HO 40' Grain Loading Box Car SOO #48361 (RND-1861)

An HO-scale 40-foot grain-loading box car modeled after a Soo Line prototype, offered in the Legendary Liveries scheme. This detailed model is designed for HO-layout operation and display, letting you recreate mid-20th-century grain-hauling scenes with a classic box-car profile.

Key features include an injection-molded body painted and printed for realism, a separately-applied brake wheel, machined metal wheels with RP-25 contours, weighted balance for smooth running, and body-mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers. The model has a minimum radius of 15 inches, making it compatible with most hobby layouts. Legendary Liveries—an exclusive Athearn program—offers historically popular paint schemes, including Soo Line variants, for protofreelance rosters or era-specific dioramas. Grain box cars like this carried grain from the early 1900s through the 1980s, before covered hoppers became standard.