40-foot flatcar with airplane load
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $46.99
Era: Late 1960s+
Manufacturer: Athearn Trains, 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, IL 61822, 800-338-4639, athearn.com
40-foot flatcar with airplane features:
- Separate, factory-installed brake wheel
- Removable plane load (plane has spinning propeller and detachable wings)
- Machined metal RP-25 contour wheels
- Body-mounted McHenry scale couplers
- Injection-molded plastic body
- Available June 2023
Road Names: Baltimore & Ohio (black flatcar with airplane painted white, yellow, and red), Denver & Rio Grande Western (black flatcar with “Flying Grande” lettering and airplane painted Grande Gold, black, and silver), Department of Defense (green flatcar in six road numbers [two each with Air Force, Marines, and Navy airplanes]), and Union Pacific (brown flatcar with “Road of the Streamliners” slogan and airplane painted Armour Yellow, Harbor Mist Gray, and red). Two numbers per scheme unless noted.
Company Information: Athearn Trains offers model railroad equipment in N and HO scales. The company is part of Horizon Hobby and is based in Champaign, Ill.
Reproduced from Athearn news release May 2022
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