ClassOneModelWorks.com has announced a second production of its 86-foot boxcars. Modeled after a family of prototypes built by the Thrall Car Company, COMW’s HO offerings cover the vast gamut of cars produced by Thrall beginning in 1968. The cars in this run cover “Type 4” double-plug door cars with End-of-Car Cushioning (EOCC) devices, and quad-door “Type 7” Thrall cars equipped with either EOCC or full cushion underframe details.
Each car comes with a host of separately applied details including standoff lower door tracks, wire-form handrails and grab irons, durable brass stirrup steps, etched and formed metal crossover platforms, a full complement of brake rigging, flexible rubber train line hoses, metal knuckle couplers and either 70-ton or 100-ton trucks with machined metal wheelsets where appropriate.
Road names for Thrall “Type 4” double-plug door cars in this release include:
- Santa Fe with “Q” quality logo(1990s mineral brown, EOCC)
- Chicago & North Western (brown, as-delivered, EOCC)
- Chicago & North Western (Zito Yellow, EOCC)
- Norfolk Southern (brown)
- Norfolk Southern (gray with replacement door)
- Norfolk & Western (brown – two lettering variations)
- New York Central (green, as-delivered)
- Union Pacific (Automated Railway, EOCC)
- Union Pacific (yellow, “We can handle it”)
- Western Pacific (brown, as-delivered)
Road names for Thrall “Type 7” Quad-door cars in this release include:
- B&O/Chessie System (blue doors, cushion underframe)
- Burlington (Chinese Red/aluminum doors, as-delivered, cushion underframe)
- Chicago & North Western (brown, as-delivered, cushion underframe)
- Conrail (brown, large logo, 3 variations, cushion underframe)
- Missouri Pacific (brown, eagle, cushion underframe)
- Norfolk Southern (brown, cushion underframe)
- Norfolk & Western (black, block NW logo, EOCC)
- Rock Island (brown/aluminum doors, EOCC)
- Southern (brown/aluminum doors, as-delivered, cushion underframe)
- Union Pacific (black lettering, cushion underframe)
Coming Soon. Each car will retail for $59.99 each. Multiple road numbers per livery where appropriate. Reserve now direct.
ClassOneModelWorks.com, 8610 NW 107th Terrace, Kansas City, MO, 64153
This Quad-door car emblazoned with the 1970s era logo of the Norfolk & Western Railroad is typical of these ginormous 10,000 cubic foot capacity boxcars that dutifully traveled between automotive suppliers in the Upper Midwest to automotive assembly plants located all over the USA. Quad door cars were preferred by General Motors, but as years passed, their assignments and wanderings became more frequent to other shippers and consignees.
NS 487324 wears a one-of-a-kind gray livery after it was repainted. Unique upon unique like its prototype, NS 487324 features a pair of red replacement plug doors on this side only, while the other side has gray doors.
Southern Railway 42379 represents one of the Thrall-built Quad-door 86’ boxcars for the Southern Railway. Note the see-through etched metal crossover platform at the end of this car with realistic side profile and separate “trombone-style” cut levers to accommodate the extended draft gear echoing the end-of-car-cushioned draft gear of its prototype.
Each Thrall 86’ Boxcar from ClassOneModelWorks features a full complement of multimedia underbody details including full brake rigging with wire form piping and retaining valve levers, rubber air hoses, sturdy brass stirrup steps and extended cushion draft gear with metal knuckle couplers.