Bachmann 19903 HO Scale American Freedom Train 72' Exhibit Car #103

This HO scale exhibit car models American Freedom Train display car #103 as it appeared touring the country for the United States Bicentennial in 1975 and 1976 behind restored steam power. Rebuilt from New York Central baggage car #9178, the prototype housed the "Growth of the Nation" displays, among them the silver spade that broke ground for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and models of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and an experimental linear induction motor vehicle. Car #103 carries the artwork panels for the 1816-1826 and 1826-1836 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.