Atlas O 2001240 - Trainman - 60' Coach Passenger Car "Santa Fe"

Road Name: Santa Fe Road Number: 3304, 3311, 3340, 3357 Product Line: Trainman Scale: O Scale System: 3-Rail Features:  Die-cast sprung trucks Full scale dimensions and details Separately-applied grab irons Interior LED lighting Separately-applied diaphragms Interior details Based upon C&NW protoypes Minimum diameter curve: O-36 (3-Rail) Overview: In the early 20th century, the rapid adoption of all-steel construction for passenger cars dramatically improved the safety and comfort of rail travel. These “heavyweight” cars, as they came to be known, were far less likely to catch fire than their mostly wooden counterparts, could withstand greater structural stresses in general operation, and as a result quickly became the premier choice of the traveling public. In the years immediately preceding World War II, however, due to the development of longer, aluminum sheathed “modern” streamliners, many original steel heavyweight cars were either rebuilt and restyled to run with the new