Life-Like Stockcar ~ THE BEE LINE ~ MIDWEST RAILROAD ~ Rd# MW 9751304 - IOB

Description: We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada,Great item for your Model Railroad Layout - note the black door and yellow doors Buy multiple pieces and use combined shipping to save $$ To see all our listings visit: Ika's Train Store On May 11, 1848, as the Midwest railroad era dawned, Connersville-based former Indiana Congressman and Senator Oliver Smith took to the podium in Indianapolis: “The time has now come when central Indiana has to decide whether the immense travel, emigration, and business of the west should pass round or go through central Indiana…and not force them round by either Cincinnati on the east, or Chicago on the north.”Smith, who had also sponsored a bill to extend the National Road through Indiana during his Congressional term in 1828, foresaw the potential economic synergies in linking Midwest railroads from the heartland with East Coast markets. Now, its citizens would need to make the financial investment to make it happen. And the mechanism to ignite this explosive rush was not a rutted path or canal, but a new form of transportation in the Midwest: a railroad. It would be among Indiana’s first.By July, Smith had tallied the necessary stock purchase commitments or “subscriptions” to incorporate the railroad destined to link Indianapolis to Cleveland on one end, and to St. Louis on the other. In legal terms, it was called Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad [I&B], extending 83 miles northeast from Indianapolis to an undefined location in the wilderness along the Ohio state line.Soon, it connected with two others Ohio railroads to reach Cleveland – one with a confusingly similar name: Bellefontaine & Indiana Railroad [B&I]. The other was already the regional powerhouse that soon financed, controlled and finally swallowed the other two: Cleveland Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad [CC&C]. But to the traveling public the complete or partial string of railroads linking these economic centers became known as the Bee Line – like a bumblebee’s nearly straight-line path between these two cities. The Bee Line Railroad is a short-line railroad operated by the Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad, serving agricultural communities in northwestern Warren County and southwestern Benton County in Indiana, USA. It joins the Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad about two miles east of Ambia in Benton County, from which point it heads south into Warren, passes through the town of Tab, and terminates just south of Stewart. Year of Manufacture that is painted on the side of the freight car is a representative number of the actual freight car; not a date of the train model being made. That being said, the information on the side of the car was the actual freight capacity etc of the real freight car. Build date and the "new" dates were actually maintenance dates that the freight yard maintenance crews would stencil onto the freight cars. Data displayed near the reporting marks refers to the weight of a freight car and its contents. The black rectangular area on freight cars is known as the consolidated stencil. It's here that maintenance information on the air-brake system and journal bearings, and the built-date, must be displayed. This area has been simplified and reduced in size in recent years, and many cars' stencils are in the older format. Accompanying the light weight marking "LT WT" is a date indicating when the railroad or owner last verified the car's weight. The letters for this mark are not always reporting marks; sometimes a location code is used. NEW and a date indicates that the weight shown is the car's as-built weight, and that it hasn't been field-checked since. The "Consolidated Stencil" was imposed by the F.R.A. {Federal Railroad Administration founded in 1966} as a railroad regulation in 1974, so all rolling freight was required to have a whole list of information stenciled onto the cars; some railroads had been doing this in an informal manner prior to 1974.ABD is the type of brake equipment found on the car. The ABDW brake valve is a modification of the ABD, which is descended from the AB of 1933.LUB (lubricated, for roller bearings) or RPKD (repacked, for plain bearings) heads the journal-bearing maintenance column. NO means that the car has NFL bearings, which require no field lubrication. If the journals need to be serviced, the date and location of the work, as well as the interval until the next servicing, are shown.A designation of BLT 7-67 would mean the car was built in July 1967. When a car is rebuilt, REBLT and the month and year are shown.** Railroad EquipmentNote #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4 business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it.If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund.For our International customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.

Price: 9.04 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-08-19T13:27:02.000Z

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