Atlas Model Railroad

Atlas Trainman HO 68' flat car in Union Pacific maintenance-of-way (MOW) green and white, road number 915832.

About the Prototype

Railroads keep a fleet of company-service cars that never haul paying freight. Their job is maintaining the railroad itself. Union Pacific's maintenance-of-way flats, numbered in the 900000 series, carry rail, crossties, track panels, bridge timbers and work equipment out to track gangs across the system.

Long, plain-deck flats like this 68' car are ideal for those loads. A string of them in MOW paint makes a great work train behind an older road switcher, or a spot on a siding next to a tie pile.

Features

• Union Pacific MOW #915832 – green with white lettering
• Detailed 68' flat car body and underframe
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 468
• Road name / number: Union Pacific (MOW) #915832
• Car type: 68' Flat Car

Photo shows sister car #915804; this car is lettered #915832. Also in stock: #915804 (20 006 466) and #915816 (20 006 467).

Atlas Trainman HO 68' flat car in Union Pacific maintenance-of-way (MOW) green and white, road number 915816.

About the Prototype

Railroads keep a fleet of company-service cars that never haul paying freight. Their job is maintaining the railroad itself. Union Pacific's maintenance-of-way flats, numbered in the 900000 series, carry rail, crossties, track panels, bridge timbers and work equipment out to track gangs across the system.

Long, plain-deck flats like this 68' car are ideal for those loads. A string of them in MOW paint makes a great work train behind an older road switcher, or a spot on a siding next to a tie pile.

Features

• Union Pacific MOW #915816 – green with white lettering
• Detailed 68' flat car body and underframe
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 467
• Road name / number: Union Pacific (MOW) #915816
• Car type: 68' Flat Car

Photo shows sister car #915804; this car is lettered #915816. Also in stock: #915804 (20 006 466) and #915832 (20 006 468).

Atlas Trainman HO 62' bulkhead flat car in Boise Cascade green and white, lettered for the Minnesota, Dakota & Western (MDW), road number 1192.

About the Prototype

Boise Cascade, the Idaho-based forest products company, owned the Minnesota, Dakota & Western, a short line serving its paper mill at International Falls, Minnesota. Its bulkhead flats hauled packaged lumber, plywood and other building products.

Cars like this are used in general service across the United States and Canada. The tall end bulkheads keep loads from shifting, which makes them ideal for packaged lumber, sheet steel, pipe, structural steel and rebar.

Features

• Boise Cascade (MDW) #1192 – green with white lettering
• Side stake pockets
• Simulated tie-down loops
• Fishbelly center sill
• Prototypical pull plates and lift rings
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 458
• Road name / number: Boise Cascade (MDW) #1192
• Car type: 62' Bulkhead Flat Car

Photo shows sister car #1123; this car is lettered #1192. Also in stock: #1123 (20 006 456) and #1174 (20 006 457).

Atlas Trainman HO 68' flat car in Union Pacific maintenance-of-way (MOW) green and white, road number 915804.

About the Prototype

Railroads keep a fleet of company-service cars that never haul paying freight. Their job is maintaining the railroad itself. Union Pacific's maintenance-of-way flats, numbered in the 900000 series, carry rail, crossties, track panels, bridge timbers and work equipment out to track gangs across the system.

Long, plain-deck flats like this 68' car are ideal for those loads. A string of them in MOW paint makes a great work train behind an older road switcher, or a spot on a siding next to a tie pile.

Features

• Union Pacific MOW #915804 – green with white lettering
• Detailed 68' flat car body and underframe
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 466
• Road name / number: Union Pacific (MOW) #915804
• Car type: 68' Flat Car

Also in stock: sister cars #915816 (20 006 467) and #915832 (20 006 468). Build a full work train.

Atlas Trainman HO 62' bulkhead flat car in Boise Cascade green and white, lettered for the Minnesota, Dakota & Western (MDW), road number 1174.

About the Prototype

Boise Cascade, the Idaho-based forest products company, owned the Minnesota, Dakota & Western, a short line serving its paper mill at International Falls, Minnesota. Its bulkhead flats hauled packaged lumber, plywood and other building products.

Cars like this are used in general service across the United States and Canada. The tall end bulkheads keep loads from shifting, which makes them ideal for packaged lumber, sheet steel, pipe, structural steel and rebar.

Features

• Boise Cascade (MDW) #1174 – green with white lettering
• Side stake pockets
• Simulated tie-down loops
• Fishbelly center sill
• Prototypical pull plates and lift rings
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 457
• Road name / number: Boise Cascade (MDW) #1174
• Car type: 62' Bulkhead Flat Car

Photo shows sister car #1123; this car is lettered #1174. Also in stock: #1123 (20 006 456) and #1192 (20 006 458).

Atlas Trainman HO 62' bulkhead flat car in Boise Cascade green and white, lettered for the Minnesota, Dakota & Western (MDW), road number 1123.

About the Prototype

Boise Cascade, the Idaho-based forest products company, owned the Minnesota, Dakota & Western, a short line serving its paper mill at International Falls, Minnesota. Its bulkhead flats hauled packaged lumber, plywood and other building products.

Cars like this are used in general service across the United States and Canada. The tall end bulkheads keep loads from shifting, which makes them ideal for packaged lumber, sheet steel, pipe, structural steel and rebar.

Features

• Boise Cascade (MDW) #1123 – green with white lettering
• Side stake pockets
• Simulated tie-down loops
• Fishbelly center sill
• Prototypical pull plates and lift rings
• Knuckle couplers; ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad (Trainman series)
• Item #: 20 006 456
• Road name / number: Boise Cascade (MDW) #1123
• Car type: 62' Bulkhead Flat Car

Also in stock: sister cars #1174 (20 006 457) and #1192 (20 006 458). Run all three for a realistic cut of lumber flats.

Bring Mexican interchange traffic to your HO layout with this Atlas 50' Postwar Single Door Boxcar in Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (N de M) brown and white, road number 93259.

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, better known as N de M, was Mexico's state-owned railway system, running from 1903 until the railways were privatized around 2001. During World War II, the U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico helped rebuild the system and train its crews in American practices. By war's end the N de M had one of the more modern freight car fleets in North America, built to the same AAR standards as cars in the United States.

That standardization meant N de M boxcars traveled freely in interchange. They were a regular sight in U.S. freight trains, arriving through border gateways like Laredo and Eagle Pass, Texas. Adding one to a southwestern, Texas or transcontinental layout is a simple way to show traffic from south of the border.

About the Prototype

After World War II, railroads ordered large numbers of 50' AAR boxcars built to a standard design first widely used in the late 1940s. It was based on the original 1937 AAR design, updated with improved Dreadnaught ends and a diagonal-panel roof. These 50' boxcars were common on North American railroads well into the 1970s and 1980s, making this car a good fit for transition-era through late-1980s layouts.

Features

• N de M #93259 – brown with white lettering
• Separately applied ladders and grab irons
• Fully detailed underframe
• Free-rolling trucks with metal wheelsets
• Accurate printing and prototypical paint scheme
• Ready to run

Specs

• Scale: HO (1:87)
• Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad
• Item #: 20 005 853
• Road name / number: N de M (Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México) #93259
• Car type: 50' Postwar AAR Single Door Boxcar

Atlas also produced a sister car in this run, N de M #93064 (20 005 852). Pair them for a realistic cut of cars.