Eastern Seaboard Models HO scale insulated boxcars
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Price: $84.50
Era: Early 1950s to 1980s
Manufacturer: Eastern Seaboard Models Corp., P.O. Box 301, Waldwick, NJ 07463; esmc.com
Insulated boxcars feature:
- Etched-metal running board and brake wheel platform
- More than 100 freestanding plastic detail parts
- Hi-Tech Details flexible rubber air hoses
- Underbody charcoal heater
- Ventilators on car sides
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- Kadee No. 148 metal whisker couplers
Release date: Mid-December 2022
Road names: Bangor & Aroostook (Magor Car Co.) and New York, New Haven & Hartford (PC&F). Both in red, white, and blue “State of Maine” scheme. Four road numbers each.
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The NH bought the cars because they participated in the movement of Maine potatoes to Bay Ridge NY (Brooklyn) where they went onto car floats to PRR Greenville NJ (Jersey City)
The traffic vanished when PC took over NH and rerouted the potatoes via Selkirk NY (near Albany). The PC Selkirk people did not refuel the charcoal heaters (nobody reads the waybill) and the crop froze. The damage claims disappeared into PC’s bankruptcy and the Maine growers did not move their potatoes by rail again.