Product Features and Details
Road no. 142 537
There was also a federation boxcar construction type A2 which was a restrained version. At the time of construction (1911) this meant the installation of a handbrake which was operated by accompanying brakemen in the cars as soon as they heard the blast of the whistle from the locomotive. The cars therefore had a raised brakeman?s cab which would give the brakemen some protection from the weather. It wasn?t heated though.
A large proportion of the approximate 130,000 cars were built according to this design. It was only later on that a pneumatic brake was installed in the cars. Even though many of the brakeman?s cabs were converted or removed from many cars, some of them continued to operate with the original large brakeman?s cab until their last days of service.
Model: wheelsets in toe bearing; applied grab rails and steps in low material thickness; close coupling; extra steps; undercarriage with extra brake system; extra signal holder; many extra parts such as door latches
