Not your average box car ... incredibly popular among shippers numbering beyond the hundreds of thousands. These specially equipped insulated box cars were cushioned from slack action, protected with load equipment to prevent shifting loads, and insulated from extremes in temperature. Serving the food industry primarily, they were used by any shipper requiring a constant temperature and a nice cushioned ride.

Wheels of Time brings you the 50-ft Pacific Car & Foundry Insulated Loader-Equipped box car*. The first time this car has been produced in N-Scale, this model has above average detailing, giving you the full flavor of these modern workhorses; Perfect for your model railroading adventures from the mid-60s to now.

Model Features:

Railroad specific options include single or double Youngstown plug doors and Hydra-Cushion or Keystone cushioning details. Our cars will ride at the proper height on realistic trucks with metal wheelsets; have body-mounted couplers like the real thing; have realistic underframe details; even have rivets at the side seams, and with the ultra-precise Wheels of Time tooling and authentic and attractive lettering and decoration you’ve come to expect from Wheels of Time.

*These 70-ton Plate C cars were considered bunkerless refrigerator cars or insulated box cars and carried the mechanical designation of RBL or XLI, respectively. They were assigned to temperature sensitive commodities such as dried foods, canned goods, jar goods, drinks, packaged foods (rice, pasta, cereals), pet foods, nursery plants, seeds and xmas trees. PC&F (now known as PACCAR) had it’s beginnings making railroad logging cars. But the company has a varied history: they were involved in making the armour for Sherman tanks during WW2, OEM of heavy duty trucks (Kenworth c. 1945, Peterbilt c. 1958), and of course, specialized in refrigerator car manufacturing & repair, finally exiting the railroad OEM business in 1984. It continues today as a one of the largest class 8 truck manufacturers worldwide. .