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We have the new Moloco models of the St. Cloud built 50' plug and sliding door steel boxcars in stock in three paint schemes and twelve car numbers. Come and get them 

We placed our orders with Rapido May 5, 2026. The preorder window is closed, with total sales of 110 units vs our 100 unit order minimum. Thank you for your support! Mac

These GN 35000 series cars by Moloco are models of 50’ 6” inside length St. Cloud built steel double sliding door box cars with a 15-foot clear opening. The left sliding door was 7 feet wide, and the right sliding door was 8 feet wide, GST code B7. During 1956 Great Northern’s St. Cloud shops began a multiple year project to build 50’ 6”, 50-ton capacity cars, with wide side doors. All 1,000 of the 35000 series cars had a distinctive triangular reinforcing gusset adjacent to the doors. Capacity was 100,000 pounds as built, increased to 110,000 pounds in 1963....

Life Along the Tracks is an 'I was there' type book about the career of Mike McLaughlin who rode NP and MILW switch engines in Seattle in the early 1950's. In 1955 at age 17 Mike went to work as a GN section man in the Seattle area, and in a not really successful effort to escape shovel work, soon went to the Signal Department of the GN in Western Washington. The book is a collection of short stories from his career on the GN, the Rock Island, and the Rio Grande, and as Traffic Manager for two large rail...

With Christmas closing in, I would like to announce that arrival of this unit is imminent, but it is not. I can announce that they are now in production, which means they should be here in June of 2026.