Product Information:
70008 LR 11-1969 NP Brown-Green repaint 8' NP Shad. + 8' NPR Monad, Brainerd built 50' XM 15-0 Double-slider ctd.
After many years of successful 40-foot boxcar design and manufacturing at the Brainerd Shops in Brainerd, MN, times were changing and that meant cars needed to get longer. In 1955 the Northern Pacific Brainerd Shops started to build one of their most successful groups of 50-foot general service boxcar designs. These distinctive centered double-slider arrangement was not a common one, but it was NPs solution to their forestry based service area. The initial rivetted design of 1955 utilized many off the shelf car body components by Stanray, ends and roof panels, along with two Youngstown 7.5 foot sliding doors. Being added to Brainerd shop design and fabricated frames and sides. (500 cars)
Design Features:
- Differing lettering placements for individual car numbers for repainted cars
- Nailable Steel Floor (NSF) or Wood floors where appropriate
- Accurately applied roofwalks or not with cut down ladders to match era specific schemes
- Car number specific handbrakes, Ajax, Ellcon-National, Equipco, Klasing or Universal
- Fixed frame design with manual brake wear controls
- St. Cloud designed ladders and other appliances
- Wire parts for ALL brake rods, air pipes, and stirrups in specific GN styles
- Durable rubber air hoses and metal corner stirrups
- 50t trucks with metal wheels and axles
- Highly detailed welded Stanray R3-4 ends uniquely used by the St. Cloud Shops
- Researched accurate lettering
- Kadee ”Scale” Whisker couplers
