Rapido HO Magor 54-foot DODX flatcar
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: Single car, $59.95; three-pack, $179.85; and six-pack, $359.70
Manufacturer: Rapido Trains, 382 High St, Buffalo, NY 14204; 905-474-3314; rapidotrains.com
Rapido HO Magor 54-foot DODX flatcar features:
- Body-mounted metal knuckle couplers
- Buckeye three-axle trucks (solid bearing or retrofitted roller bearing as appropriate)
- Drawn from original blueprints, measurements, and 3D scans
- Detailed underframe, including air reservoir, brake cylinder, control valve, and related levers, rods, pipes, and brackets
- Formed metal grab irons, roping staples, stirrup steps, and uncoupling levers
- Injection-molded plastic and die-cast metal construction
- Metal vertical brake staff with plastic brake wheel
- Optional modeler-installed Automatic Car Identification plates
- Plastic air hoses with angle cock detail and glad hand painted silver
- Simulated wood deck
Release date: Available now
Road names: United States Army (as-delivered [1953+]), Amtrak (orange, three road numbers [single car and three-pack]), and Department of Defense (early patch [1960+], early repaint [1975+], late scheme [1980+], and Navy scheme [1975+]). Six numbers per scheme (single car and six-pack) unless noted. Also available painted black, green, and gray but unlettered.
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