N 50′ Pulpwood Flat Maine Central #7534 Green/Yellow

Features:

• Crisp painting and printing
• Durable body
• Free rolling trucks
• Detailed brakewheel
• Knuckle couplers

Prototype Info:

The pulpwood car was designed out of necessity, as previous logging style
cars were rebuilt out of boxcars or gondolas. The new design made it easy
to haul tree trunks, branches, and other cuts stacked in rows of two (With
the ends facing out) between two bulkheads bracketing each end. The Atlas
50’ Pulpwood Car was modeled after a SIECO design, with over 800 delivered
in the early 1979’s to the Southern Railway, alone. Over time, as demand
for pulpwood at mills has slowly decreased, these cars still serve a vital
purpose, hauling logs, telephone poles, and other long objects lengthwise
between the two bulkheads. The Atlas 50’ SIECO Pulpwood Flat would fit in
on your railroad hauling more pulpwood to the mill or bringing a load of
logs out of the forest to be cut down.