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Aurora Miniatures HO Transcona Shops boxcar

By Cody Grivno | May 23, 2025

50-foot Plate F car is based on a Canadian National prototype

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Aurora Miniatures HO Transcona Shops boxcar

Scale: HO (1:87.1)

Price: $59.99

Era: 2003 to present

Manufacturer: Aurora Miniatures North America Inc., na.auroraminiatures.com

Color photo of HO scale boxcar painted oxide red with silver roof and white graphics

Aurora Miniatures HO Transcona Shops boxcar features:

  • 10-foot wide single plug door
  • 36” metal wheelsets with RP-25 contour
  • All-new model
  • Aurora-designed 100-ton Barber roller-bearing trucks with bolster and center plate detail, brake beams, and rotating bearing caps
  • AuroraJanney scale couplers
  • Based on prototype cars built at CN’s Transcona Shops in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  • Bilingual (English and French) markings on doors and sides
  • Factory-applied handrails, door rods, and uncoupling levers
  • Four-rung end ladders
  • Injection-molded plastic body
  • Near-scale size draft-gear box with side detail
  • Train line hoses with glad hands painted silver

Release date: Available now

Road names: Canadian National (2003 with bilingual road name spelled out to left of door, two versions [one road number each]; 2003 with conspicuity dots in seven numbers; and 2004 with yellow FRA-224 stripes in nine numbers).

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