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HO Scale Freight Car
RoadRailers®
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History: The Roadrailers® trailer
features identical interior dimensions and a tare weight only 600 lb. heavier
than conventional trailers and 1,000 lb. less than a 53-foot "high
cube" domestic container on chassis. The Roadrailers® trailer has
a unique air-ride suspension system which reduces the trailer weight by
hundreds of pounds. The Federal Railroad Administration has increased the
permissible length of Roadrailers® trains from 75 to 100 units. Testing
is now underway to increase the length to 125 units. In a typical 120 unit
trailer piggyback train of 60 89' conventional TTX cars there will be as
much as 140 feet of coupler slack. A 200 unit container articulate double
stack train has about 10 feet of coupler slack between the loco and the
last car. The RoadRailer® train (125 units) has just 5 inches of slack.
This reduces damage to the cargo.
Triple Crown® Service's Inc. (a jointly owned subsidiary of Conrail and
Norfolk Southern) has 13 terminals Chicago, Illinois; Kansas City, Missouri;
St. Louis, Missouri; Dalton, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida;
Crestline, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Toronto, Canada; Rochester, New York;
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Newark, New Jersey. In April 1996 Swift Transportation/Southern
Pacific Roadrailer® service on the west coast got underway between Los Angeles,
CA and Portland OR. Initial plans call for two trains per week each way,
working towards a daily service.
Official Authorized Model: Our skilled
designers worked closely with Wabash National's engineering and marketing
departments to insure the accuracy of our trailers.
Kit Includes: One piece plastic molded
trailer body, underframe, landing gear, tires and rail bogie with Roller
Bearing trucks and 33" wheels on brass axles. CouplerMate™ Transition
Rail Bogie with X-2f coupler is packaged separately (only one is required
for a train - not included with kit). Uses KD© #5. MADE IN USA.
Ordering: You can order any quantity. Different
road numbers are available indicated by the following keys in the "Description":
we have 3 road numbers available if the first letter is a plus sign [+]
and we have 12 road numbers if the first letter is an asterisk [*]
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Listing of Available Models and Associated Car Numbers: The list
below identifies the cars and roadnames that are currently available. Underlined
part numbers have pictures available for you to see on-line by clicking on part
number. Please note that each production run of a roadname uses a new series
of car numbers. We do not re-use a previous numbering series for any subsequent
production run. Thus, we only can fill orders for the most current production
run and associated numbering series. Please refer to our list of RoadRailers® car numbers that have be used and the current numbers which are available.
| Part # | Description | Price | | 1-55521 | *53 Foot Side Door Roadrailer Amtrak | * n.a. |
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| Part # | Description | Price | | 1-55700 | 53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Undecorated | * n.a. | | 1-55701 | *53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Amtrak | * n.a. | | 1-55702 | =53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Swift | * n.a. | | 1-55703 | =53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Superwedge | * n.a. | | 1-55704 | *53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Triple Crown | * n.a. | | 1-55707 | =53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail White/Sil | * n.a. | | 1-55708 | *53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail Up | * n.a. | | 1~55709 | *53 Foot Smooth Wall Roadrail TC Early | * n.a. |
Coupler Mate ™ for the Roadrailer®
Note that only one Coupler Mate™ is needed to make a train. This is the
front unit that couples the RoadRailer cars to the train. Includes operating
knuckle coupler. The photo on the right is shown with the the Coupler Mate
™ Railing and Steps kit.
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