Micro Trains ~ Z Scale ~ 40′ Stock Car ~ Northern Pacific #81778 ~ 52000232

Micro Trains ~ Z Scale ~ 40′ Northern Pacific – Rd#81778 ~ 52000232

These 40’ despatch stock cars are brown with white lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. This 81750 – 81999 series stock car was heavily used across the Midwest and Northern states in the early part of the 20th century. As livestock demand continued into the 1960s, NP eventually modernized many of their old wood stock cars allowing them to serve into the 1970s.