Item Description
Not all items can be in stock at all
times.
Due to minimum order requirements and shipping charges we
"bunch" up re-orders to save you money.
(We reserve the right to correct errors and change
prices without prior notice.)
|
| |
|
Note:
Not all of the items below may be in stock or available but
the information is provided for reference purposes.
|
Please copy & paste the entire description TEXT (no pictures
please)from the
item you are ordering into your e-mail.
It will save time and reduce possible confusion in determining
what you
really are ordering.
With the quantity of lines we carry it's not possible to memorize
all of them.
|
Be
sure you review our terms pages before placing your order: First: Terms
Page One Then: Terms
Page Two Finally: Terms Page Three
If
you place an order, you have agreed to our terms. |
Please
remember to give your first and last name and the city and
state where you live in all your e-mails.
Non-USA
customers please include the country. |
Pullman
Standard 86’ Auto Parts Box Cars
Bluford Shops is proud to announce N scale Pullman Standard
86’ Auto Parts Box Cars in both Double and Quad Door
versions. These cars have injection molded plastic bodies,
etched metal details, operating knuckle couplers, accurately
appearing trucks and cushion draft gear enclosures.
These cars first appeared in the mid-60s and are still in
use today. Unlike general service freight cars, auto parts
boxes are assigned to pools based on a mileage formula and
often spend most of their time off home rails. In other words,
“foreign road” cars usually out-number home road
cars in a given parts train to the point that if you missed
the locomotives passing, you would have a hard time telling
whose train it was! That makes for colorful and interesting
trains that are fun to model.
Pre-Production Model
Click
photo to see large view
|
|
Item Description
|
| |
Eighth
Release |
No 8-Door Cars were released in the Eighth Release
|
|
Seventh
Release
|
| Part
#: BS-87061 Conrail (large logo)
-- quad door single car |
| |
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
|
In the first few months of the Conrail merger, paint
crews made due with lettering stencils cobbled together
from old Penn Central and EL stencils. By the summer
of 1976 new stencils were in place at Conrail’s
car shops and cars like this began to appear. In later
years, the CONRAIL name was moved to a position over
the wheel-n-rail logo and later still, the logos were
reduced in size. The final variation introduced in
the early 90s included the Conrail Quality logo. Conrail
was far and away the largest owner of 86’ boxcars.
Conrail cars still operating today with CR reporting
marks are now part of the Norfolk Southern fleet. |
|
|
|
| Part
#: BS-87062
Conrail (large logo)
-- quad door 2-pack |
| |
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
|
In
the first few months of the Conrail merger, paint
crews made due with lettering stencils cobbled together
from old Penn Central and EL stencils. By the summer
of 1976 new stencils were in place at Conrail’s
car shops and cars like this began to appear. In later
years, the CONRAIL name was moved to a position over
the wheel-n-rail logo and later still, the logos were
reduced in size. The final variation introduced in
the early 90s included the Conrail Quality logo. Conrail
was far and away the largest owner of 86’ boxcars.
Conrail cars still operating today with CR reporting
marks are now part of the Norfolk Southern fleet. |
|
|
|
|
Sixth
Release
|
No 8-Door Cars were released in the Sixth Release
|
Fifth
Release
|
| Part
#: BS-87041 Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)
-
quad door single car |
| |
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
| Pullman
Standard built this large batch of quad door cars for
B&O in 1965. B&O classed them as M-86 and initially
assigned them for loading in Parma, Ohio and Indianapolis,
Indiana for destinations across the map. |
|
|
|
| Part
#: BS-87042 Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) -
quad door 2-pk |
| |
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
| Pullman
Standard built this large batch of quad door cars for
B&O in 1965. B&O classed them as M-86 and initially
assigned them for loading in Parma, Ohio and Indianapolis,
Indiana for destinations across the map. |
|
|
|
| Part
#: BS-87051 New York Central (NYC) -
quad door single car |
|
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
| This
batch of cars was built in 1966, classed by NYC as “104-B”
and initially assigned for loading by Chevy in Flint,
Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western. This is another
example of auto parts cars belonging to a multi-railroad
pool assigned for loading (and unloading for that matter)
off home rails. |
|
|
|
| Part
#: BS-87052 New York Central (NYC) -
quad door 2-pk |
|
Click
photo to see
large view |
|
| This
batch of cars was built in 1966, classed by NYC as “104-B”
and initially assigned for loading by Chevy in Flint,
Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western. This is another
example of auto parts cars belonging to a multi-railroad
pool assigned for loading (and unloading for that matter)
off home rails. |
|
|
|
|
Item Description
|
| |
Stock Checks:
Inventory is a fluid commodity. It changes by the
hour (sometimes by the minute). To retain our pricing structure
we maintain stock levels designed to turnover 6 times each
year. We cannot guarantee stock status till we have an order
in hand. All product is subject to prior sale. If we confirm
that we have it, and, while we are waiting for the order
it sells, you would be upset that we did not hold it.
We used to hold items but learned a VERY EXPENSIVE lesson.
When we held items for customers’ orders, the order
never materialized 80%+ of the time. We lost out on
the orders placed while the item was on hold. Also
we wasted staff time that could have been used to pull actual
orders.
Since we are well known for finding older stock the fact
that it may not be on our shelves at this minute does not
mean we can’t get it. So, as we spell out on our terms
pages, we don’t do it anymore. You may, however, call in and we will tell you if the items
are available and if possible attempt to locate what we
don’t have while you are on the phone. |
| Last Update by: GJC |
| Friday, July 5, 2019 1:48 PM |
|
September 20, 2002 - 
Wig-Wag, LLC
