GREAT NORTHERN " EMPIRE RAILWAY EXPRESS " 50ft STEEL REEFER

Description: WALTHERS HO Scale Ready-To-Run 50 foot STEEL EXPRESS REEFER RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY 50' Railway Express Agency Riveted Steel Express Reefer (Ready to Run) -- Great Northern Out-Of-ProductionDISCONTINUED By the Manufacturer Each model features a highly detailed one-piece body with separately applied details including ice hatches, ladders and roofwalks. Separate wire grab irons are included for more realistic detail. A complete underbody captures all of the special brake gear needed for passenger service, as well as the bunker run-off chutes. High-speed trucks with metal wheelsets and working knuckle couplers round out the models. Rushing priority perishables between stations, express reefers were found at the front of the fastest passenger runs as well as on specialized mail and express trains. And when some highly perishable crops such as strawberries were in season, solid trains of express reefers were run, often as second sections of the most important passenger trains. Walthers is proud to roll out an Express Reefer that's right at home with your flagship streamliners. Based on a series of cars first ordered in 1957, the prototypes were some of the last ice-cooled reefers constructed and were also unusual for the time in that they were built with riveted instead of welded sides. Each model features a highly detailed one-piece body with separately applied details including ice hatches, ladders and roofwalks. Separate wire grab irons are included for more realistic detail. A complete underbody captures all of the special brake gear needed for passenger service, as well as the bunker run-off chutes. High-speed trucks with metal wheelsets and working knuckle couplers round out the models. Car Features:Accurately scaled from engineering drawingsScaled Dimensions & Rivet DetailComplete End, Roof & Underbody DetailingFactory - Installed Side Door Hand RailsIce Hatches and LaddersBunker run off chutes Correct Trucks with RP-25 Metal WheelsCrisp detailed, realistic lettering, matched to prototype photographs Realistic satin paint finish, great for weatheringStandard Draft gear box Detailed engineering plastic truck sideframes Low-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axles No lubrication required Machined-Metal Wheels Magneticaly operated, body mounted couplers Added Weight for optimum tracking Detailed truck side frames Low-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axles, no lubrication required SHIPPING:We do combine shipping on multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you. THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED Item The item is NEW in the original box from old stock PERSONAL INVENTORY: Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them. STORE INVENTORY: Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS. I will be Liquidating the remaining stock. I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing them out. Please see the photos we take actual photos of each item Most of these items are New in the box removed only to take photos of them.

Price: 89.95 USD

Location: Van, Texas

End Time: 2024-12-06T13:27:44.000Z

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