Wheels Of Time N Scale 396 60' Baggage-Express Car Southern (MOW) #900020 New!

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Wheels Of Time N Scale 396 Southern (MOW) 60' Harriman Baggage-Express Car with Plywood-Metal Doors ~ Road Number 900020
Southern Railway maintenance-of-way fleet comprises of tank cars, flatcars, boxcars, and old arched roof baggage-express cars! This car was still on the roster of Norfolk Southern before it was retired.
In Stock, Brand New with Manufactures Warranty.
These cars were seen on railroads across North America. Harriman cars were developed during the time of Edward Henry Harriman, who controlled the Chicago & Alton Railroad, the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Illinois Central, the Central of Georgia, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Wells Fargo Express Company, and directed the development of the "Common Standard Specifications" among the Associated Lines. This set of specifications allowed parts to be shared across all Harriman-controlled railroads, allowing economical bid prices due to the sheer size of standardized orders, standardized part inventories and methods for car repair.
These cars were designed with the a distinctive arched roof and diamond underframe crossbearers. The Arched Roof construction handled rainy weather better than clerestoy design - once lighting and ventilation problems were solved. Non-Harriman Arched Roof cars, while similar, had fished-belly underframes developed by Pullman Mfg. Co. and copied by others.  Some of these 60-ft cars remained in use until the advent of Amtrak while others became maintenance-of-way cars.
Model Features:
Roofs that follow the prototypes such as utility vented roof, glove (round vents) vented roof, or modernized (sealed roof with no vents) roof
Equipped with wood doors, multi-pane window doors, or Plywood-Metal (modernized) doors according to each car
Equipped with 36" metal wheels
Internal metal weights for smooth operation
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