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HO Gallery Commuter Car: Metra - Early Logo: Set #1 (Cab: #8238 Coaches: #7328, #7365)
Introducing the other Budd gallery car fleet, first built for Milwaukee Road and Rock Island! Both railroads needed to replace aging commuter equipment, and Milwaukee Road ordered 32 coaches and 8 cab cars in 1961, followed by another order of 10 coaches and 12 cabs in 1964. Milwaukee’s cars ran behind HEP E units and other power in all kinds of consists, including off peak trains with just an E unit and a cab car! Notably, Milwaukee often used their fleet for other services, including Chicago-Milwaukee runs and special charters to Madison, Milwaukee, and more.
Rapido HO Scale Budd Gallery Cars feature:
- Designed from original blueprints, design drawings and field measurements
- Rock Island, Milwaukee and BNSF car types with Metramodified blanked cab car end version!
- Free-rolling, highly detailed trucks with metal wheelsets
- Full underbody including HEP conduit and equipment
- Complete interior including actual “gallery” seating
- Accurate painting and lettering, both inside and out
- Correctly-colored tinted windows
- Metal side grab irons and sprung diaphragms
- Constant flicker-free interior lighting in both DC and DCC
- MoPower capacitor for uninterrupted DCC passenger car lighting
- Controllable cab car lighting in both DC and DCC, including headlights, marker lights, as well as ditch lights and beacons (where appropriate)
- Suggested minimum radius: 22”
