American Car & Foundry PD3500 Flexi Flo hopper
Scale: N (1:160)
Price: Single car, $44.95; two-pack, $89.90; three-pack, $134.85; and six-pack, $269.70
Era: 1964 to 2010s (varies depending on paint scheme)
Manufacturer: Rapido Trains Inc., 500 Alden Road, Unit 21, Markham, Ontario L3R 5H5 Canada; 905-474-3314; rapidotrains.com
Features
- Early and late body styles
- 125-ton Barber S-2 trucks
- Etched-metal running boards
- Injection-molded grab irons
- Detailed underbody with discharge piping and brake equipment
- Factory-installed air pipes and uncoupling levers
- Metal Macdonald-Cartier knuckle couplers
Release date: To be announced
Road names: Conrail (billboard repaint, Flexi Flo repaint, and simple repaint, all painted gray), FMC Chemicals (gray with SHPX reporting marks), Lafarge Concrete (gray with LAHX reporting marks), Merchants Despatch Transportation (gray with MDTX reporting marks), New York Central (early and late versions), Penn Central (gray Flexi Flo “billboard” repaint and New York Central patchout), and scale test cars (Conrail [gray] and Penn Central [yellow] two-pack). Also available painted gray but unlettered (early and late body styles).
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