PREORDER Bluford Shops N 86735 86′ Double Door Boxcar, Conrail #238234

Description

Bluford Shops is bringing back our popular 86 Double Door Auto Parts Boxcars. These will include our recently improved draft gear, magnetically operating couplers and metal wheels. The minimum radius is 11 . They also include separate wire grab irons and etched metal platforms on the ends. The draft gear is mounted to the body but has a spring centered swing action that both resists string-lining the train pulling through curves and resists the trucks climbing the rail during shoving moves.These super-size boxcars were originally built to carry high-value low-density automobile parts such as body panels and window glass to final assembly plants. Cars were acquired in wide ranging pools including several plants and the railroads that connected them. It was common for cars to run for months or years without traveling on their home road s rails.Not surprisingly perhaps, Conrail had the largest fleet of auto parts boxcars and this group of relatively early repaints featured the largest Conrail logo used on any equipment on the system. The placement of the CONRAIL name and the arrangement of the road number and data varied from car to car and this practice is replicated on the 3 road numbers presented here.