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Box Car -40ft Metal 5238
Box Car -40ft PS-1
Box Car -40ft Rivarossi 5279
Box Car -40ft Wood-Sheathed
Box Car -50ft Combination Door
Box Car -50ft Double-Plug Door
Box Car -50ft Plug Door
Box Car -60ft Single Door
Box Car -Old Time
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Caboose -Old Time
Caboose -Old Time Drover's
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Calcium Carbide Car
Cattle Car -40ft. -1st Version
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Cattle Car -40ft. -3rd Version Hong Kong/Taiwan
Center Flow Hopper
Coil Car
Container Carrier
Covered Hopper -47ft.
Crane Car
Flat Car
Flat Car -Old Time
Flat Car with 2 Autos
Flat Car with Bridge Load
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Flat Car with Cable Reels -Lima
Flat Car with Cable Reels
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Flat Car w/Truck Load
Flat Car -16 Wheel with Load
Flexi-Flow Hopper
Gondola -Old Time
Gondola -40ft
Gondola w/Load -40ft.
Gondola -50ft. Outside Braced
Gondola -50ft.
Gondola 50-foot -Hong Kong
Helium Carrier
Hopper Car -40ft Open
Hopper -50ft. Ribbed Side
Horse Car -Old Time
Log Car
Palace Stock Car
Pulpwood Car
Ore Car
Reefer -40ft Private Owner
Reefer -41ft
Reefer -50ft. Outside Braced
Reefer -50ft. Smooth Side
Reefer -50ft Thermo King
Stock Car -50ft.
Stock Car -Old Time
Tank Car -50ft. In-Transit Heated
Tank Car -Chemcial Tank 40ft.
Tank Car -Single Dome 5276
Tank Car -40ft.
Tank Car -40ft Three-Dome
Tank Car -40ft Six-Dome
Tank Car -62ft. Single-Dome
Tank Car -Old Time 6255
Tank Car -Old Time
Track Cleaning Car
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Catalogs

Flat Car with Bridge Load
Burlington Northern
No. 5481-03

Flat Car with Bridge Load
Conrail
No. 5481-02

Flat Car with Bridge Load
Delaware & Hudson 
No. 5481-04

Flat Car with Bridge Load
Union Pacific
No. 5481-05

An early 1980s arrival to the AHM rolling stock collection was this 50' Flat Car with Bridge Load. The example in my collection is a green Burlington Northern. The car carries Hong Kong origin marks with CTC printed nearby. AHM rosters a handful of models in the early '80s that appear to match tooling used by the short-lived Pemco line. AHM examples have the CTC initials. The car is a typical 50' wood plank deck flat car. The Bridge Load is made of a pair of cast orange beams held onto the car by a pair of cast brown fixtures that hold the beam and snap into the deck of the car. My BN example is a white cast flat car that has been sprayed Cascade Green with white lettering. The trucks are talgo and match the roller bearing type found on the Pemco releases. The AHM packaging is the typical cardboard blue and yellow box. Information on the box includes the note that AHM is a subsidiary of General Hobbies Corporation. Hong Kong origin for this model is also present on the box. The car is carried inside the box by a white plastic tray with clear cover. This is similar to the inner packaging found on Pemco items. Beyond Pemco and AHM, I know of no other company to offer this Flat Car with Bridge Load model.