Product Overview
This highly detailed model is based on the 40' wood refrigerator cars built by Pullman for the Northern Refrigerator Car Co. in 1930. With its rooftop ice hatches, USRA-style fish belly underframe and vertical brake shaft, it is representative of the thousands of similar cars that were built during the "Billboard" era of American railroads.
Features:
- Highly detailed ABS body
- Separately-applied ladders, grab irons and stirrups
- Die-cast metal stirrups
- Separately-applied door hinges, handles and latches
- Opening doors
- Separately-applied opening roof hatches, hinges and latches
- Die-cast underframe
- Separately applied brake system and vertical brake shaft
- Separately-applied coupler lift bars
- 40-ton Bettendorf-style, die-cast sprung trucks with metal wheels
- Die-cast articulated couplers
- Minimum diameter curve: O-31
