PRECISION DESIGN
DECALS, 56' 8" BULKHEAD FLAT CAR 160300 to 160324
Regular price
$4.00
Great Northern supplied bulkhead flat cars for transportation of lumber, plywood, wallboard, aluminum ingots, pipe, pilings, telephone poles, and granite blocks.
These 25 cars were bulkhead flat cars with 56’ 8” inside length built by General Steel Industries in 1966. They were equipped with 10” FreightMaster end of car cushion devices.
Capacity was 180,000 pounds.
Body color was glacier green.
FreightMaster 10” end of car cushion draft gear.
Use Tangent car.
Builders photos from GNRHS Archives.
These superb decals are from the Precision Design Company in Canada. They were developed with information provided by GNRHS member Richard Yaremko.
See:
1968 Freight Car Diagram Book, page D 111.
No photo in Scott R. Thompson, Great Northern Equipment Color Pictorial Book 2.