Since the late 1990s, Trinity has built over 10,000 60-foot Plate F High-Cube boxcars – cars that one can find in nearly every manifest freight train crossing North America today.  Within these many cars are dozens of variations in door sizes, roofs, underframes and side post arrangements.

Available now from ScaleTrains are multiple variants from this Trinity 7500 boxcar family in its premium-level Rivet Counter line for HO scale.  Each car features railroad, road number and era-specific details including five different side post variations, two horizontal stiffener designs, seven different doors, five unique end styles, five underframe variations, ten different roof patterns and two truck options depending upon the prototype. Roadnames in this first production include Union Pacific (high reporting marks), TTX/TBOX, GATX (blue/LRS), Canadian National/DWC, BNSF (wedge logo, brown), BNSF (circle-cross), Atlantic & Western (ATW/patched) and ATW (freight car red).  $54.99 each. Available now from your favorite dealer or direct.

ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Rd NE, Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; www.scaletrains.com

ScaleTrains’ Rivet Counter Trinity BNSF 7500 represents BNSF series 760770 to 760969, built in February 2002. This car offers six left and right side posts, a single center-mounted horizontal side stiffener, a single 12-foot wide plug door, and atop the roof – nine 4-rib center panels and 2-rib end panels.  All cars feature a full ensemble of air brake equipment on the underframe, factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers semi-scale coupler boxes with metal knuckle couplers and much more.

ScaleTrains’ Rivet Counter Trinity 7500 boxcar for TTX is a finely crafted replica of TTXs TBOX series 672500-673049 built between August and December of 2018.  Notable spotting features on these cars include seven vertical posts to either side of the doors, three horizontal stiffeners along the side of the car, double 8-foot wide plug doors, 3 over 2 non-terminating ends, and more.