Description

This page is no longer a reservation… it is fully “live.” These will ship around July 1, 2026

In 1949, the CNW received 250 40′ auto cars from Pullman-Standard, car nos. 57400-57898, even nos. They had an unusual (for the time) inside height of 10’8″ and featured a beefed up, welded underframe different from the typical PS-1 welded underframe. These HO scale kits feature one-piece cast resin bodies and floor/underframe plus etchings, wire, Tichy AB brake parts, Moloco ASF A-3 trucks with 0.088″ width wheel treads and flexible angle cock/air hoses, Tangent Miner brake gears housing, Kadee Miner hand wheels and couplers, etched Apex Tri Lok running boards and brake steps, and decals printed by Cartograf with artwork created from CNW drawings. Modelers to provide paint, weathering media, and alternate details as called out in the instructions. $88 (click here for some background on our pricing) NOTE that some of these items may be substituted with similar quality items based upon availability at the time of shipment.

NOTE if you are outside the US, you may be asked to pay an additional shipping surcharge to cover the difference that will be invoiced via a separate PayPal transaction. You will have the option of rejecting that charge and having your entire order refunded.

To see the finished model, you can visit my blog: https://prototopics.blogspot.com/2023/10/chicago-and-north-western-40-riveted-ps.html

INSTRUCTIONS – k124 cnw ps-1 auto 1.2 (revised to 18 November 2023 with no major changes) 43.3 MB

pilot model shown prior to weathering and final finishing