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Evans Demo Evans Side Slider Boxcar

Evans Demo Evans Side Slider Boxcar

$54.95
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A rare Evans Side Slider all-door boxcar, produced as a ready-to-run HO scale model for the first time. Built for forest-products loading, the prototype featured wide side access for forklifts handling lumber, plywood, drywall, and other bulky freight. This ROKA model features highly detailed construction, metal knuckle couplers, blackened metal wheelsets, and a 5 oz model weight.

Tank Car Details

Highly detailed HO scale ready-to-run Evans Side Slider boxcars with metal knuckle couplers, blackened metal wheelsets, and 5 oz model weight. Designed after the distinctive Evans all-door cars used for lumber, plywood, drywall, and other forest-products loading. Side doors do not open.

Tank Car History

ROKA’s Evans Side Slider Boxcars are a limited-run HO scale ready-to-run release featuring rare Evans all-door lumber cars built for forest-products service. Each road number is produced in limited quantities, with 84 units ordered per road number.

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Our ROKA Promise

  • Fanatatical Research

    Months and years of archival research, field work, and prototyping to delivery never-before-seen levels of accuracy

  • Flawless Production

    Incredibly sharp paint and lettering styles that perfectly recreate each car as seen in its prime

  • Perfectly Detailed

    Details that will blow your mind. Every aspect has been minutely recreated.

  • Small Batch, Limited Runs

    Each run has fewer than 100 units pe variation. Once a variation is gone, it's gone for the foreseeable future.

Evans Side Slide: History

Evans Products Company built its “Side-Slider” all-door boxcars during the late 1970s, with production running between February 1976 and October 1977. Unlike a standard boxcar, the Side Slider was designed with broad side-door access so forklifts could load long, wide, and stacked materials such as lumber, plywood, and drywall directly through the car sides.

The result was a highly specialized car built for the forest-products market. These cars appeared across American and Canadian railroads, private shippers, and leasing fleets, carrying the markings of lumber companies, regional railroads, and industrial operators. Their unusual side-door design, limited production, and long service life make them a standout prototype for modelers of late 1970s through modern-era freight operations.

Note: “Side-Slider” was a brand name owned by Evans Products Company.

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