ScaleTrains HO Trinity 7500 high-cube boxcar

ScaleTrains HO Trinity 7500 high-cube boxcar

Scale: HO (1:87.1)

Price: $54.99

Manufacturer: ScaleTrains, 4901 Old Tasso Road NE Cleveland, TN 37312; 844-987-2467; scaletrains.com

ScaleTrains Trinity 7500 high-cube boxcar features:

• 36” machined metal wheels with .110” wheel tread
• ASF Motion Control 110-ton trucks with raised foundry data; rotating Timken three-sided bearing caps (blue or black as appropriate); separate, truck-mounted brake beams; and side bearing detail
• Body-mounted, die-cast metal semi-scale Type E lower shelf couplers with long shanks
• Factory-applied wire train line pipe with brackets
• Minimum radius, 22”; recommended radius, 24”
• Operates on codes 70, 83, and 100 rail
• Printed reporting marks and road number on truck sideframes
• Semi-scale coupler boxes
• With or without yellow FRA-224 stripes as appropriate

Release date: Available now

Road names: Double 8-foot plug doors — TTX Co. (12 road numbers), Canadian National with DWC reporting marks, General American Marks Co. with Laurinburg & Southern marks (with English door data in five numbers, with English and Spanish door data in one number), and Union Pacific. Single 12-foot plug doors — Atlantic & Western (as-delivered in two numbers and in-service with faded paint and paint patches in one number) and BNSF Ry. (post-2005 herald in one number; as-delivered with circle-cross herald in two numbers; and in-service with circle-cross herald, faded paint, and paint patches in three numbers). Six numbers per scheme unless noted.

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