PROTOTYPE
AND BACKGROUND INFO: |
GATXs
North American tank car fleet consists of more than 59,000 cars with nearly 70
different types serving the chemical, petroleum, transportation, agriculture,
food, mineral, and plastics markets. Major car groupings include general service
and high pressure, and cars used to carry various types of acids and other specialty
products. Customer logos can occassionally be found on GATX leased cars. These
cars can be found interchanged all over North America on all major and short line
railroads. |
FEATURES: |
- All
models are representative of prototypical paint schemes
- 70-ton
or 100-ton Roller Bearing trucks w/ 33 or 36 wheels per prototype
- Operates on
all popular brands of track
- Fully-assembled
and ready to run out of the box
- Highly-detailed,
injection-molded body
- Separately
applied brake wheel and ladders
- Machined
metal wheels
- Weighted
for trouble free operation
- Body
mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
- Window
packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model
for convenient storage
- Replacement
parts available
- Minimum
radius: 10
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PRIMED
FOR GRIME MODELS FEATURE: |
- Duplicated look and feel
of In Service equipment; Tattered and Torn just like the
real thing
- Faded
base colors matched to the prototype
- Patches
applied and shaped per road number matching each corresponding side to the prototype
- Perfect starting
point for adding grime and rust
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