Dear HO Scale Customers;

 

Tangent Scale Models is pleased to introduce the Pullman-Standard PS-1 9′ Door Box Car in HO scale! This is not just a single box car model, but instead a system of 3 different brand new carbodies to cover the 9′ door PS-1s as built by Pullman-Standard from 1950 through 1962. Tangent is pleased to introduce the industry’s first “high-detail” 40’ 9′ door box car model!

 

Pullman-Standard’s PS-1 box car line evolved to feature a variety of different door combinations in order to satisfy customer requests for “purpose-built” box cars. Across the transition and early diesel eras, between 1951 and 1962, Pullman-Standard built 9-foot door, 40-foot long PS-1s for several railroads. Each railroad specified different doors and other appliances, and as production progressed the exterior sill and end arrangements changed. Railroads purchased the 9-foot door cars for various services, including forest products, machinery, appliances, paper, and merchandise, where the large 9-foot door opening made loading with forklifts significantly easier. These cars wandered all over the North American rail network into the early 1990s.

 

Here is an example of the earliest built 9′ door Pullman-Standard boxcars: the Southern Railway ordered more than 2,000 of these 9’ door cars during the transition era! These cars have distinctive “early” side sill configurations that have a pronounced deep side sill support underneath the door area only, ending before the trucks. These models have the early version of the Superior 9’ door, and Miner handbrake housings and wheels like the prototype did. These cars have the “classic” transition-era red carbody with red trucks. Stenciling includes “The Southern Serves the South” logo on the right side of the car, a Pullman Bessemer plant logo, and other Southern lettering technicalities. The roof is unpainted (galvanized) but includes the typical Pullman overspray onto the top of it from the sides and at the ends.

 

Chicago and North Western (C&NW) bought these 9′ door PS-1s in 1956 and they were delivered in the classic C&NW “brown” scheme with black ends. This beautiful car includes the sharp, large C&NW logo in black and white on the upper right carbody side. The left side of the car includes the CNW reporting marks with lines above and below them as found on these Pullman-Standard painted cars. Unlike the Southern cars above, these boxcars were built at Pullman-Standard’s Michigan City, IN plant and of course our car covers that correctly with the stenciling next to the door. These cars include the second version of the Superior 9’ door, with a different horizontal support pattern than the Southern car noted above. These cars have a black car cement roof, but the roof includes the typical Pullman carbody color overspray onto the top of it from the sides. C&NW stenciled “Safety First” with yellow stenciling on the carbody side corners!

 

In 1959, Green Bay and Western (GB&W) bought these 9′ door PS-1 cars. GB&W’s standard yellow scheme looks great on these; the right side of the car includes the large “Green Bay and Western” letters and the left side includes the distinctive “Green Bay Route” logo with red background. These cars are assigned cars, as identified with the stenciling “Assigned for paper loading at Biron, Wisconsin” and a “When empty return to Green Bay and Western R.R.” notation, typical for assigned cars of the period. These cars have a black car cement roof, but the roof includes the typical Pullman yellow overspray onto the top of it from the sides. GB&W requested an accurate 9’ Pullman-Standard door, which is different from the earlier car door versions.

 

Finally, Milwaukee Road had 650 of these cars. Delivered in Milwaukee Road’s standard box car red color, the 9’ door PS-1 was a large example fleet car utilized for many different services, similar to the “ribside” fleet but more useful in the 1960s and onward due to the larger door arrangement. This portion of the Milwaukee Road car order had Camel/Youngstown 9’ sliding doors on them, which we represent beautifully with our models. These cars have Ajax handbrakes and wheels on them. The Milwaukee Road PS-1 9’ door cars include the large, classic “Milwaukee Road” stenciled herald in white on the left side of the car, with the Milwaukee Road herald located on the right side of the car. The roof was left unpainted (galvanized) but includes red overspray, just like the prototype did. Here they are at the Pullman-Standard plant in Michigan City IN.

These cars went literally everywhere with forest products, machinery, appliances, paper, and merchandise.

 

Now, for the models! The Tangent Scale Models PS-1 9-foot door boxcar will stand out on your layout just like the real cars did. Our models include incredible road-specific detailing, and we have produced three road-specific body shells. Each model includes see-through running boards, accurate door options, multiple hand brake options, wire brake piping, release rods, metal underbody-mount 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 models are finished with correct road-specific plain or roller bearing 50-ton trucks, representing a total of four all-new truck designs for our 40’ PS-1 system car replicas. Finally, our cars are weighted properly and are equipped with Kadee couplers which means they operate as good as they look.

Our schemes selected mirror the prototype photos shown above. Our first image at the top of this page shows off the “group of 4” schemes for our first run.

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

• 6-12 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

– 3 different PS-1 end configurations

– “See through” running boards (in 2 possible combinations)

– “See through” brake steps (in 2 possible combinations)

– 5 different brake housings (Equipco, Ajax, Klasing, Miner, or Universal as appropriate)

– 5 different brakewheel options (Equipco, Ajax, Klasing, Miner, or Universal)

• CNC-machined 33” wheels, with blackened or nickel-plated semi-scale tread (0.88”) available separately

• Recommended age 14 years and older

 

Order Due Date: June 30, 2021

Anticipated Delivery Date: July 2021

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