Available in 3 options: the mow flat car, the keystone container service flat car, and the foamite firefighting car.
These highly detailed kits include correct trucks and many details. Brass wire to build grab handles and other details is also included.
The F31 was originally designed for the PRR keystone container service. This 70 ton flat car held 8 keystone container service containers. At the time of its introduction this was the longest car in the PRR freight roster. When a full car load of containers was not typical to many destinations, the existing FM flat cars were more than capable of taking on the task of the keystone container service. The 8 container F31 was retired to m.o.w. service early in its lifespan. Here some were kept as container cars to haul containers for the PRR m.o.w operations. Most were converted to a standard flat car. and 5 were converted to foamite firefighting cars. There were a few more converted to sell to other railroads at a later date when a larger portion of the flat cars went out of service.
The container car F31 includes 8 DD1A containers to assemble on to the car as you would like. I have the model with all 8 containers built and put in place, but the reality would be 5-7 containers as a common load. If you wish to have more containers we also offer more DD1A and SD1 style containers for purchase separately.
We recommend brass details and quality decal kits to bring out the realism of our cars. These are not included in kits at this time.
You will need to provide your wheels and couplers. Bachman 78502 couplers work well, or any of this style.
