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GACX 53'6" Wood Express Reefer Cars
Features:
- Authentically detailed units, ready-to-roll
out of the box.
- Factory painted / Factory applied hand
grabs
- Metal Kadee knuckle couplers
Express refrigerator cars were
used to carry perishable crops like berries and melons to distant markets at
passenger train speeds before spoilage could occur. Normally, they were operated
at the head end of passenger trains, which required that the cars meet the same
design standards as steel postal cars in terms of high speed trucks, passenger
car brake systems, air, steam and signal lines, passenger car buffers as well as
passenger paint and lettering schemes.
The General American 53'-6" wood
express refrigerator cars were the most common cars used in the U.S. during the
30's, 40's and 50's, and were painted and lettered for a variety of Class I
railroads. And these are the cars that BLI will be offering in the Fall of 2004
in single packs and double packs. The car numbers will all be different in the
two packages. All hand grabs will be applied and painted at the factory.
**Specifications on this page subject to change.
