Bachmann HO 18937 52' Wheel Flat Car with Wheel Load, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe #198234

With the friction created from steel riding on steel, wheels on locomotives and rolling stock periodically need to be replaced for safety and smooth performance. When being delivered by rail, new wheels are typically transported on flatcars that have been built or modified for this specific purpose. The Bachmann 52' Wheel Flatcar represents examples of this car found from the 1950s through the early-2000s, the prototypes of which were modified from earlier general-use flatcars. Features of the model include a newly tooled wheel transport rack and load of separate wheelsets, all finished in an authentic oxide brown. FEATURES: New and existing tooling Highly detailed painted bodies with precision graphics Removable plastic wheel load Magnetically operated E-Z Mate Mark II couplers Blackened machined metal running wheels with RP25 contours