Now Available! ExactRail's All New HO Scale: Gunderson 6269 Boxcar in 5 Paint Schemes!
In 1994, Gunderson introduced a 6269 cubic capacity boxcar. These cars were constructed with the paper industry in mind, where large rolls of paper travel best in well conditioned, well sealed cars. In this year, Gunderson delivered 500 cars to the BN, BAR and HS. By 2000, the combined delivery to other roads totaled 2050 cars. Today, many of these cars have passed into second-hand ownership.
ExactRail’s Gunderson 6269 boxcar features accurate fonts and colors. It is adorned with stand-off detail, including separate door tracks, door bars, etched stainless steel cross-over walks, and wire formed grab irons. Furthermore, the ExactRail’s model features meticulously crafted steel nailable flooring. The Gunderson 6269 boxcar will be available in 5 paint schemes. These are:
Burlington Northern (BN):
The Burlington Northern was one of the original owners of the 6269. Of the 500 cars manufactured in 1994, BN purchased 300. BN took delivery of these car in its modern ‘BN over-two-lines’ paint scheme--which ExactRail has expertly recreated.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF):
The original 1994 delivery of Gunderson 6269 boxcars remained in BN ownership through the 1996 merger. These cars were repainted in a spartan paint scheme indicative of modern railroads.
International Bridge and Terminal (IBT):
International Bridge and Terminal purchased 200 cars from Gunderson in 1998. These cars were painted in IBT’s recognizable “Pine Tree” logo. This logo actually has two colors, white outline on a green background--and the color of the green background differs slightly from the green carbody.
Illinois Central (IC):
In 1996, Illinois Central purchased 200 Gunderson 6269 boxcars. These were delivered in a very industrial looking light gray paint scheme and IC’s “Death Star” logo.
Wisconsin Central (WC):
Wisconsin Central took delivery of 50 cars in the 21500-21549 equipment series. (They received an additional 100 cars from Trenton Works in 1997.) These cars were painted in WC classy maroon paint scheme with shield moniker which has been expertly matched by ExactRail’s artists.
ExactRail’s Gunderson 6269 boxcar features:
- Precision micro-tooled!
- Extraordinarily accurate artwork!
- Designed, engineered and tooled in the United States!
- ExactRail's exclusive 100-ton ASF Ride Control trucks
- Kadee® #58 couplers
- Finely crafted steel-nailable floor
- Wire grab irons
- ExactRail's separately applied door tracks and door bars!
- Narrow-style draft box, featuring: shank wedges, striker casting and full nut and bolt detail
- CNC-machined 36" metal wheel sets
- Razor sharp printing!
10 Responses
Bill
Would love to see these cars offered in some of the modern schemes familiar to New England. The paper mills here receive a lot of these cars.
Vito Larucci
Please consider modern patch/fade-out paint plus second hand owners with con striping
Roger Thomas
I’ll probably get the BNSF and WSOR, then put reflective stripes on the BNSF and graffiti on both. Will look for a second run with lettering for second-hand purchasers.
Shannon Kolker
Can’t wait to get these!
David Olsen
While it’s great to see another new model from ExactRail, it would have been nice to see you offer the 10’ door version of this prototype, which is very common and includes a big road name, CSXT. The 10’ door version has never been produced in HO, while this 12’ door car was previously done by another manufacturer. I hope you’ll consider producing the 10’ door model in the future.
James
Pretty drab looking ! The Gestapo would like these.
Don Shriner
Great to see these Boxcars now avaliable in HO Scale!Been waiting for along time.Hope theirs plenty of numbers for IBT and WC.Are these Evolution or Platnium series?
Bob Menzies
Hope they come in multiple numbers for the WC! A must needed car for us WC modelers! Bob Menzies WC2SCALE.org
Rob
Price $$$$
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Bryan Larocque
May 04, 2018
Just recivied my WC hi-cube! Wow! ? More order to come!