Product Information:
Roka RPM 118
UP #800037 SAFE-PAK, TRI-LEVEL, LOW ROOF, TRI-FOLD END DOORS
In 1973 the first fully enclosed autorack railroad cars were designed by competing manufacturers to address the problem of increasing vandalism to new automobiles in transit. The first production fully enclosed autorack railroad cars were delivered in late 1974 and early 1975. The Whitehead & Kales company design, named Safe-Pak, were delivered to the ATSF, CP, CRR, FEC, NW, SSW, UP and WP. The Safe-Pak autorack cars were in service on US and Canadian railroads until the late 1990s.
Features:
This highly detailed HO scale Safe-Pak car is available for the first time ever as a high fidelity injected molded RTR model. It has Kadee #5 couplers, free rolling metal wheel sets, and meticulously researched prototypically accurate era specific paint schemes.
