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Kato USA - 106-5503 - Autorack, Enclosed, Aluminum - Canadian National - 712800, 712810, 712831, 712864

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N Scale - Kato USA - 106-5503 - Autorack, Enclosed, Aluminum - Canadian National - 712800, 712810, 712831, 712864
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Stock Number106-5503
Original Retail Price$90.00
BrandKato USA
ManufacturerKato
Body StyleKato Autorack Enclosed Aluminum
PrototypeAutorack, Enclosed, Aluminum
Road or Company NameCanadian National (Details)
Reporting MarksCNA
Road or Reporting Number712800, 712810, 712831, 712864
Paint Color(s)Aluminum
Print Color(s)Black
Coupler TypeKato Operating Knuckle
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileSmall Flange (Low Profile)
MultipackYes
Multipack Count4
Multipack ID Number106-5503
Release Date2014-02-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeAutorack
Model SubtypeEnclosed
Model VarietyAluminum
Scale1/160



Model Information: Kato introduced this model in 2014. It is only available in 4-packs. with 4 different road numbers in each. It is a fairly simple model with truck-mounted couplers (really!), chemically blackened wheels and not much else. It has a lot of interesting fine detail printing on it but not much else makes it special other than you have to own at least one pack if you are going to model Amtrak on the US East coast. These cars have a modern (2004+) appearance matching the Amtrak body style (CP and CN versions will use finely printed detail to replicate the perforations along the side of the body).
Road Name History:
The Canadian National Railway Company (reporting mark CN) is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN's slogan is "North America's Railroad". CN is a public company with 24,000 employees. It had a market capitalization of 32 billion CAD in 2011. CN was government-owned, having been a Canadian Crown corporation from its founding to its privatization in 1995. Bill Gates was, in 2011, the largest single shareholder of CN stock.

CN is the largest railway in Canada, in terms of both revenue and the physical size of its rail network, and is currently Canada's only transcontinental railway company, spanning Canada from the Atlantic coast in Nova Scotia to the Pacific coast in British Columbia. Its range once reached across the island of Newfoundland until 1988, when the Newfoundland Railway was abandoned.

Following CN's purchase of Illinois Central (IC) and a number of smaller US railways, it also has extensive trackage in the central United States along the Mississippi River valley from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, CN owns about 20,400 route miles (32,831 km) of track in 8 provinces (the only two not served by CN are Newfoundland & Labrador and Prince Edward Island), as well as a 70-mile (113 km) stretch of track (see Mackenzie Northern Railway) into the Northwest Territories to Hay River on the southern shore of Great Slave Lake; it is the northernmost rail line anywhere within the North American Rail Network, as far north as Anchorage, Alaska (although the Alaska Railroad goes further north than this, it is isolated from the rest of the rail network).

The railway was referred to as the Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and as Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to the present.

Read more on Wikipedia.
Brand/Importer Information:
KATO U.S.A. was established in 1986, with the first U.S. locomotive model (the GP38-2, in N-Scale) released in 1987. Since that time, KATO has come to be known as one of the leading manufacturers of precision railroad products for the modeling community. KATO's parent company, Sekisui Kinzoku Co., Ltd., is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

In addition to producing ready-to-run HO and N scale models that are universally hailed for their high level of detail, craftsmanship and operation, KATO also manufactures UNITRACK. UNITRACK is the finest rail & roadbed modular track system available to modelers today. With the track and roadbed integrated into a single piece, UNITRACK features a nickel-silver rail and a realistic-looking roadbed. Patented UNIJOINERS allow sections to be snapped together quickly and securely, time after time if necessary.

The Kato U.S.A. office and warehouse facility is located in Schaumburg, Illinois, approximately 30 miles northwest of Chicago. All research & development of new North American products is performed here, in addition to the sales and distribution of merchandise to a vast network of wholesale representatives and retail dealers. Models requiring service sent in by hobbyists are usually attended to at this location as well. The manufacturing of all KATO products is performed in Japan.

Supporters of KATO should note that there is currently no showroom or operating exhibit of models at the Schaumburg facility. Furthermore, model parts are the only merchandise sold directly to consumers. (Please view the Parts Catalog of this website for more specific information.)
Item created by: gdm on 2016-03-06 13:41:06. Last edited by gdm on 2020-05-26 15:37:34

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