Offers an unexpected car: No April Fool's Joke, but any HO Scale Train Lover's  Delight :

Has Produced a completely new model, which is now in stock at Tangent now:

Pullman-Standard 40ft PS-1 Combination Door Boxcars

for Three Important Roads:

Union Pacific

Northern Pacific, and

Milwaukee Road

Detailed Information:

Pullman-Standard’s PS-1 box car line evolved to feature a variety of door combinations to satisfy customer requests for 40-foot “purpose-built” box cars. In the late 1950s, the first “combination door” PS-1s were built to a new design: one plug door was flush with the car side, and the other door was a traditional sliding door. Three western railroads operated slightly different PS-1 combination door box cars:  Milwaukee Road (built 1958), Northern Pacific (built 1959/60), and Union Pacific (Rebuilt 1963/64). These railroads intended to utilize the door combination to improve loaded car miles, where consumer products or grains could be hauled west, and lumber could be hauled east. The combination door cars were mostly used for forest products, and they wandered all over North America in revenue service into the 1980s. Yes, everyone models a little MILW, NP(BN) and UP: Pacific Northwest forest products shipped everywhere!

Tangent Scale Models is pleased to introduce the Pullman-Standard PS-1 Combination Door Box Car in HO scale! This is not just a single box car model, but instead a system of 3 different carbodies and associated box car models. Tangent is pleased to introduce the industry’s first “high-detail” 40 ft combination door box car model!

More about the model in a moment – let’s start with a quick review of the prototype cars!

Typically a string of cars were likely headed west, running extra behind a set of ABBA F-units in typical NP mainline style of that era, headed for Missoula or Parkwater (Spokane) to be dispersed into lumber products services. These cars were like cadillacs when they were delivered and were prized by customers for their easy loading with the door arrangement, spec’ed with an 8-foot Youngstown sliding door, plus a 7’2” plug door located to the left of the sliding door.

These cars went literally everywhere with lumber products from the Pacific North West. The NP cars include the sharp, large 60-inch “Northern Pacific Railway” logo and includes the “Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited” lettering adjacent to the logo. The left side of the car includes the large, nested “NP” shadowed letters.  The NP cars lasted into the 1980s BN era.

The Milwaukee Road Pullman-Standard PS-1 Combination Door box cars came in Milwaukee Road's freight car red color and included the classic Milwaukee Road logo on the right side of the car. The Milwaukee combination door version of the PS-1 has a 15’2” door opening. The car was spec’ed with an 8-foot Youngstown sliding door, plus a 7’2” plug door located to the left of the sliding door, which of course is different from the NP cars delivered a year later. The MILW cars lasted into the SOO era, as well as the WC era. 

The Union Pacific cars provides an interesting slice of history for a PS-1 combination door box car. In 1963-1964, UP’s Albina Terminal shops rebuilt 500 1948-built PS-1 6-foot door cars into combination door box cars to be similar to the offerings that MILW and NP received from Pullman-Standard. This was an early example of UP combination door cars that were built and rebuilt by the railroad. The UP cars were distinctive for several reasons: UP built a large sill on this car, and also added an end door to the A end of the car (for lumber loading). Like the NP cars ordered from Pullman-Standard, the UP cars were built with a 14-foot opening. The doors were reversed from the NP configuration, where the centered sliding door was 6 feet in width, and the plug door was 8 feet in width. Our gorgeous UP oxide red model is painted in the “Ship and Travel the Automated Rail Way” scheme, complete with a large UP red, white, and blue shield. Union Pacific painted these cars with oxide red paint to designate their non-cushioned car status.

Our focus with our new release is with these three Pullman-Standard 40 ft PS-1 combination door box cars, each of which is different. No other railroads had 40ft combination door Pullman-Standard built cars. Everyone needs these three railroads represented for their “foreign road” cars, even if you don’t model MILW (SOO), NP (BN), or UP.

Now, for the models! The Tangent Scale Models PS-1 Combination Door box cars include incredible road-specific detailing for these three specific MILW, NP, and UP models. We have produced three road-specific body shells featuring accurate plug and sliding door combinations. Each car includes see-through running boards, accurate hand brake options, wire brake piping, release rods, separate stirrup steps, and fine bracket grabs and ladders. Like all Tangent models, these cars come standard with HO scale’s most accurate colors and car stenciling. These new box cars are finished with two different all new truck possibilities: our new ASF A-3 50-Ton Roller Bearing truck, or our new Barber S-2 plain bearing truck. Finally, our cars are weighted properly and are equipped with Kadee® couplers which means they operate as good as they look.

A quick synopsis of our era and railroad-specific detail variations include:
• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Pullman-Standard plans
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• 12 road numbers for each scheme
• Very fine Pullman-style ladders
• Very fine Pullman-style bracket grab irons
• Rubber air hoses
• Road-specific details for each scheme, including:
– Specific body side configurations for doors
– 2 different PS-1 end configurations
– “See through” running boards (in 2 possible combinations)
– “See through” brake steps (in 2 possible combinations)
– 2 different brake housings (Equipco or Ajax, as appropriate)
– 3 different brakewheel options (Equipco, Ajax, and Universal)
• CNC-machined 33” wheels, with blackened or nickel-plated semi-scale tread (0.88”) available separately
• Recommended age 14 years and older
• Finally, check out the TRUCKS on these cars! Two All-New precision truck options are available with this new car (these will be available for purchase separately in Summer 2021!)
• Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton ASF A-3 Ride Control Roller Bearing truck – with rotating “Timken” bearing caps! Yes, this is a truck never-before available in HO scale!
• Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing truck

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Anticipated Delivery Date: Available Now!