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Aztec - SS1300 - Stock Car, 40 Foot, Cattle - Union Pacific - 47758

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Stock NumberSS1300
BrandAztec
ManufacturerAtlas Model Railroad
Body StyleAtlas Stock Car 40 Foot
Prototype VehicleStock Car, 40 Foot, Steel (Details)
PrototypeStock Car, 40 Foot, Cattle
Road or Company NameUnion Pacific (Details)
Reporting MarksOSL
Road or Reporting Number47758
Paint Color(s)Yellow
Print Color(s)Red
Coupler TypeRapido Hook
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeInjection Molded Plastic
Wheel ProfileDeep Flange
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeStock Car
Model Subtype40 Foot
Model VarietyCattle
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: This car has a battery powered sound module installed in it. It generates steam engine sounds when turned on. The battery can easily be replaced. It is compatible with both DC and DCC layouts.
Model Information: This model was introduced in 1971 in kit form for four different road names. It was produced in Atlas' New Jersey factory and it served to replace the Roco made models that they had started importing in 1967. By 1977, the model was being produced in RTR (Ready-to-Run) form with new product numbers and two new road names. The original model was equipped with Rapido couplers and the ubiquitous Nickel-Silver plated wheels. This release comprised four more road names. In the 1990s, the tooling was moved to China for the more recent releases which sport injection-molded plastic wheels and Accumate couplers.
It was moved to the Trainman range in the mid 2000s.
Prototype History:
Alonzo Mather, a Chicago clothing merchant who founded the Mather Stock Car Company, designed a new stock car in 1880 that was among the first to include amenities for feeding and watering the animals while en route. Mather was awarded a gold medal in 1883 by the American Humane Association for the humane treatment afforded to animals in his stock cars. Minneapolis' Henry C. Hicks patented a convertible boxcar/stock car in 1881, which was improved in 1890 with features that included a removable double deck. George D. Burton of Boston introduced his version of the humane stock car in 1882, which was placed into service the following year. The Burton Stock Car Company's design provided sufficient space so as to allow the animals to lie down in transit on a bed of straw.

Steel stock cars were in general use after the Second World War when steel became readily available.

From Wikipedia
Road Name History:
The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

Read more on Wikipedia and on Union Pacific official website.
Brand/Importer Information:
Aztec Manufacturing is an aftermarket decorator originally based in San Mateo, CA, now in Carson City, NV.
Historically, Aztec was known for their excellent quality aftermarket decorations of other manufacturers' rolling stock. Aztec repainted models by many different manufacturers including Life-Like, Atlas and others.
In the recent years, Aztec's focus is on track cleaning cars DCC-Ready frames for locomotives and high quality pad-printed freight cars.
Following retirement of its owner, Aztec closed its business in 2018.
Manufacturer Information: 'Atlas Model Railroad' represents the New Jersey manufacturing facility for Atlas brand model railroad products. Atlas also imported European made models in their early years and those items will be noted as having manufacturers set appropriately. In the 1990s Atlas moved all their toolings to China.
Item created by: gdm on 2018-02-20 09:20:27. Last edited by Alain LM on 2024-01-14 13:59:13

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