Product Information:
70531 St. Cloud built 50' XM Combo 14-0 Dr. Delivery 1961 Glacier Grn Red Slant w/Rocky
After many years of successful 40-foot boxcar design and manufacturing at the Great Northern (St. Cloud) Shops in St. Cloud, MN, times were changing and that meant cars needed to get longer. In late 1956 the St. Cloud Shops started to build one of their most successful group of 50-foot general service boxcar designs. The offset double-slider arrangement had pre-manufactured Youngstown sides along with off the shelf items to make up the bulk of the car design. This was a direct response to current and future on-line shippers from the forestry, metals and minerals industries. Eventually St. Cloud made 1000 cars for the GN and an additional 500 cars for sibling Spokane, Portland and Seattle (SP&S). So, basically these were the main workhorses on the GN and SP&S for a couple of decades.
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
