Flat Car with Trailer Load
New Haven with Int'l Forwarder
Trailers
No. 5483-C
Flat Car with Trailer Load
Penn Central with Sea Land Trailers
No. 5483-B
Flat Car with Trailer Load
Santa Fe with Cotton Belt Trailers
Flat Car with Trailer Load
Union Pacific with Rock Island
Trailers
No. 5483-D
AHM's 50-foot Flat Car with Trailers release is a 1970s offering with
Taiwan origin marks on the flat car. This is a Kader tooling and one of a handful of models AHM imported from Kader in the
mid-to-late 1970s. The flat car measures 50-feet exactly end to end and not counting its couplers. The trucks are friction
bearing design and match models in Bachmann and Lionel-HO lines of this same period, as Kader produced them all. The trucks
have plastic wheels and axels and X2F couplers are mounted to the trucks. The trucks are held by plastic plugs securing them
to the car's underframe. The flat car underframe is a one piece casting and the bed with simulated wood deck snaps into the
underframe. Weights are housed inside the two pieces. The trailers ride in separately cast and applied frames that plug
into the flat car bed. A brake wheel stands in a pocket located on one end of the flat car. The trailers are removable from
the flat car. The trailer's upper structure is a single casting measuring 20-feet long, 8-feet wide, and 12-feet tall including
the bogie wheels. The trailer itself has an 8-foot height. No origin/maker marks are present on the trailer toolings. The
underframe is black cast plastic and the wheels are multi-part separate pieces that snap into place without cement. The trailer
stands may be swung up for positioning on a tractor. A hole is provided that appears able to work with tractor cabs from
TYCO. I do not know of any tractors produced by AHM to accompany and support this trailer release.
The flat car with trailers has a total weight of 3.25 ounces.
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