, black and white Burlington Route logo. Lettering is in black and it runs on black 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, so to commemorate the award, the railroad painted one day’s output (eight cars) in this scheme.

#024 00 250...$16.70

Southern Pacific®
Road Number SP 151264 / 151273
With Scrap Wood Loads

These 40’ drop bottom gondolas are painted brown and display the black & white ‘Southern Pacific Lines’ herald and white ‘SP’ in Roman style lettering. Stencil lettering is white and it runs on brown Bettendorf trucks. The Bethlehem Steel Company built this group of class G-50-22 drop bottom gondolas in the fall of 1948 and early 1949. They were delivered new to Southern Pacific and numbered into series #151000-152649. The gondolas have the “improved” dreadnaught ends and Miner brakewheel.

#083 00 081...$21.40
#083 00 082...$21.40

SP® is a registered trademark of the Union Pacific Railroad

Koppers Company
Road Number KPCX 2105

This black 39’ single dome tank car carries the “KOPPERS” red, black & white logo and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. Lettering is in white, with orange reporting marks and road number. It was used by Koppers to haul coal tar and comes from series 2100-2129. Built during the 40s it is non-pressurized, has a capacity weight of 80,000 lbs and carries a gallon capacity of 8,000.

#065 00 670...$21.40

Pennsylvania Railroad
Road Number PRR 85940
With Paper Grain Door

This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted freight car red with white logo and lettering and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. It was built in May 1951 by Pressed Car Steel, serviced in September 1967, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. It was built as part of a 1000-car series delivered to the Pennsylvania in 1950-1951; when serviced in 1967 it received the plain-keystone paint scheme. This car was used for grain service and was fitted with paper or wooden grain door inserts.

#024 00 180...$19.90

Canadian Pacific
Road Number CP 285611

This plug door box car with tall ladders and no roof walk is painted aluminum with red script writing and logo. It has black lettering and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. This car was among 15 built for Canadian Pacific as mechanical refrigerator cars starting in 1963. These cars could be seen behind the CP’s Mandarin Orange Express. The red lettering was introduced on freight cars in the early 1960s and later replaced by CP Rail lettering.

#074 00 040...$19.30