Atlas 50006615 N Scale Great Northern 70-Ton Hart Ballast Car #78069

Atlas Master N scale 70-ton Hart ballast car lettered for the Great Northern as #78069, in mineral red with black and white lettering. The full prototype name is the Hart Selective Service ballast car - the discharge-door system let crews dump ballast selectively inside the rails, outside, or both.

• Die-cast chassis for excellent tracking weight
• 70-ton friction bearing trucks, correct for the prototype era
• AccuMate offset-shank couplers
• Fully detailed interior with cross-bracing and side stiffeners, visible because the car rides open
• Accurate painting and printing in Great Northern mineral red
• Prototypes built by ACF between 1940 and 1953
• Released August 2023

Ballast cars are maintenance-of-way equipment, so this one is at home on a work train in almost any era of Great Northern operation - the road merged into Burlington Northern on 2 March 1970, which caps the scheme prototypically. Atlas photographs only one car of each number-pair, so imagery shows sister number 78024 in identical paint. Country of manufacture is inferred and the weight is a shipping estimate; Atlas publishes no barcode.