Athearn HO Scale: 50' AC&F Combo Door Boxcar - D&RGW

MODEL FEATURES:

• Fully-assembled and ready to run out of the box

• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body

• Separately applied side, end ladders and brake wheel

• Painted and printed for realistic decoration

• Weighted for trouble free operation

• 33” machined metal wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track

• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers

• Window packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage

• Replacement parts available

• Minimum radius: 18”

PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:

These 50’-6” box cars were built in the 1960s and featured a combination of 8’-0” Youngstown sliding and plug doors. Combination door boxcars had the advantage of being both a standard box car with sliding door, plus having a larger opening for larger loads. The plug doors provided internal flush side walls along their location next to the sliding door. Having these flush side walls increased usable cubic feet capacity in the box car. Many of these box cars came with Hydra-Cushion or Keystone type cushioned underframes, and optional “damage free (DF)” load dividers.