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RailSmith - COSF Set 1 - Passenger Car, Lightweight, Pullman - Various - 4-Pack

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Stock NumberCOSF Set 1
Original Retail Price$156.00
BrandRailSmith
ManufacturerRailSmith
Body StyleWalthers Passenger Car Pullman Mixed Set
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
Prototype VehiclePassenger Car, Lightweight, Pullman (Details)
Road or Company NameVarious (Details)
Road or Reporting Number4-Pack
Paint Color(s)Yellow and Gray
Print Color(s)Red
Coupler TypeAccuMate Magnetic Knuckle
Coupler MountTruck-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileStandard
MultipackYes
Multipack Count4
Release Date2019-09-01
Item CategoryPassenger Cars
Model TypeLightweight/Streamlined
Model SubtypePullman Smoothside
Model VarietyMixed
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era III: Transition (1939 - 1957)
Scale1/160



Specific Item Information: This selection consists of four cars listed: Sleeper ‘Stoney Rapids‘, Sleeper‘9036‘, Sleeper‘9037‘ and fluted coach ‘2424’. All of these cars were assigned the trans-continental trains and commonly found on the City of San Francisco or the San Francisco Overland.
Model Information: RailSmith released sets of mixed body styles in the Pullman lightweight series starting in 2019.
Prototype History:
In the post-war period, passenger rail service boomed. In order to increase efficiency, the railroads set to replacing their old wood, steel and concrete heavyweight passenger cars with newer lightweight, streamlined cars. The new cars were made from stainless steel, aluminum and Cor-Ten steel. These cars required less motive power to pull and were cheaper to manufacture. Production was also concentrated in a few manufacturers rather than each railroad making its own. This led to standardization which further reduced costs. The new "lightweight" cars were also given "streamlined" designs to make them more visually appealing. Budd, Pullman Standard and ACF were all well known manufacturers of these cars.

The Pullman Standard company successfully transitioned from the production of traditional heavyweight passenger cars to the new streamlined models.
Road Name History:
This set of items is comprised of more than one name. Please look at the component items for details on the specific roadnames and/or manufacturers.
Brand/Importer Information:
RailSmith is a brand launched by Lowell Smith in 2019. Lowell acquired the toolings from Walthers.

With each release, RailSmith will bring passenger cars from across the spectrum of North America’s railroads, with the goal of building entire trains over a period-of-time. It is our plan to release cars that might be for a specific train, but you can use these cars as you see fit, as did the railroads.

Production plans are grand, but we believe they are also achievable. We do not have the capabilities to release an entire train at once, but being able to focus on one release (two-or-three cars at a time), we can build a train over time.
Item created by: gdm on 2020-01-27 14:24:49

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