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Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I am looking for information on what I believe to be called the vertipak Rail car I need either pictures of it or an HO scale Model of it. only one company I have talked to so far has made it but that was is 1995 and they made only 250 of them out of brass and they retailed for aroung 350.00 since I am a modeler on a budget I want to get Picture of it and make one of my own if anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

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Is this the freight car General Motors used to ship Vegas in ?

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Polizi,

Is the “Vertipak” the auto carrier that has the drop-down car sides, that a vehicle drives up on, gets strapped down, then the whole side of the car folds up and closes, so the vehicles are actually transported in a vertical position???

Whew!!! Longest sentence I’ve ever written!

Edit: Look at this site address, copy and paste, then wait as it’s an archived page and it will redirect to the photo…

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?december02/12-03-02/SP_VERTAPAK.jpg

And another… Frisco… Nice…

http://abpr2.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?december02/12-03-02/SLSF_VERTAPAK.jpg

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I believe MR or RMC had plans for those cars back in the 60’s or early 70’s.

I saw numerous Vertapack cars converted to storage sheds in various SP/SSW yards.

Dave H.

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thanks guys for your reply you were correct these were used to transport the Chevy Vega’s they were used a lot back then at th GM Lordstown plant where they made the vega. the photos are great now i only need to find the plans so my devilish plan to build this unique car will be complete.[}:)]

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Sounds like you’re almot ready to conquer the world!!![:-,]

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Hey!!! I was gonna do that!!![:D][:D][:D][;)][:p][(-D][(-D][swg][swg][swg]

The world would be engulfed by a big yellow monster[}:)][;)]

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i can someone give me the wire code for a bachmann 2 10 4 its a santa fe 667
and the wires for the motor fell off allso can this be upgraded with a better motor
[banghead]