Description
Delivered in April 1975, Pacific Car & Foundry built 17 of the appliance service 7633 cubic foot boxcars for Western Pacific numbering 3151 thru 3167. The WP ordered these for GE appliance service and were equipped with Airpak bulkheads. Later the cars had the bulkheads removed they were renumbered from 3171 to 3187. Many of these cars served well into the Union Pacific and could been seen riding the rails through the 2010s.
All-new model
- Era: 1975 to Today
- Precision micro-tooled
- Fully assembled (with exception to the kit)
- Multiple Road Numbers
- Designed, engineered and tooled in the United States!
- Extraordinarily accurate artwork
- ExactRail’s 70-Ton Barber S-2 Trucks
- CNC-machined 33" metal wheel sets
- Kadee #156 couplers
- Fully detailed body mounted draft box
- Numerous hand-applied details, including: separately applied air hoses and grab irons!
- Separately applied door tracks and door bars!
- Wire coupler cut levers
- Drop down brake rigging, bell crank, brake appliances and brake rods!
