Description
The Atlas 50006768 is an N scale 42-foot coil steel car in Grand Trunk Western paint (CN's U.S. Midwest subsidiary), road number GTW #187411 — first of three coil steel cars in this Atlas run, the kind of car you'll see in unit-block service hauling steel coils from Stelco / Dofasco to U.S. auto plants.
Prototype. Coil steel cars are flat-deck cars with a recessed center trough that holds steel coils on edge, covered by removable hooded panels (or sometimes by two hinged "clamshell" hoods) to protect the steel from weather and theft in transit. Grand Trunk Western — CN's wholly-owned U.S. Midwest subsidiary, with mainlines from Chicago to Port Huron — inherited a fleet of Trinity-built 42-foot coil cars in the 1980s and 1990s, lettered for GTW with small "Web" sub-lettering (Web for Welland-built or for the in-house tracking nomenclature). Coil cars worked steel-producing centers like Hamilton (Stelco/Dofasco) and Sault Ste. Marie (Algoma) into U.S. auto plants in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.
Atlas build. Crisp painting and lettering, see-through walks (etched-metal-style walkways visible through the running boards), removable hood that lifts off to show interior floor detail — a popular feature with operators who like to load and unload their coil cars manually as part of operating sessions. Body-mounted AccuMate® couplers, 100-ton roller-bearing trucks.
Key Features
- Crisp painting and lettering
- See-through walks
- Removable hood reveals interior floor detail
- Inside floor detail
- Body-mounted AccuMate® couplers
- 100-ton roller-bearing trucks
Specifications
- Scale: N
- Type: 42′ Coil Steel Car
- Railroad: Grand Trunk Western (CN subsidiary)
- Road Number: GTW #187411
- Era: 1985–present
- Couplers: AccuMate® knuckle
- Brand: Atlas
- SKU / Item Number: 50006768
Pairs Well With
- Atlas 50006769 — same 42′ Coil Steel Car, GTW #187441
- Atlas 50006770 — same 42′ Coil Steel Car, GTW #187482 (run as a three-car block)
- Atlas 50006191 / 50006192 — CN 40′ DD Box Car pair