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Micro-Trains - 538 00 190 - Log Car, Skeleton - Painted/Unlettered

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BrandMicro-Trains
Stock Number538 00 190
Secondary Stock Number538 00 190
Original Retail Price$21.80
ManufacturerMicro-Trains
Body StyleMicro-Trains 40' Modern Log Car
Prototype VehicleLog Car, Skeleton (Details)
Road or Company NamePainted/Unlettered (Details)
Paint Color(s)Black
Coupler TypeMicro-Trains
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeInjection Molded Plastic
Announcement Date2019-04-01
Release Date2019-04-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeLog Car
Model Subtype40 foot
Model VarietyUprights
RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era II: Late Steam (1901 - 1938)



Specific Item Information: These 40’ modern log cars are black and run on Arch Bar trucks. Many logging railroads used wooden spine log cars in abundance, often home-built, to carry freshly cut timber to mills for processing. This body style is typical of the log cars used on standard gauge railroads across the United States.
Prototype History:
The skeleton car has been a staple in the logging industry since the early part of the century and has appeared on nearly every logging road in the country. Such cars came in standard and narrow gauge versions and probably everything in between. Shay, Climax, and Heisler geared locomotives often pulled long strings of skeleton cars through the mountains and forests of California and the Pacific Northwest.
Road Name History:
Some items are designed to have their owner add whatever company marking they choose, usually in the form of decals or dry-transfers. These items are painted in a generic prototypical fashion but with all company affiliation deliberately left off.

Brand/Importer Information:
Micro-Trains Line split off from Kadee Quality Products in 1990. Kadee Quality Products originally got involved in N-Scale by producing a scaled-down version of their successful HO Magne-Matic knuckle coupler system. This coupler was superior to the ubiquitous 'Rapido' style coupler due to two primary factors: superior realistic appearance and the ability to automatically uncouple when stopped over a magnet embedded in a section of track. The success of these couplers in N-Scale quickly translated to the production of trucks, wheels and in 1972 a release of ready-to-run box cars.

Micro-Trains Line Co. split off from Kadee in 1990 to form a completely independent company. For this reason, products from this company can appear with labels from both enterprises. Due to the nature of production idiosyncrasies and various random factors, the rolling stock from Micro-Trains can have all sorts of interesting variations in both their packaging as well as the products themselves. When acquiring an MTL product it is very important to understand these important production variations that can greatly enhance (or decrease) the value of your purchase.
Item created by: gdm on 2019-04-04 12:10:49. Last edited by Alain LM on 2019-12-29 11:22:14

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