Moloco HO 75058-02 Omaha 50′ Combo Door Box Car, Union Pacific #163866

BC-50-5 “We Can Handle It”
PO 11-75

In 1959 the Omaha shops of the Union Pacific designed and built combination door boxcars to add to the then current fledgling 50′ combination boxcar fleet. This class of boxcar was the largest combination boxcar that Omaha built at 800 strong along with the almost identical BC-50-6 class of 300 cars for a total of 1100 cars being built in 1959 and 1960. The utility of the 15’2″ door opening afforded the UP a very flexible workhorse for their growing 50′ fleet. Mainly employed in forest products trade like lumber, plywood, pulpboard and paper, they also were used in other diverse service for bagged minerals, feeds, machinery, brick, brass, copper or aluminium ingot service. They were free-runners so these are just a few examples of anything anywhere cars.

FEATURES:
Differing lettering placements for individual car numbers for repainted cars
Car number specific handbrakes, Ajax, Ellcon-National, Equipco, Klasing or Universal
Omaha designed frame along with NSF nailable steel floors
Multiple versions of door stops, and grab irons define the two classes
Durable rubber air hoses and metal corner stirrups
50-ton trucks with metal wheels and axles, type matched to prototype
Highly detailed Stanray R3-4 ends uniquely used to this design, along with ladders
Researched accurate lettering, from the smallest stencils to the nuisances of repainted cars
Kadee “Scale” Whisker couplers