Available Items

30-71129

O Gauge RailKing Rounded Roof Box Car
  • Baltimore & Ohio

30-71130

O Gauge RailKing Rounded Roof Box Car
  • Lehigh Valley

30-71131

O Gauge RailKing Rounded Roof Box Car
  • U.S. Army

30-71132

O Gauge RailKing Rounded Roof Box Car
  • Southern Pacific

2022 RailKing O Gauge Rounded Roof Box Cars Announced

August 16, 2022 - M.T.H. Electric Trains will be releasing a series of 2022 RailKing O Gauge Rounded Roof Box Cars in four unique paint schemes beginning this Winter. Each of these unique schemes will be available in limited production quantities and will begin shipping to M.T.H. Authorized Retailers in January 2023.

 

The 40’ steel box car so familiar to model railroaders was a product of the 1930s. Wood box cars, which were built into the World War I era, and early steel cars were largely non-standardized, with details varying from railroad to railroad. The move toward standardization began with American Railway Association (ARA) designs of 1923 and 1932. It culminated in the 1937 AAR boxcar, which was adopted by railroads from coast to coast and built in the tens of thousands. (The AAR (American Association of Railroads) was and still is the successor to the ARA.)

While the original paint schemes were usually drab variations on standard box car red, new schemes in the 1950s and later brought color back to the American freight train. Our models replicate many of the most fondly remembered paint schemes seen on these cars.

High quality, traditionally sized RailKing Freight Cars provide detailed bodies and colorful paint schemes for the O Gauge railroader. MTH makes an enormous variety of RailKing Freight Cars, including many different car types and roadnames. No matter what era or part of the country you are modeling, RailKing is sure to have something for you.

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

 

CUSTOM RUN ROUNDED ROOF BOX CAR OFFERINGS

In addition to the M.T.H. releases, you can find all the 2022 Custom Run models of the RailKing Rounded Roof Box Car that M.T.H. is producing for M.T.H. Authorized Retailers by going HERE.

Product Features

  • Intricately Detailed, Durable ABS Body
  • Colorful, Attractive Paint Scheme
  • Stamped Metal Floors
  • Metal Wheels and Axles
  • Die-Cast 4-Wheel Trucks
  • Fast-Angle Wheel Sets
  • Needle-Point Axles
  • (2) Operating Die-Cast Metal Couplers
  • Detailed Brake Wheel
  • Sliding Car Doors
  • Near-Scale Proportions
  • Unit Measures: 11 5/8” x 2 1/2” x 3 7/16”
  • Operates On O-27 Curves