New Product Express July 20th, 2021
WalthersMainline 40' PS-1 Boxcar ATSF 4-Packs
WalthersMainline 40' PS-1 Boxcars
You can feel our A-B-B-A set of F units digging in with this week's New Product Express, as we get a long string of new PS-1 Boxcars rolling!
In desperate need of new equipment, war-weary railroads found exactly what they were looking for in Pullman-Standard's PS-1 40' boxcars. Introduced in 1947, the cars adapted many of the assembly techniques developed during the war years, including all welded, assembly-line construction. Thousands rolled out of the factory, and those big steel sides were a blank canvas for the art department!
That was certainly true for the Santa Fe, who turned their new cars into rolling billboards. One side advertised one of four flagship name trains - The Chief, The Super Chief, El Capitan and the Grand Canyon, while the other was decked out with a huge reminder to "Ship and Travel SANTA FE All the Way. " Santa Fe wasn't alone, as other buyers finished their new cars with brighter colors and bigger slogans too.
An absolute must for HO layouts from the 1940s to the 1980s, these sturdy cars traveled all over North America in general freight service, behind steam and diesel power. This new run of WalthersMainline® models makes it easy to model them in HO, with special four-packs of the Santa Fe cars, as well as seven of your favorite roadnames on individual models! Fully assembled and nicely detailed, each features correct early ends (no rectangles), a bowtie roof with flat panels, see-through Apex steel running boards, 6' Superior door and correct 33" RP-25 metal wheelsets.
Remember, these are all limited-run models, so preorder yours now for the September 2021 delivery!
