Rapido Trains Inc. - HO Scale - 40 ft 12 panel Boxcar - Great Northern (GN) - Chinese Red SlantedLettering - Late improved dreadnaught ends - 6 pack (SKU 224-155006)
Available On: October 1, 2023
Road Numbers Included in 6 pack: 5091, 5150, 5200, 5231, 5362, 5415
Random Number for singles * Numbers are not guaranteed for your preference with single cars
The Great Northern Railway built many of its boxcars in its own company shops in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Included in these were two groups of boxcars in 1953 and 1955. These cars had six-foot doors, diagonal panel roof and twelve-panel riveted sides with straight sills. Between the two groups nearly 1000 cars were built.
The first group, series 21450-21939 built in 1953, utilized the then current early improved dreadnaught end. The later group, series 5000-5499 built in 1955, were built with the updated late improved dreadnaught end – the difference between the two being the main rib shape.
Both groups were delivered in the Great Northern’s mineral brown scheme with a large goat herald. Over the years cars from these groups were repainted into the various colorful schemes that the GN developed through the late 1950s and into the 1960s.
Rapido Trains’s new model of the GN 12-panel boxcars feature:
Accurate 12-panel sides with straight side sill
Early or late improved dreadnaught ends
Diagonal panel roofs
Accurate welded underframes
Correct 6’ Youngstown doors
Free rolling ASF Ride-Control trucks with metal wheelsets
Rapido semi-scale couplers
Accurate paint and lettering
Multiple road numbers per scheme.
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