PROTO 1000 SERIES BY CANADIAN HOBBYCRAFT PACIFIC&GREAT EASTERN 50' MAROON #4640

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PROTO 1000 Series by Life-Like Products; HO-Scale Pacific Great Eastern (PGE) 50' NEWSPRI NT Smooth Plug-Door Maroon NEWSPRINT Car with Gray Roof w/White lettering and Reporting Marks, PGE logo with a red map on white background. Car Number: P.G.E. #4640 Built in December, 1947 . The first picture is of a prototype of the PGE 50' Newsprint car which is up for sale. The next two images are of the HO-Scale model of the PGE 50' Newsprint which is up for sale. The rest are prototypes of PGE Newsprint cars This Maroon and Gray Newsprint car makes a nice addition to your consist with the Light and Dark Green BCR, the Brown DW&P, the Green & White Boise and the CN Multi-Mark. Item No. 20707 Item number is sold out at the manufacturer. Mfg price $39.98, your price $27.67. And the 2nd, 3rd and 4th receive free shipping in the same box, a saving of $9.00 for 2 and $18.00 for 3 and $27.00 for 4. These newsprint cars have variety of paint schemes and road names enough to make a good looking consist to commute between the forest Paper Mills to the Printing Presses of the American and Canadian Newspapers. Buildings on each end can provide a theme to your layout. These cars are dark Green BCOL, light green BCOL, Boxcar Red PGE, Boxcar DW&P, and Green & White Boise Cascade, clump 3 or more of each and do some mixing up of individual cars. ABOUT THE 50' NEWSPRINT CARS: In 1967 the national steel car corporation started building 70 ton 50' box cars specifically designed for shipping rolls of newsprint from paper mills in Canada to newsprint companies throughout North America. A total 3,592 were manufactured between 1967 and 1971 for six railways. Pacific Great Eastern, British Columbia Railway, CP Rail, Boise Cascade, Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific, Canadian National. The vast majority of these cars remain in revenue service. These cars have an inside height of 11’ 0” enabling newsprint rolls to be loaded in two tiers. To provide maximum protection to the bruiseable newsprint rolls, the cars have smooth interior walls and cushioned underframes. The cars feature an aluminum roof, NSC-designed corrugated ends either smooth or an exterior-post Youngstown 9’ wide plug door. There are several minor variations. Features of the 50’ newsprint box car include: ► Accurate detailed body ► Smooth plug-door or exterior-post plug door ► Universal coupler pockets – P2K magnetic knuckle couplers ► Laser quality prototype correct printing and lettering ► Weighted for prototypical scale and trouble free operation ► Consumer applied Hand Rails & Grab Irons ► Separate ladders and door latch rods ► Free rolling 70 ton trucks with 33” wheels ► Non-Magnetic blackened metal wheels ► Ready to Roll The PGE - or rather the BCR , to use the modern name - is ranked as one of the top-ten most-scenic rail journeys in the world. Daily runs to and from Lillooet out of North Vancouver are augmented buy alternating-day runs to and from Prince George as well as special ski-trains and a tourist excursion, the Cariboo Prospector, with first-class seating and dining. Until recently There are not as many lakeside hostelries as there were in the old heyday of the line, but the journey to Lilooet attracts a growing number of tourists every year, many marvelling at the drastically different climate of the Lillooet canyon-country after the rains of the Coast and the Whistler ski resort. The Pacific Great Eastern, known as the PGE, was a provincially-sponsored railway meant to unify British Columbia as the transcontinental railways had served to do for Canada. Originally begun before the Great War of 1914-18, the line was assailed by its critics as a line "from nowhere to nowhere", running as it did in its first phase only between Pemberton and Lillooet . After the war it was completed as far as Squamish (then Newport) and extended to the Cariboo and Prince George; travellers from Vancouver took ferries from the Vancouver w... read more

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