Micro-Trains, N Scale, 18100190, 50' Box Car with Plug Door, Chesapeake Ohio, #482497

Release Date: September 2021

Rd# 482497

This 50’ standard box car with 8’ plug door no roofwalk and short ladders is blue with yellow lettering and runs on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1967, this class B-74A boxcar was used in general service by Chessie System. It was shopped and repainted and upgraded in the early 1980s, and continued in service through the 1990s. In 1972, Chessie System was formed through the mergers of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Western Maryland Railway and was headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.