Bachmann 19902 HO Scale American Freedom Train 72' Exhibit Car #102

This HO scale model represents American Freedom Train display car #102, one of ten walk-through exhibit cars in the 1975-1976 Bicentennial train that drew more than seven million visitors. Converted from New York Central baggage car #9158, the prototype carried the "Exploration and Expansion" collection, including the original Louisiana Purchase document, the Gadsden Purchase, a Lewis and Clark expedition journal and a lunar sample returned by Apollo 16. Car #102 carries the artwork panels for the 1796-1806 and 1806-1816 decades. Bachmann reproduces the car's backlit shadow boxes and artwork panels, printed courtesy of FreedomTrain.org, over the train's white, red and blue livery. The model has a detailed painted body with precision graphics, detailed trucks with see-through sideframes, blackened metal wheels with RP25 contours and added weight for optimum tracking, and it is fitted with kinematic magnetically operated E-Z Mate Mark II knuckle couplers for operation on tighter radius curves. The car measures 11.5" long.