April 23, 2024
USA Trains C&NW Piggyback Flat Car in OB Chicago & North Western Railway
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***Offered is the Like New in Original Box model of a C&NW - Chicago & North Western Railroad TrucTrain Piggyback Flat Car with C&NW Trailer ! This car was on display, and was run very lightly on my indoor layout. The wheels look clean and new. Hook and loop couplers are attached. The stand to hold the fifth wheel needs some help, and there is a faint silicon glue spot where the trailer wheels were secured at one time. The rear bumper bar on the trailer came loose, as most seemed to. They were a bit fragile. All parts are included. 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
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