Passenger Cars: Doors: 3 Windows: 3 - Heavyweight Railway Post Office
Prototype Info
Era:
heavyweight
Car Type:
railway post office
Doors:
3
Windows:
3
Road Name:
(undecorated)
Model Manufacturer Info
Manufacturer:
American Hi-Rail
Gauge:
AF
Introduced:
1987
Product Type:
resin kit
Finish:
unpainted
Wheels:
not included
Couplers:
not included
Decals:
not included
Lighted:
no
Notes:
This was a body-only kit, supposedly based on the A.C. Gilbert #950 car. However, there is no record of A.C.G. producing a #950 car in S-scale (it might be that it was an HO-scale car product ID, upon which this model was based). At the time of production, the company offered an American Flyer chassis, separately.
(image copyright © Dick Karnes; used by permission)
This model was built and finished by the late Vic Roseman. He used American Models trucks.
(image copyright © American Hi-Rail)
The 1994 catalog photo scanned by Eric Reis.
(image copyright © Holt Apgar; used by permission)
Early in American Hi-Rail's production their shells were imprinted with the Instrument Design, Inc., the owner's parent company. Holt Apgar bought his with the separately-available chassis. Bob Comstock painted and lettered model.
(image copyright © Jeff Madden; used by permission)
This was the 1994 Fall S Fest car.