Athearn Ready to Roll HO Scale: 53' Wabash Duraplate Trailer - Burlington

MODEL FEATURES:

• Separately applied tractor-trailer, landing gear assembly, and mud flaps
• Sliding rear bogie
• Two or five hole painted wheels
• Rubber tires
• Sand shoes applied with removable glue
• Upgraded former A-Line tooling
• Fully-assembled and ready to use out of the box
• Highly-detailed, injection-molded body
• Painted and printed for realistic decoration
• Window packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage

PROTOTYPE HISTORY:

Once the US Department of Transportation declaring that all “national networks” (US and Interstate highways) and “all other networks within ten miles” must allow the operation of 53-foot semitrailers without requiring special permits for length, the industry was quick to adopt the now-ubiquitous 53-foot vans. One of the first 53’ vans was the Wabash Plate Trailer in the late 1990s.