PREORDER Bluford Shops N 86821 86′ Double Door Boxcar, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe #36711

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.Santa Fe received this group from Pullman Standard in 1967. They were initially assigned for loading at a Ford stamping plant on the New York Central at Monroe, Michigan. Many years later, Santa Fe would grow to regret the AUTO PARTS lettering for security reasons and began to patch them out.