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
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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