Description
OPEN-SIDED EXCURSION CAR - EAST BROAD TOP #168
HO SCALE
Purpose-built for use on tourist railroads and routes with exceptional scenic beauty, open-sided excursion cars provide a more exhilarating, sensory experience, allowing passengers to feel the wind as the train moves, smell the smoke from the locomotive, and hear the whistle as they traverse the landscape. For railroad operators, these cars are also cost-effective, utilizing existing frames and trucks from freight cars. This model represents one of the open-sided cars used on the historic East Broad Top Railroad in central Pennsylvania. Operating as a tourist railroad since ceasing service as a common carrier in 1956, the East Broad Top is one of the most complete historic railroad operations in the United States and has been described as an irreplaceable national treasure by the Smithsonian Institution.
Features Include
- “Open-air” scenic railroad design, based on homemade new construction and converted freight cars
- Detailed, painted bodies with precision graphics (where applicable)
- Full interior with detailed roof underside, simulated wood flooring, and bench seating
- Separately applied railroad herald/car name signboards, per roadname
- Separately applied handrails, brake wheel, and stirrups
- Fully detailed underbody with separately applied truss rods
- Magnetically operated E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers
- Detailed trucks with see-through sideframes
- Blackened metal wheels with RP25 contours
- Product Measurements: L 6.5 in., W 1.5 in., H 1.5 in.
- Retail Package Measurements: L 7.5 in., W 1.7 in., H 3.4 in.
- Model: 17401
- UPC: 022899174013
- Scale: HO 1:87
- This Product is Recommended for Ages 14 & Up.
