Limited WEIRTON STEEL Railking Green Box car with Vintage Weirton Steel Property Tags at WWW.PATSTRAINS.COM

Limited WEIRTON STEEL Railking Green Box car with Vintage Weirton Steel Property Tags

WEIRTON STEEL Railking Green Box car with Vintage Weirton Steel Property Tag. This is a very limited run of 20 pieces. We were able to procure a small supply of Capitol Property Tags from the original Weirton Steel Company. These tags were used in the 1940's - 1950's. Each car will feature two tags one on each side with different numbers. These tags were used to identify Capitol property owned by The Weirton Steel Company. THESE ARE LIMITED CARS AND WE CAN ONLY SELL 2 CARS PER-CUSTOMER. These cars are only sold at Patrick's Trains. Product Line: RailKing Roadname: Weirton Steel. Box Car - Weirton Steel (Green) Car No. different on each car side. Product Number: 30-74801TAG . The 40’ steel box car so familiar to model railroaders was a product of the 1930s. Wood box cars, which were built into the World War I era, and early steel cars were largely non-standardized, with details varying from railroad to railroad. The move toward standardization began with American Railway Association (ARA) designs of 1923 and 1932. It culminated in the 1937 AAR boxcar, which was adopted by railroads from coast to coast and built in the tens of thousands. (The AAR (American Association of Railroads) was and still is the successor to the ARA.) While the original paint schemes were usually drab variations on standard box car red, new schemes in the 1950s and later brought color back to the American freight train. Our models replicate many of the most fondly remembered paint schemes seen on these cars. High quality, traditionally sized RailKing Freight Cars provide detailed bodies and colorful paint schemes for the O Gauge railroader. MTH makes an enormous variety of RailKing Freight Cars, including many different car types and roadnames. No matter what era or part of the country you are modeling, RailKing is sure to have something for you. Features Intricately Detailed Durable ABS Body Metal Wheels and Axles Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes Opening Doors Decorative Brake Wheels Separate Metal Handrails Fast-Angle Wheel Sets Needle-Point Axles Sliding Car Doors Unit Measures:11 1/2” x 2 3/8” x 2 5/16” Operates On O-27 Curves