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AMS American Model Supply 1:20.3
Design the perfect model railroad or garden railroad layout with Accucraft Box Cars, Stock Cars, Jackson & Sharp Coaches, Tank Cars, Gondolas, Cabooses, Reefers, Logging Cars, Locomotives, and more! We are an Accucraft dealer, which allows us to bring these superb products to you for a great low price.
Scaled to Fn3 - 1:20.3 - NARROW GAUGE - 45 mm Gauge.
 First used in quarries and coal mines as early as the 1820s, the box car evolved to haul large amounts of freight in any type of weather. The box car quickly became the preferred mode of transportation by the mid-19th century.
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 Perhaps the most striking feature ever applied to the railroad caboose was its cupola. What began as a hole in a boxcar’s roof the view afforded from this position, to not only see the train ahead but also from all sides, and the cupola caboose was born!
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 The flatcar was the original freight car used by railroads predated even box cars! Their basic design has changed little since it began.
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 Replacement wheels for your Accucraft freight cars. Keep your model train collection in top shape with replacement wheels.
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 Simply one of the most versatile of railroad cars, used to carry scrap metal, steel coils, new rails, bulk goods and many other types of commodities. This versatility made it a favorite to railroad systems due to it's ease of use and profitability.
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 Accucraft has introduced a ground-breaking model for large-scale railroaders. An accurately scaled passenger coach that matches the 1:20.3 scale locomotives in size and appearance.
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 Similar to tug boards, switcher locomotives are designed to assemble trains for a full sized locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around – this process is known as switching.
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 The West Side Lumber Company railway was the last of the narrow gauge logging railways operating in the American west.
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 A refrigerator car, also known as a reefer, is a refrigerated boxcar. Reefers can be ice-cooled, come equipped with mechanical refrigeration systems, even using carbon dioxide (either as dry ice, or in liquid form) as a cooling agent.
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 The stock car is basically a boxcar with a covered roof, slated sides to allow for proper ventilation, water and feed troughs, and a ramp for loading and unloading livestock such as pigs, sheep, and cattle.
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 The tank car is usually specifically designed to haul a particular type of material such as food-based products or various chemicals.
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 The Hopper is designed with opening doors on the underside or on the sides to discharge its cargo and have been used by railways worldwide to speed unloading of grains, coal, and other bulk materials.
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 Keep your model trains in top shape with these Accucraft Wheels.
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| Just in time for the Holidays! Gift Certificates for Reindeer Pass Railroad make a great gift for the model train hobbyist and garden railroading enthusiast!
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