The Pennsy GLe class cement car is our first offering of freight equipment and it's a prototype that offers some great modeling opportunities. The 'Pennsy' constructed 250 units in this class, more correctly, they rebuilt Standard Steel Car Company built GLb class open hopper cars into GLe's beginning in December of 1931 and a hand-full of cars remained in service after 1960.

There were two basic styles of construction for this class and we will offer both; one having structural steel exterior side braces and the other utilizing 'pressed' steel side braces, the difference n appearance is striking as represented by the photos through out this brochure. The red car is a 'structural' side-stake car with a 'K' style brake system. The grey car is a 'pressed' side-stake car with an 'AB' style brake system.

As noted, we are offering two brake systems which is significant in order to have the models prototypically correct for various periods of operation. The 'K' brake system was used on freight equipment up until approximately 1943 and the 'AB' brake system from then on, our systems are completely and correctly detailed. We are offering ten different configurations, including graphics, appropriate for the entire period of service, up to and including company service at the very end of the cars useful life.

Some of the detail offered in our models are 'punched' rivets: wooden walkways, operational hatches with prototypical locking bars, full underbody detail, complete interior detail, complete piping detail, scale operating brass couplers and sprung ball-bearing equipped 2D-F8 trucks with Kohs & Company specification wheel sets. Our first piece of rolling-stock has been built to the same standards as our finest locomotives and we are offering them at a bargain price, $375 (plus shipping).