S-Helper Service General Note | Historical Note

S-Helper Service

General Note

Historical Note

Production Numbers

Don Thompson provided us with S-Helper Service's production numbers and approved their publication on the NASG web site. Note that these numbers include the special-runs that they produced.

Cars

• Box Car: USRA Single-sheath: 4,824 (19 road names)


• Box Car: USRA Double-sheath: 6,514 (17 road names)


• Box Car: USRA Steel Rebuilt: 22,554 (40 road names)


• Caboose: Extended-vision: 7,560 (20 road names)


• Hopper: Composite Two-bay: 3,972 (14 road names)


• Hopper: Offset Two-bay: 3,100 (12 road names)


• Hopper: Panel-side Two-bay: 6,680 (12 road names)


• Hopper: PS-2 Covered Two-bay: 21,553 (47 road names)


• Hopper: PS-2 Covered Three-bay: 7,992 (24 road names)


• Hopper: USRA Two-bay: 8,606 (22 road names)


• Hopper: USRA Rebuilt Two-bay: 3,272 (13 road names)


• Flat Car: 53': 8,416 (33 road names)


• Flat Car: 53' with Trailer (TOFC): 9,089 (20 road names)


• Flat Car: 48' Bulkhead: 6,288 (16 road names)


• Ore Car: 6,000 (9 road names; 2 undecorated)


• Refrigerator Car: 34,110 (87 road names)


• Stock Car: 14,320 (25 road names)

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Total: 174,850 individual models produced.

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Stand-alone Trailers

• 35' Vertical Ribs: 7,561 (12 road names)


• 35' Horizontal Corrugations: 1,848 (14 road names)

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Total: 9,409 individual models produced.

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Locomotives

• 2-8-0: 2,000 (9 road names)


• F3 A-unit: 2,000 (10 road names)


• F3 B-unit: 1,800 (10 road names)


• F7 A-unit: 2,000 (6 road names)


• F7 B-unit: 1,000 (6 road names)


• NW2: 690 (4 road names)


• SW1: 2,900 (14 road names)


• SW8: 600 (4 road names)


• SW9: 5,131 (23 road names)

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Total: 18,121 individual models produced.

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Planned

At the time of S-Helper Service's unexpected shut-down due to the Sanda Kan situation, they had under development:

• Fish-belly hoppers (11 road names; these were released by MTH in 2020)


• ICC Bay-window cabooses (10 road names)


• E7 locomotives (9 road names)


• SW7