Athearn Ready To Roll GATX TankTrain Freight Car 1
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N-SCALE FREIGHT CAR FEATURES: All-new tooling first time ever in N-scale, Fully-assembled and ready-to-run out of the box, Two GATX classes represented: 282-series and 486-series, Accurately painted and printed for prototypical realism, Correct walkways, manways, and load/unload pluper series, Highly-detailed, injection-molded body, Finely detailed walkways, Photo etched metal walkways and end platforms, Correct transfer plumbing per prototype series and end (A-end or B-end), Wire safety rails and end handrails, Full underbody plumbing and rigging, Printed placards, Detailed, soft vinyl transfer hoses that bend as the car negotiates curves, Separately applied brake wheel, Cars available as end unit sets and as individual intermediate units, Screw mounted trucks, 100-ton roller-bearing trucks with scale 36" machined metal wheels, McHenry operating knuckle couplers, Convenient packs of 3 makes doing prototypical 12 unit set simple, Weighted for trouble free operation, Minimum radius: 11", Operates on Code 50, and 80 rail, Recommended radius: 15", Body-mounted, McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers, 282-series era: 1977 to present, Multiple road numbers, 486-series era: 1982 to present, Window packaging for easy viewing, plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage
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