| Classic kit from the Craftsman Era of HO kits. Very detailed and well made kit. Silver Streak was one of a number of manufactures that created very realistic wood and metal kits during the 1940s and 1950s. This is, in my opinion, an exceptional kit. Excellent metal sprung trucks are included. Features pre-scribed and cut and factory painted and lettered hardwood sides decorated with 'Great Northern Railway Ventilator - Refrigerator / Western Fruit Express' in bright yellow with black designs and all other required markings in black, fully milled and cut hardwood roof and floor, fully cut, prescribed and painted bristol board car ends, metal door hardware and cast brake parts including levers, cast coupler pockets, underside girders, bolsters, ice hatches, brake wheel, metal ladders, grab irons, roof ribs and brake linkage, scale chain and more. This kit has complete underside detail and instructions to help with this tricky but rewarding task. Includes full size plans and instructions. The kit has never been started. Most parts are still internal factory sealed bags and those that were never bagged have been inventoried complete. If you have an interest in these kits and the revolution they created in modeling, please read the article about their history located on this website. Please cut and paste this link in your browser to see it - http://www.oldmodelkits.com/blog/plastic-model-kit-history/the-ho-scale-model-railroading-revolution-of-the-1940s/ |
