April 24, 2024
USA Trains BRAND NEW PRR TrucTrain Piggyback Flat Car Box Car MINT in Box
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***Offered is the BRAND NEW MINT in Box model of a PRR - Pennsylvania Railroad TrucTrain Piggyback Flat Car with Pennsy Trailer ! Flat cars were great for hauling almost any kind of load - that could with stand the elements - bringing every merchandise imaginable to the markets across the country. Lumber, farm machinery, postal trucks, Turbos, generators, bulldozers - we saw just about everything on Flat Cars. Even airplane parts and missiles ! ( anyone recall the MX Missile Project ?) But when the trailer on flat car idea started ( way back on the New Haven, White Pass & Yukon Route among other pioneering railroads) Finally merchandise could be loaded at a customers dock ANYWHERE, even if they did not have a rail siding, and then be rolled across the country efficiently on the rails, and then unloaded and delivered to a the receivers door ! Watching the PRR "Freight Rush" in the evening while working Second Trick was a joy, as Hot Shot PR and TT trains rolled out of the Cove, the Meadows and Waverly Yards and headed west ! At speed ! All gone but the memories... The USA original box is also as perfect, with the inserts Included, and a package of knuckle couplers. The USA Trains hook and loop couplers are factory attached and the knuckle coupler set is easily attached. All major detail parts are factory attached and intact,
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