HomeShops HFB-030-003 QNE Quebec and New England #572189 - Rapido PC&F 5258 50' Double Door Box Car HO Scale

A Limited Edition Rapido Trains PC&F 5258 50' Double Door Box Car painted for freelance model railroad Quebec and New England!  Road Number Variant: QNE 572189.

The Quebec and New England is an exceptional freelance model railroad that we are delighted to have in the Home Shops family!  The striking Red-and-Black paint scheme looks amazing on the QNE locomotive fleet.  Road owner Sheldon Frankel has done an awesome job of promoting this great model railroad on the QNERailroad YouTube channel which has over 150 video episodes uploaded. 

The Home Shops QNE B70 boxcar is the first-ever factory-painted piece of rolling stock produced for this railroad.   

As the demand grew in the 70s for larger capacity boxcars, along with the need to replace aging 40’ cars, this series of 50’ double door boxes was produced by PC&F between 1972 and 1975.  These boxcars are 50’-7” in length with a capacity of either 5258 cu ft for standard cars, or 5119 cu ft for those equipped for DF (Damage Free) Loading. All B-70 boxcars feature Hydra-Cushion underframes and were delivered with either Youngstown or Superior doors.

The PC&F 5258 is an amazing car for freelance application!  Many freelance model railroads handle paper products at one end of the journey from origin to destination.  This car type also could plausibly have been used in general merchandise service hauling any of a wide variety of commodities.

The Rapido Trains HO scale QNE PC&F 5258 boxcar features:

• Separately applied metal grab irons
• Scale sized draft gear with a detailed Hydra-Cushion underframe
• Full underbody brake rigging
• Multiple door styles as appropriate for each fleet
• Road number specific number patches
• Separately applied coupler cut levers
• Superior double sliding doors (four forklift grooves)
• Separate door tracks
• Factory-installed Rapido semi-scale knuckle couplers
• Newly tooled 70 ton trucks with turned metal 33” wheels