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51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Boston and Maine
No. 1145
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Burlington Northern -Yellow
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Chessie System
No.1147
No.43-1010-09
Two examples of Bachmann's Chessie System plug-door are seen above.
The second example features Bachmann's modernized tooling for this car.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Chesapeake and Ohio
No.1141
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Conrail
No. 43-1010
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
CP Rail
No.1146
Bachmann's catalogs included this car, with white lettering and a black and white CP multi-mark
logo, and it was not exclusive to the Canadian market.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Erie Lackawanna
No.43-1010-G4 -1986 Release
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Frisco
No. 43-1010-84 -1986 Release
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Illinois Central
No. 1144
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
McCloud River
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Middletown & New Jersey
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Milwaukee
No. 43-1010-68 -1986 Release
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Minnesota Dakota & Western
No.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Penn Central
No.1142
No.43-1010-32
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Providence & Worcester
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Reading
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Rock Island
No.43-1010
The above example features Bachmann's modernized tooling for the 50ft.
Plug-Door. There are many variations to Bachmann's The Rock 50ft. Plug-Door, including examples with the original roofwalk
style tooling and different paint applications.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Santa Fe -El Capitan
No.0813
There may be an interesting story behind this car, but I don't know it. This appears to be a
TYCO Santa Fe box car in a Bachmann box. At first, you would assume it is a simple case of box and car being mismatched.
Bachmann does however display this same TYCO car in its late '70s product catalogs. I have also examined a number of
examples and it does appear to be a TYCO produced car sold by Bachmann. The car carries the TYCO name on the underframe.
Bachmann also sold TYCO's 40' Skid Flat with Culvert Pipes for a short time. Again, there may be a good story on it,
but I have no further information.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Santa Fe
No. 1143
Bachmann's Santa Fe 51' Plug-Door Box Car may exist in at least two different paint schemes.
The catalog entry in the rolling stock section generally displays a red car with a large black and white Santa Fe herald on
the car's right side. The Shock Control lettering is placed on the left side of the car above the ATSF reporting marks.
Bachmann's catalogs also present a Santa Fe example in train set offerings that is different. This train set pictured
car is similarly lettered to the well-knwon TYCO example and includes the small square Santa Fe herald on the car's left side
and the El Capitan information on the right side.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Thrill Show
No.43-1010
Included in Bachmann's early 1980s Thrill Show train set offering.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Triangle Pacific
1986-1987 No.43-1010-K3
This red Bachmann 50ft. Plug-Door decorated for Triangle Pacific
has some variations to its offerings. The car was frequently included in some of Bachmann's infamous train sets
of the late '80s/early '90s when the company was making some very, very simplified paint applications. Those examples
feature less printing and white only lettering.
51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car
Union Pacific -Red
No.43-1010
One of seven new body styles added to the HO-scale rolling stock line by
Bachmann in 1972 is the 51' Steel Plug-Door Box Car. The car lists for $3.00 in '72 and is initially listed with six
roadnames: B&M, C&O, CP Rail, IC, PC, and Santa Fe. An N-guage Pennsy example is shown in the
catalog to represent this car in 1972, though Pennsyvlania is not among the roadnames listed for the car.
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