Athearn ATH-1341 HO 50ft ACF Combo Door Box Car, Great Northern #36571

Model Features:

• Separately applied side, end ladders and brake wheel


• Weighted for optimum performance


• 33” machined metal wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track


• Body-mounted, McHenry® operating scale knuckle couplers


• Accurately painted and printed for prototypical realism


• Highly detailed, injection-molded body


• Fully assembled and ready for your layout


• Minimum radius: 18”

Prototype Overview:

These 50’-6” box cars were built in the 1960s and featured a combina- tion of 8’-0” Youngstown sliding and plug doors. Combination door boxcars had the advantage of being both a standard box car with sliding door, plus having a larger opening for larger loads. The plug doors provided internal flush side walls along their location next to the sliding door. Having these flush side walls increased usable cubic feet capacity in the box car. Many of these box cars came with Hydra-Cushion or Keystone type cushioned underframes, and optional “damage free (DF)” load dividers.