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Athearn Roundhouse 8103: 50' Thrall High Side Coal Gondola. No Load. D&RGW.
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List Price: AU$ 20.00
Price: AU$ 7.50
5.00 USD 6.75 CAD
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These original car kits are offered as individual items. They are being offered on eBay for $14.99USD each.
There are 13 individual D&RGW road numbers. They include Rapido couplers but Micro-Trains couplers can easily be fitted.
In original new "Level 1 Quality" condition. These cars have never been run. The boxes, which are the originals, are a little scratched.

Please email dennis@nscalesales.com if you require a specific Box Number/s.
Product ID 0438
Manufacturer Athearn
  ISBN 11746
Date Added
12/19/2022
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This is one of the body styles acquired by Athearn from MDC in June of 2004 and re-run under the Athearn Brand. Thrall was a recognizable freight car manufacturing company in the 1960s to 1980s. Their designs still carry on today. The company focused on building specialized freight cars including high side gondolas, and rotary-dump gondolas for coal. In the 1980s, Thrall acquired five competing railcar manufacturers and became the largest such manufacturer of these cars in the United States.

In the 1960s, coal haulage shifted from open hopper cars to high-sided gondolas. Using a gondola, the railroads are able to haul a larger amount of coal per car since gondolas do not include the equipment needed for unloading. However, since these cars do not have hatches for unloading the products shipped in them, railroads must use rotary car dumpers (mechanisms that hold a car against a short section of track as the car and track are slowly rotated upside down to empty the car) or other means to empty them.
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