70' Heavyweight Baggage-Express s

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Description
Extra fine details - crisp paint & printing - sliding baggage doors - nicely weighted for the runner - new adjustable draft gear - and 6-wheel truck with 36" metal wheelsets - Micro-Trains® Couplers. Multiple configurations: arched roof with Garland vents - arched roof with Utility vents - and clerestory; curve end trim and straight end trim - brake wheel or brake lever all as per prototype.

For Students of Railroading - A brief history.

As construction techniques for carbuilding and track & roadbed improved - car capacity increased from 60-ft to 70-ft - nominally measured at 74 feet over the coupler faces or 70 feet between the end sills.  These cars were used for carrying express packages - pre-sorted mail - and passenger luggage from the 1920s to the advent of Amtrak.  In mail & express service (M&E) - they were interlined with connecting railroads to provide seemless service.
One could find CN cars on Grand Trunk Western trains rolling into Chicago's Dearborn Station.  Texas & Pacific cars could be seen on their parent road Missouri Pacific - and on Southern Pacific trains west of El Paso to LAUPT.  There is much photographic evidence of New York Central cars driving into LA by way of RI-SP - ATSF and UP.  By the 1960's - railroads increasingly relied on M&E traffic to offset dwindling passenger ticket revenues.  The express business in U.S. known as Railway Express Agency (REA) was the equivalent of today's UPS or FedEx.  The REA provided express shipment and door-to-door service on trains using such cars as these and with a fleet of delivery trucks.  REA's roots are partly in Wells Fargo & Co Stage Lines - which gave it's name to today's bank.  The REA ended in bankruptcy in 1975. 

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.