Athearn N ATH3865 NACC 50' Boxcar Alumax NADX #50187

Description

Athearn N ATH3865 NACC 50' Boxcar Alumax NADX #50187

MODEL FEATURES:

• Three road numbers
• Etched metal stirrup steps
• Detailed, molded underframe
• Pullman Standard or Superior plug doors
• Pullman Standard or Stanray (Superior) roof, to match prototype
• N-scale 70 ton trucks
• Machined 33” metal wheels
• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Weighted for optimum performance
• Minimum radius: 9 ¾”

PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:
The 1960s was a period of development that would set the course of railroading as we see it today. The North American Car Corporation designed and built a 50’ outside post, insulated, plug door box car which proved to be a vision of developments to come. Several railroads rostered this car with most of them either purchased by or leased to private shippers. The NACC cars were frequently decorated in complex, colorful paint schemes. When the NACC cars were built, general leasing, billboard paint schemes and modern freight handling techniques were still at least a decade in the future.