Santa Fe

22011-03
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Starting in 1960 the modern era of Topeka Shops built double doored car began. The Santa Fe wanted to modernize their fleet of Fe type boxcars. During this period were great advancements in boxcars with roller bearing trucks, cushion underframes and restraining or loader equipped cars to better realize customers needs in the competitive freight carrying business.

The first car offered by Moloco in this series of cars is the pinnicale of “Double Plug” Topeka XM designed cars, the Fe-34. The 400 strong series along with their close cousins the 100 series Fe-33 Grain-doored cars. Even though the cars were classified as XM or general purpose boxcars and utilized as free-runners, a select few were assigned to certain points to serve specific customers. Topeka was keen to specify on the stencilling, IMPORTANT-This Car Not Suitable for Bulk Loading. As can be predicted with a series so large that specific details would vary for different purposes or specification. For instance the series selected for the first release, the April 1964 cars carried wooden floors of various types (Apitong, Doweloc or Yellow Pine), where as the series above and below them had Nailable Steel Floors.

So succesfull was this design they were used as specification templates for the later car builder built Fe-37, -38, -39 classes by Pullman Standard, American Car & Foundry and General American respectively.

True scale and true to life miniature model for adult collectors.
Not suitable for children under 14 years.