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RailSmith - 754008 - Passenger Car, Pullman, Fluted, Diner - Santa Fe - 1488

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Production TypeAnnounced
Stock Number754008
Original Retail Price$53.00
BrandRailSmith
ManufacturerRailSmith
Body StyleWalthers Passenger Pullman Diner Car
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
PrototypePassenger Car, Pullman, Fluted, Diner
Road or Company NameSanta Fe (Details)
Road or Reporting Number1488
Paint Color(s)Silver
Print Color(s)Black
Coupler TypeAccuMate Magnetic Knuckle
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileStandard
Announcement Date2023-01-12
Release Date2023-09-01
Item CategoryPassenger Cars
Model TypeLightweight/Streamlined
Model SubtypePullman
Model VarietyDiner, Fluted
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: This car, #1488 was a single car order built by Pullman and delivered in 1940.
Road Name History:
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often abbreviated as Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Chartered in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress. Despite the name, its main line never served Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the terrain was too difficult; the town ultimately was reached by a branch line from Lamy.

The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport, an enterprise that (at one time or another) included a tugboat fleet and an airline (the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway). Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean. The ATSF was the subject of a popular song, Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer's "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written for the film, The Harvey Girls (1946).

The railroad officially ceased operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway.

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Brand/Importer Information:
RailSmith is a brand launched by Lowell Smith in 2019. Lowell acquired the toolings from Walthers.

With each release, RailSmith will bring passenger cars from across the spectrum of North America’s railroads, with the goal of building entire trains over a period-of-time. It is our plan to release cars that might be for a specific train, but you can use these cars as you see fit, as did the railroads.

Production plans are grand, but we believe they are also achievable. We do not have the capabilities to release an entire train at once, but being able to focus on one release (two-or-three cars at a time), we can build a train over time.
Item created by: CNW400 on 2023-01-12 15:21:14

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