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The Freight Yard - 2324A - Boxcar, 50 Foot, Steel, Double Door - Valdosta Southern - 2011

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N Scale - The Freight Yard - 2324A - Boxcar, 50 Foot, Steel, Double Door - Valdosta Southern - 2011 Different Road Number Shown
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Stock Number2324A
Original Retail Price$22.45
BrandThe Freight Yard
ManufacturerMicro-Trains Line
Body StyleMicro-Trains 037 Boxcar 50 Foot Double Door No Roofwalk
Prototype VehicleBoxcar, 50 Foot, Steel, Double Door (Details)
Road or Company NameValdosta Southern (Details)
Reporting MarksVS
Road or Reporting Number2011
Paint Color(s)Green
Print Color(s)White
Coupler TypeMT Magne-Matic Knuckle
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeInjection Molded Plastic
Wheel ProfileStandard
Series NamePremiere Editions
Release Date2003-04-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeBoxcar
Model Subtype50 Foot
Model VarietySteel Double Sliding Door No Roofwalk
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era IV: 2nd Gen Diesel (1958 - 1978)
Scale1/160
Track GaugeN standard



Model Information: Boxcar, Steel, 50 Foot, Double Sliding Door, Without Roofwalk
Prototype History:
The 50-foot boxcar made its first appearance in the 1930s and steadily grew in popularity over the years, which further improved redundancies by allowing for even more space within a given car. Today, the 50-footer remains the common boxcar size. After the second world war ended, and steel became once again readily available, steel became the go-to choice for construction of boxcars. Pullman Standard and ACF were some of the most prolific builders of these cars.

Double Doors were frequently an option for most of the major North American railcar manufacturers in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. These cars were slightly more expensive to produce and maintain, but for many applications allowed faster loading and unloading times.
Road Name History:
Responding to the threatened abandonment of the line serving their paper mill, Owens-Illinois purchased the line from Valdosta, Georgia to Madison, Florida from Georgia & Florida Railway and began operations as the Valdosta Southern Railroad in 1954. The paper mill was at Clyattville, 10 miles south of Valdosta. The line south of Clyattville all the way to Madison (18 miles away) was abandoned in 1972. The star of the VSO diesel fleet was #473, an SW1200 built for Coos Bay Lumber in 1954. It was equipped with dynamic brakes and large air reservoirs – features that had little use in this part of Georgia. In 1992, the paper company sold the railroad to a small shortline group and it was rechristened Valdosta Railway.
Brand/Importer Information:
The Freight Yard was a hobby shop that did custom decoration and special runs of other manufacturers' N Scale products. It sold its custom products under several brands or collections: Premiere Editions, by The Freight Yard and Dreams Design.
It was located in Anaheim, California and then moved to 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Established in the late 1980s, it stopped business under this name by the end of the 2000s.
The Freight Yard was owned and operated by Darren J. Cohen. Darren is now operating North Valley Trains.
The Freight Yard / Premiere Editions runs are usually available in series of two to twelve different numbers (suffixed A to M, with I not used).
The first two digits of the stock number correspond to the release year (9x being 199x, and 2x being 200x).
Manufacturer 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.

Please consult our Micro-Trains Collector's Guide
Item created by: Alain LM on 2022-10-16 03:45:17. Last edited by Alain LM on 2022-10-16 03:49:57

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