Available Items

20-95597

O Scale Premier Gondola Car w/Junk Load
  • Baltimore & Ohio

20-95598

O Scale Premier Gondola Car w/Junk Load
  • Southern Pacific

20-95599

O Scale Premier Gondola Car w/Junk Load
  • Great Northern

20-95600

O Scale Premier Gondola Car w/Junk Load
  • Maine Central

2022 Premier O Scale Gondola with Junk Load Cars Announced

June 7, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing the Premier O Scale Gondola with Junk Load Cars in four select liveries in 2022. Each of these unique schemes will be available in limited production quantities and will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in February 2023.

Check out each of the schemes in the list on the left.

CUSTOM RUN GONDOLA CAR w/JUNK LOAD OFFERINGS

In addition to the M.T.H. releases, you can find all the 2022 Custom Run models of the Premier Gondola Car w/Junk Load that M.T.H. is producing for M.T.H. Authorized Retailers by going HERE.

PROTOTYPE HISTORY

On its customer Web site, the Union Pacific Railroad characterizes a gondola as an “extremely sturdy open design” for carrying “rugged unfinished commodities”; its “large flat interior design with side walls” is described as “more flexible than a flat car.” These qualities make the modern gondola particularly popular with the steel industry, for transportation of loose materials like scrap metal, waste, coke, and slag as well as finished products like iron or steel plate, pipe, structural steel, and rails for railroad track. Our car replicates a 52’ mill gondola, so-called for its popularity with steel mills, and carries a removable load of scrap metal that might be recycled and used to stamp parts for autos, appliances, and a variety of other products.

Other commodities commonly shipped in gondolas include mineral ores, granite slabs, gravel, logs, lumber, railroad ties, and even prefabricated railroad track, also known as “panel track.”

The name for these cars actually predates railroads. In the early 1800s, utilitarian flat-bottomed boats with low sides, used to transport coal down the Potomac River to the Washington D.C. area, were called gondolas as a spoof on the much fancier Venetian gondolas. Similarly shaped coal-carrying cars on early railroads earned the same moniker. As more specialized cars were invented for coal service, the gondola evolved into the general-purpose car it is today.

Product Features

  • Intricately Detailed Durable ABS Body
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • O Scale Kadee® Compatible Coupler Mounting Pads
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Schemes
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • 1:48 Scale Dimensions
  • Removeable Junk Load
  • Unit Measures: 14 5/8 x 2 5/8 x 3 15/16”
  • Operates On O-31 Curves