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Flat Car with Missile Great Northern
No. 1225
Bachmann lists this car as being a Great Northern
lettered item, though the catalog's flat is basic black with no printing on it. I have no located any examples of this
model to confirm its actual production or appearance to date.
Flat Car with Missile U.S. Air Force
No. 1225
One of four new rolling stock items added to the Bachmann HO-scale
line in 1974 is the 52-foot Depressed Center Flat Car with Missile Load. Bachmann lists the car as being a Great Northern
lettered item, though the catalog's flat is basic black with no printing on it in the 1974 picture. Listed again in
1975 as a new item, this time out the flat is listed as being lettered for U.S. Air Force, though it appears to be the same
undecorated flat from the 1974 catalog. The car carries a $4.00 suggested retail price in 1974.
The tooling of the flat car and its triple trucks
appears to closely resemble Roco's similar item produced for AHM beginning in the late 1960s. The model has remained
with Bachmann through current times and has received revisions including knuckle couplers and metal wheels as part of the
company's Silver Series HO-scale freight car line.
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