cm stock car

34' Colorado Midland / AT&SF
Single Deck Stock Car

Built 1886 to 1888

Move your stock to greener pastures!

Cast for us by Barry McClelland of Railway Recollections, this is probably the most highly detailed 19th-century stock car ever offered as a kit in HO scale, with 300-odd bolts to make sure it will never fall apart on you. The prototype was designed by Santa Fe Master Car Builder George Hackney, and the AT&SF and its subsidiaries bought 774 of them between 1886 and 1888. The last of these AT&SF cars were retired in 1925. The Colorado Midland Railway, with numerous ex-Santa Fe men among its officers, bought 25 of these cars from the St. Charles Car Company in 1887. The Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railway and the Chicago, Kansas City and Texas Railway had very similar cars built by St. Charles.

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Outside Dimensions of Car	Length 34'8", Width 9'8" incl. stake pockets, Body Height 9' from bottom of sills to top of roofwalk
Lettering	CM ($5) or AT&SF ($4) decals available separately from Silver Crash Car Works. Decals for CM, AT&SF or PT&A (all $6) also available from Art Griffin (Catalog p. 101).
Recommended Trucks	Thielsen swing motion trucks (not included), $8 per pair including Kadee wheelsets from Trout Creek Engineering (part # TC-1)
Estimated Construction Time	Basic kit: 5-6 hours including grab-irons, brake wheel and tie rods Options requiring more time: underbody brake rigging
Kits Available From	Silver Crash Car Works ($27)