Past 86 Quad Dr

87031 Missouri Pacific (KOG) quad door single car.
MoPac assigned this group of cars to their subsidiary Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf, resulting in the KOG reporting marks.

87011 Union Pacific (MP) quad door single car; 87012 Union Pacific (MP) 2-pack.
This paint scheme first appeared after Union Pacific ’s merger with MoPac and Western Pacific in 1982.

87021 Milwaukee Road quad door single car. Essentially wearing it ’s “as-built ”paint job, this car received a Plate Stencil,Con-Stencil and an ACI tag within a few years as shown here.

87041 B&O quad door single car; 87042 B&O 2-pack.
Pullman Standard built the large batch of quad door cars for the Baltimore & Ohio in 1965. B&O classed them as M-86 and initially assigned them for loading in Parma, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana for destinations across the map.

87051 New York Central quad door single car; 87052 NYC 2-pack.
This batch of cars was built in 1966, classed by NYC as "104B" and initially assigned for loading by Chevy in Flint, Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western. This is another example of auto parts cars belonging to a multi-railroad pool assigned for loading (and unloading, for that matter) off home rails.

87061 Conrail (large logo) Quad Door single car, 87062 2-pack.
The first months of the Conrail merger produced a number of cars lettered with stencils pieced together from former Penn Central and Erie Lackawanna stencils. But by the summer of 1976, proper Conrail stencils were in place at the major shops and cars like this began to appear. Later years would see a refinement in the look culminating in the Conrail Quality image in the 90s.

87071 Penn Central single car, 87072 2-pack.
87071 Penn Central quad door single car, 87072 2-pack.Penn Central inherited their quad door car fleet from both New York Central and Pennsylvania. The combined PC fleet of 86 ’ boxcars was the largest in the nation, with Conrail inheriting the title after 1976. This group was assigned for loading at a Chevy plant in Flint, Michigan on the Grand Trunk Western for delivery to Chevy assembly lines across the country.

87081 Missouri Pacific “Screaming Eagle” quad door single car, 87082 2-pack. Missouri Pacific purchased 86 ’ boxcars under the auspices of MP, Texas &Pacific, and Kansas Oklahoma & Gulf subsidiaries, plus inheriting some from Chicago & Eastern Illinois. In the late 70s, as the Screaming Eagle logo began to supplant the old buzzsaw, MP was already changing the reporting marks of these subsidiary cars to MP. This paint scheme was being applied by the MoPac right up to the acquisition by Union Pacific in 1983.

87091 Union Pacific “automated rail way ” quad door single car, 87092 2-pack.This batch of cars appeared on the UP in the summer of 1964 in this paint scheme.The shield includes the word “RAILROAD ” which was standard for UP in the 60 ’s.This batch also included the small version of the reporting marks.The “automated rail way ” logo had evolved over the years with this version featuring a more playful lettering style,larger map,and “CUSHIONED LOAD ” replacing “CUSHION RIDE.” These cars were initially assigned for loading at a Chevy plant on the New York Central in Cleveland. Due to particularly complex decoration on these cars,projected MSRP for the single is $27.95,and $55.90 for the 2-pack.

87101 Pennsylvania quad door single car, 87102 2-pack. Pennsylvania received this group of quad-door cars in 1965 whereupon they were assigned to carrying Chevy body panels. GM, as a rule, preferred quad-door cars over their double door cohorts. Unlike most PRR double door cars, this batch of quad door cars had black ends (probably “car-cement” rather than black paint) and we are replicating this detail on our run.