N MASTER 40' PS-1 BOX CAR C&NW

N MASTER 40' PS-1 BOX CAR CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN [PATCH RI] #701540

Features:
Body Mounted Accumate Couplers
Barber S-2A 50-ton Trucks with Metal Wheels
Separately Applied Ladders
Etched Metal Roof Walk
10' or 12' Stiffener Roof per prototype
Ajax and Miner Brake Wheels
Prototype Info:
The 40' Boxcar is widely known as one of the most popular freight cars used by railroads as they transitioned from steam to diesel. In particular the Pullman Standard or PS-1 design was one of the most popular and was widely used by North American railroads. These boxcars were built beginning in 1947 and share the same basic design, with certain elements such as door size, door style or roof type varying among the different railroads and production years. When production of these cars ceased in 1963, over 100,000 had been produced.

This run of the N scale PS-1 features 8’ door openings which enabled larger bulk freight and merchandise to be loaded and unloaded more efficiently. Most roads fielded large quantities of these cars (C&EI for example had about 400 on the roster from one 1959 order alone!) and some would order separate groups of cars dedicated to specialty service (such as the 25 cars of lot 848-B produced for New York Central Pacemaker Service). Other roads would update these cars in-house, such as the Seaboard Air Line which added roof insulation and repainted several groups of cars with a heat-reflective silver paint scheme (advertising one of their named passenger trains) specifically to carry beer shipments. This versatile box car could be found across the country in many types of service over their long lifetimes.

About Atlas N Scale Rolling Stock
Atlas N scale rolling stock represents the pinnacle of decades of research and development, resulting in some of the most prototypically accurate model railroad products on the market today and includes a wide array of car types, from box cars, to passenger cars to cabooses. In addition to being intricately detailed, Atlas N scale rolling stock features crisp painting and lettering, perfectly recreating the colorful paint schemes found on their real-world counterparts. All Atlas N scale rolling stock is ready to run right out of the box, so you can go straight from the hobby store to using the model in your fleet.