Looking for the ideal carrier car for your piggyback trailers, in the colors of a major Canadian railroad? The Rapido Trains Marine Industries piggyback flatcar in CP Rail colors is exactly that essential piece. Purpose-built for TOFC (trailer-on-flatcar) service, it handles both 26' trailers and longer ones, up to the 45' standard — enough to carry every Can-Car and Trailmobile trailer in your collection. Shorter than 89' TOFC flatcars, it also negotiates tighter curves, a plus for many layouts.
What sets this model apart is the prototype fidelity Rapido is known for. Drawn from original blueprints, it recreates one of the 305 cars Canadian Pacific ordered from Marine Industries Limited (MIL) of Sorel QC. in 1972, delivered in the 505625-505930 series and kept in service through several rebuilding programs. Heavy die-cast center sill, photo-etched deck, wire grab irons, and two styles of hitches (upright or collapsed) installable by the modeler: everything is there for a realistic, weighty car, ready to run, alone or in long intermodal cuts.
Features
- Marine Industries (MIL) piggyback (TOFC) flatcar
- CP Rail livery
- Based on the 305 cars ordered by CP in 1972 (505625-505930 series)
- Drawn from original blueprints, artwork from original design drawings
- Handles trailers from 26' to 45'
- Shorter than 89' TOFC flatcars: negotiates tighter curves
- Heavy die-cast center sill
- Photo-etched deck surface
- Two styles of hitches (upright and collapsed), modeler-installable
- Wire grab irons
- Ready to run
- Ideal for layouts from the 1970s to the 1980s
- Recommended minimum curve radius: 18"
- HO Scale
- Made by Rapido Trains
Looking for the ideal carrier car for your piggyback trailers, in the colors of a major Canadian railroad? The Rapido Trains Marine Industries piggyback flatcar in CP Rail colors is exactly that essential piece. Purpose-built for TOFC (trailer-on-flatcar) service, it handles both 26' trailers and longer ones, up to the 45' standard — enough to carry every Can-Car and Trailmobile trailer in your collection. Shorter than 89' TOFC flatcars, it also negotiates tighter curves, a plus for many layouts.
What sets this model apart is the prototype fidelity Rapido is known for. Drawn from original blueprints, it recreates one of the 305 cars Canadian Pacific ordered from Marine Industries Limited (MIL) of Sorel QC. in 1972, delivered in the 505625-505930 series and kept in service through several rebuilding programs. Heavy die-cast center sill, photo-etched deck, wire grab irons, and two styles of hitches (upright or collapsed) installable by the modeler: everything is there for a realistic, weighty car, ready to run, alone or in long intermodal cuts.
Features
- Marine Industries (MIL) piggyback (TOFC) flatcar
- CP Rail livery
- Based on the 305 cars ordered by CP in 1972 (505625-505930 series)
- Drawn from original blueprints, artwork from original design drawings
- Handles trailers from 26' to 45'
- Shorter than 89' TOFC flatcars: negotiates tighter curves
- Heavy die-cast center sill
- Photo-etched deck surface
- Two styles of hitches (upright and collapsed), modeler-installable
- Wire grab irons
- Ready to run
- Ideal for layouts from the 1970s to the 1980s
- Recommended minimum curve radius: 18"
- HO Scale
- Made by Rapido Trains