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Northern Grain Loader Set |
" Grain Loading" gives away the type of cargo which these ACF Covered
Hoppers hauls on a daily basis throughout the Pacific Northwest. The cars are
painted in Glacier Green with a 54" red-black-white herald with white slant-serif
lettering. Capacity was 96 1/2 tons or 5,250 cubic feet. The inside length was
53' 3", width of 10' 7" and height of 15' 6". Road number 171250,
171275 and 171281 come from a series of 200 hoppers ordered from ACF. The Great
Northern had several hundred hoppers of various body styles earmarked for grain
use. Cars are made by Micro-Trains.
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| BNSF
Today Set |
BNSF
Today Set from InterMountain / N Scale Collector
From the cross country routes of today, we present BNSF's latest creation- "the
Swoosh Logo". The designers slanted the letters to give the classic
indication of a 'Speed Logo', and the results is a beautiful fast moving
freight. When BNSF finishes their work, all of their cars will wear this
striking new identity. To keep your railroad just as up to date, the NSC
has commissioned Intermountain Railway to produce the new paint scheme
on their 3 bay covered hoppers. They will have Micro-Trains wheels and
couplers as well as etched metal se-thru roof walk. These are absolutely
beautiful!
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N Scale Collector presents the 2005 National
Convention 5 Pack which spotlights
historic paint schemes of the Great Northern of
the late 40’s to mid 70’s. Great Northern
was anything but dull in their use of color as they
knew how to make
shippers aware of their existence by using bright colors
with special type fonts and the famous Billy Goat logo.
Even today, BNSF replicates some of these same paint
themes on their engines. The N Scale Collector together
with several N Scale organizations in California put
together the 2005 national N Scale Convention in sunny
San Diego. This set was made to commemmorate that convention.
Still available from BLW in limited quantities. |
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Car #1
This striking post WWII Great Northern 40-foot boxcar
was constructed of a steel frame with plywood sheathing.
Full corrugated steel doors were applied only after
WWII had ended. Prior to that, the doors were made
of plywood with a steel frame. Car number 10094 came
out of the St. Cloud car shops with its bright Omaha
Orange sides, black ends and roof with Pullman green
outline around the perimeter. |
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Car #2
This car has been recently repainted big sky blue and
lettered with the modern gothic style. Almost all cars
in series were painted big sky blue and had black underside
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Car #3
One of the advantages to using a 40' box car to haul
grain is the light weight of the cars when loaded with
50 tons of grain. Numerous spurs and branch lines had
light rail that heavier cars would derail on due to
weight. A majority of cars were equipped with Camel
doors, although other doors were used as replacements.
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Car #4
14% of all revenue came from hauling wheat in the 1960’s,
the highest revenue producing commodity transported by
40’ Great Northern boxcars. Covered hoppers eventually
replaced the boxcars in the mid 1970’s. This car
is painted glacier green and lettered with modern gothic
lettering which would indicate its from the transition
period from glacier green to big sky blue. |
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Car #5
Box car 2540 was one of 25 built in 1948 by Great Northern.
Identical to the 40’ steel 6’ wide door
cars built in the late 40’s, they featured 12
steel side panels, a riveted diagonal panel roof and
Timken roller bearing trucks. The 100,000 pound load
capacity were painted a Pullman green and Omaha orange
with Pullman green ‘Great Northern’ lettering,
white reporting marks and a 2-colored herald.
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