History:

      The first auto racks had exposed sides which led to a lot of damage on new cars from vandalism and weather, so in the early 1970's the railroads started to enclose them with steel mesh. This is one of the most commonly seen cars on the railroads today. Every model railroad should have quite a few of them. Roadnames all have all new car numbers. (3 per roadname) But we do not list the car #s separately. If you order more than one car of same roadname we will try to give you an assortment of car numbers. But since we are closing out the current stock, we can not guarantee to have an assortment of car numbers on hand when you order.

Couplers:

      All these cars come with the "Rapido style" couplers. We are told the MT-1128 will fit these cars. However, we will also include at no charge, a pair of our non-operating "N" dummy couplers that will mate with the MT couplers with each car shipped to you, so you can exchange the "Rapido style" for our non-operating dummy couplers if you so desire.

Photos:

      Photos of almost all roadnames can be found at the bottom of this page, some photos are of the models, others of the Prototype car lettering we modeled.