A Limited Edition HO SCALE Prairie Shadows Trenton Works 5250 Covered Hopper Car Painted for Freelance Model Railroad Chinook Lines! Road Number Variant: CHNK 822753.
This car is the second Home Shops offering for Joe Bohannon's Chinook Lines freelance model railroad. This colorful regional railroad is based on an alternate "What If" storyline that imagines a different outcome for the western end of the Milwaukee Road!
As a nod to the Milwaukee Road heritage of the Chinook Lines, these cars a painted in the beautiful Federal Yellow that many MILW freight cars wore. We are very pleased with this car.
The stenciled Built Date is 8-95.
Trenton Works 5250 - About the Prototype:
Between 1995 and 1996, Trenton Works out of Nova Scotia built multiple lots of hoppers for Canadian grain service. At that time, these cars held 500 CUFT more than the average hopper on the rails. This made them popular for railroads like Canadian National; who built over 1000 of these cars. Besides CN, other companies such as Saskatchewan Wheat Pool built multiple lots of cars that offered the eye-catching POOL paint-scheme. Over the years, these cars changed hands from various owners including Norfolk Southern, FURX, NOKL and St Mary's railway.
The Prairie Shadows Trenton Works 5250 Covered Hopper Car Features:
- Ready-to-run
- Highly detailed body
- Brake detail
- Kadee 158 Scale Couplers
- Crisp Painting
- Barber Trucks
- Etched Metal Roof Walks and Crossover Platforms
- Separately Applied Grab Irons
- 36" CNC Metal Wheels
- Cut Levers
- Full End Cage Details