Athearn 3859 N 50ft NACC Box Car – Hamm’s #31217

PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:
The 1960s was a period of development that would set the course of
railroading as we see it today. The North American Car Corporation
designed and built a 50’ outside post, insulated, plug door box car
which proved to be a vision of developments to come. Several railroads
rostered this car with most of them either purchased by or leased to
private shippers. The NACC cars were frequently decorated in complex,
colorful paint schemes. When the NACC cars were built, general leasing,
billboard paint schemes and modern freight handling techniques were still
at least a decade in the future.

MODEL FEATURES:
• Etched metal stirrup steps
• Detailed, molded underframe
• Pullman Standard or Superior plug doors
• Pullman Standard or Stanray (Superior) roof (to match prototype)
• N-scale 70 ton trucks
• Machined 33” metal wheels
• Body mounted McHenry® operating scale knuckle couplers
• Weighted for optimum performance
• Minimum radius: 9 ¾”