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Atlas - 50 002 549 - Boxcar, 50 Foot, ACF Precision Design - Rock Island - 36114

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Stock Number50 002 549
Original Retail Price$25.95
BrandAtlas
ManufacturerAtlas
Body StyleAtlas Boxcar 50 Foot Precision Design
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
Prototype VehicleBoxcar, 50 Foot, ACF Precision Design (Details)
Road or Company NameRock Island (Details)
Reporting MarksRI
Road or Reporting Number36114
Paint Color(s)Light Brown with a silver roof
Coupler TypeAccuMate Magnetic Knuckle
Wheel TypeInjection Molded Plastic
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
Announcement Date2015-11-04
Release Date2016-08-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeBoxcar
Model Subtype50 Foot
Model VarietyACF Precision Design
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era IV: 2nd Gen Diesel (1958 - 1978)
Scale1/160



Model Information: This model was introduced in 2002 and is made in China. It comes in two variants: Rib side or Smoothside.
It features:
  • a prototypically detailed body with realistic ladders, brake wheel and see-through end crossover walkway;
  • detailed die-cast metal underframe;
  • separate brake system;
  • air reservoir;
  • 70-ton roller-bearing trucks;
  • accurate painting and printing details.
Prototype History:
The 50' boxcar had largely replaced its 40 foot predecessor by the 1960s. With the advent of the Per Diem rules, production of 50 foot steel boxcars by all tyhe major manufacturers really took off. ACF (American Car & Foundry) was no exception. This model was built by ACF (American Car and Foundry) in the late 1960's and early 1970's. It was delivered in both smooth side and rib side versions. This boxcar features a single sliding door and no roof-walk. Conrail took possession of about 1,000 of these cars from the Penn Central that were built and delivered in 1971. The Illinois Central took delivery of 200 50' ACF boxcars in April of 1967. The cars are easily identifiable with their indented panel area to the right of the 10' door
Road Name History:
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RR) (reporting marks RI, ROCK) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was better known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock. At the end of 1970 it operated 7183 miles of road on 10669 miles of track; that year it reported 20557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger-miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)

Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Construction began October 1, 1851, in Chicago, and the first train was operated on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Joliet. Construction continued on through La Salle, and Rock Island was reached on February 22, 1854, becoming the first railroad to connect Chicago with the Mississippi River.

In 1980 Rock Island was liquidated. The railroad's locomotives, rail cars, equipment, tracks, and real estate were sold to other railroads or to scrappers. William Gibbons (the trustee) was able to raise more than $500 million in the liquidation, paying off all the railroad's creditors, bondholders and all other debts in full at face value with interest. Henry Crown was ultimately proven correct, as both he and other bondholders who had purchased Rock Island debt for cents on the dollar during the low ebb in prices did especially well.

Read more on Wikipedia and Rock Island Technical Society.
Brand/Importer Information:
In 1924 Stephan Schaffan, Sr. founded the Atlas Tool Company in Newark, New Jersey. In 1933 his son, Stephan Schaffan, Jr., came to work for his father at the age of sixteen. Steve Jr. built model airplanes as a hobby and frequented a local hobby shop. Being an enterprising young man, he would often ask the owner if there was anything he could do to earn some extra spending money. Tired of listening to his requests, the hobby-store owner threw some model railroad track parts his way and said, "Here, see if you can improve on this".

In those days, railroad modelers had to assemble and build everything from scratch. Steve Jr. created a "switch kit" which sold so well, that the entire family worked on them in the basement at night, while doing business as usual in the machine shop during the day.

Subsequently, Steve Jr. engineered the stapling of rail to fiber track, along with inventing the first practical rail joiner and pre-assembled turnouts and flexible track. All of these products, and more, helped to popularize model railroading and assisted in the creation of a mass-market hobby. The budding entrepreneur quickly outgrew the limitations of a basement and small garage operation. Realizing they could actually make a living selling track and related products, Steve and his father had the first factory built in Hillside, New Jersey at 413 Florence Avenue in 1947. On September 30, 1949, the Atlas Tool Company was officially incorporated as a New Jersey company.

In 1985, Steve was honored posthumously for his inventions by the Model Railroad Industry Association and was inducted into the Model Railroad Industry Hall of Fame in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition, Steve was nominated and entered into the National Model Railroad Association Pioneers of Model Railroading in 1995.

In the early 1990s, the Atlas Tool Company changed its name to Atlas Model Railroad Company, Inc.
Item created by: nscalemodeler160 on 2016-08-05 22:53:12. Last edited by gdm on 2018-04-03 22:31:28

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