Bluford Shops N 86790 86' Double Door Boxcar, Missouri-Kansas-Texas #8504

Bluford Shops is bringing back our popular 86_x0092_ Double Door Auto Parts Boxcars. These will include our recently improved draft gear, magnetically operating couplers and metal wheels. The minimum radius is 11_x0094_. They also include separate wire grab irons and etched metal platforms on the ends. The draft gear is mounted to the body but has a spring centered swing action that both resists string-lining the train pulling through curves and resists the trucks climbing the rail during shoving moves.


These super-size boxcars were originally built to carry high-value low-density automobile parts such as body panels and window glass to final assembly plants. Cars were acquired in wide ranging pools including several plants and the railroads that connected them. It was common for cars to run for months or years without traveling on their home road_x0092_s rails.


Missouri-Kansas-Texas took delivery of this group of cars in 1965 during the railroad_x0092_s troubled Deramus era. They were initially assigned for loading at a Ford plant on the Wabash in Buffalo, New York.