Missouri Kansas Texas 50' PS-1 Boxcar #18356

MODEL INFORMATION
Company: Atlas
Product # 3007604
Gauge: Standard O
First Cataloged: 2016
Trucks: Die-cast, Sprung, 70-ton roller-bearing trucks as per the prototype, with rotating bearing caps
Couplers: Die-cast, Operating, Articulated 
Notes: Highly detailed ABS body; separately-applied grab irons, ladders, and brake line details; min curve 36'; Youngstown or Pullman Standard style doors as per the prototype
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PROTOTYPE INFORMATION
Builder: Pullman Standard
Era: 50's, 60's
Primary Use:
Notes: Represents a classic American freight car from the 1950s and 1960s, when fifty-foot box cars became the standard. Many railroads of the period operated Pullman Standard's box cars, but details were often specific to each company. One of details that differed was the supplier of the doors (Youngstown or Pullman Standard styles).
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Frisco PS4427 Hopper #81424

MODEL INFORMATION
Company: Atlas
Product #: 3001357

Gauge: Standard O
First Released: 2012
Trucks: Die-cast, Sprung
Couplers: Die-cast, Operating
Notes: Full brakeline details.  Opening hatches with full working latch assembly. Separately applied wire grab irons.  See-through roofwalks.  The trucks are accurate 100-ton roller-bearing trucks with rotating bearing caps.
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PROTOTYPE INFORMATION
Builder: Pullman Standard
Era: 1964 to present; #81424 built 1965
Primary Use: Grains including corn, wheat, flour, others
Other Uses: Carborundum grit, salt, clay, phosphates, and other medium-low density minerals and chemicals
Notes: The backbone car for many of the large grain hauling railroads as well as the car of choice for many leading companies.  
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Frisco ACF 6 Bay Cylindrical Hopper #81015

MODEL INFORMATION

Company:  Atlas O

Item #:  6333-1

Gauge:  Standard O

Trucks:  Die-Cast, Sprung

Notes:  This hopper handles the 60" and 72" mainlines just fine, but the trucks hit the car on 36" curves.  It is a large - a scale model if the couplers and trucks are converted, and it is made for easy 2-rail conversion.

PROTOTYPE INFORMATION

Car Manufacturer:  ACF

Notes:  An early design of what would become the highly successful "Center-Flow" car.  Frisco had 25 of these cars: SL-SF 81000 thru SL-SF 81024.  The cylindrical design was expensive to build.  ACF soon modified their Center-Flow design into what has become a very common covered hopper in many sizes and capacities.