Fruit Growers Express 50-foot insulated boxcars
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: In line with current ready-to-run freight car prices
Era: March 1967 to 1990s (varies depending on paint scheme)
Manufacturer: Moloco, 302-5025 Harvard Rd., Mississauga, ON, L5W 0W6 Canada, molocotrains.com
Fruit Growers Express 50-foot insulated boxcars features:
- Differing lettering placements for individual car numbers for repainted cars
- Car-number-specific handbrakes (Ajax, Ellcon-National, Equipco, Klasing or Universal)
- Cushion underframe design with 20” travel
- Etched-metal running boards as appropriate
- Rubber air hoses
- Metal stirrup steps
- 70-ton trucks with metal wheelsets
- Stanray ends
- Kadee scale whisker couplers
Release date: Reservations close July 20, 2022; expected delivery late second quarter 2023
Road names: With 10-foot doors – Boston & Maine (AX March 1979 repaint with different lettering placements in two new road numbers and AX July 1979 repaint in one number), Fruit Growers Express (Rock Island AX March 1977 patchout in two numbers and AX February 1977 patchout in one number), Providence & Worcester RR. (AX October 1977 repaint in two numbers), Rock Island (AX February 1977 repaint in one number and AX March 1977 repaint in three numbers), and Western Fruit Express/Great Northern (December 1964 delivery scheme in two numbers).
With 12-foot doors – Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (November 1965 delivery scheme in four new numbers), Northern Pacific (March 1967 delivery re-run in two numbers), and Penn Central (November 1973 repaint in three numbers).
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