Dear HO Scale Customers;

Besides the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Shops HO Scale X58 Class Box Cars, Tangent Scale Models are also very pleased to introduce their All-New 50’ Stanray Diagonal Panel Overhanging Roof System, with roof walkway/bracket options! Each roof is assembled, unpainted, with roof walkway or bracket options installed. These roofs are the new standard for all of your projects – whether you are building something new or updating other brands!

 

TSM-1152 – 50’ Stanray Diagonal Panel Overhanging Roof with Apex Roofwalk (yes, includes a beautiful, straight, see-through Apex roofwalk!)

 

TSM-1153 – 50’ Stanray Diagonal Panel Overhanging Roof w/ Morton Roofwalk (yes, includes a beautiful, straight, see-through Morton Uni-Wing Flange roofwalk!)

 

TSM-1156 – 50’ Stanray Diagonal Panel Overhanging Roof w/ Full Roof Brackets (full walkway brackets still visible!)

 

TSM-1157 – 50’ Stanray Diagonal Panel Overhanging Roof (Post-1966 roof that never had a roofwalk!)

 

PRR Shops X58 Class Box Cars

 

Lehigh Valley (LV) “Delivery 12-1965 X58B” PRR Shops X58 Plug Door Boxcar

• Product: PRR Shops X58 Class Box Car
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: 70-Ton ASF “Ride Control” Roller Bearing
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1965-1985

 

LV “Original 12-1965 X58B” replicates the Lehigh Valley’s second group of X58 cars (and not yet offered by Tangent, until today!) from the PRR Samuel Rea Shops. These 60 cars were built in early December 1965, classed as X58B and wore the attractive black and white Lehigh Valley paint scheme. The LV scheme is a good example of “classy” as you notice the side grab irons (“ladders”) are painted black against the white sides along with the red LV flag painted across the ten-foot plug door. The models are sharp, equipped with accurate Keystone cushion underframes and Apex-style roof walkways. Tangent Scale Models are releasing twelve (yes, 12!) individual car numbers, with each individual car number researched to include accurate return route lettering as used by the Lehigh Valley. Modelers take careful notice that many of these cars return home to non-LV roads!

• SKUs -01 through -04 are lettered return to Reading Company West Trenton, New Jersey including that distinctive T-diamond mark.
• SKU -05 is lettered return to C&O Midland, Michigan.
• SKUs -06 through -07 are lettered return to LV RR Niagara Falls, New York.
• SKUs -08 and -12 are lettered return to GTW RR, Otterburn, Michigan, with the distinctive “O” mark.
• SKUs -09 through -11 are lettered return to LV RR Oak Island, New Jersey.

These cars will be hot.

 

Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) “Delivery 12-1965 X58B SL” PRR Shops X58 Plug Door Boxcar

• Product: PRR Shops X58 Class Box Car
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: 70-Ton ASF Ride Control Roller Bearing
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1965-1985

 

PRR “Original 12-1965 X58B SL” wears the attractive “PRR freight car red” scheme featuring yellow “Cushioned Car” stencils, plus a sharp PRR white keystone. This prototype group of cars was equipped with Transco’s Stage Loading belt rail system and feature the distinctive large yellow “SL” on the sides of the cars. Like PRR paint practices, this car has an unpainted galvanized roof and running board, except for the ends that have the characteristic paint spray line as seen in overhead photos of these cars when fresh. And don’t forget to check out that all-new Stanray 50’ roof with Apex running board! This new run of PRR cars is a new paint scheme variation Tangent Scale Models have not yet offered, and has a Keystone underframe and represents production from December of 1965.

 

Penn Central (PC) “X58A Repaint 1972+ “PRR Shops X58 Plug Door Boxcar

• Product: PRR Shops X58 Class Box Car
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: 70-Ton ASF Ride Control Roller Bearing
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1972-1995

 

PC “X58A Repaint 1972+” replicates the full PC green repaints from the era.  In 1972, Penn Central was fully repainting box cars, including lowering the brake wheel during roof modifications. These models feature a roof with the running board removed and the roof walkway brackets remain in the interior positions. The Penn Central lettering is stacked vertically on the left and the right side of the car features the “small” PC logo that fits between the exterior posts of the box car. 1972-appropriate data includes ACI label, early single panel lube plate and PC accurate paint stencil code. The lettering also features an accurate return route box to the PC RR in Buffalo, NY (likely in palletized auto parts service) This group of X58A models feature Keystone Center-Of-Car-Cushion underframes. This is a sharp scheme.

 

 

Between 1964 and 1966, the Pennsylvania Railroad built a large fleet of new multiple-purpose boxcars at their Samuel Rea Shops in Hollidaysburg, PA. Constructed as class “X58,” PRR rapidly produced 2,565 cars, plus another 100 for Lehigh Valley. PRR outfitted the interiors of some cars with “loader” appliances and/or insulation which resulted in PRR designating 4 sub-classes: X58, X58A, X58B, and X58C. Being highly-useful boxcars, X58 boxcars were rampant nationwide roamers during their service life.

 

Many X58s lasted beyond the Conrail era. Most cars were retired in the mid-2000s.

Tangent offers distinctive phase and era variations with their PRR X58 replicas, including high or low ladders, high or low brake appliances, Keystone or Hydra-cushion underframes and all-new 50’ Stanray diagonal panel roof system with prototype options. Tangent Scale Models PRR X58 includes their “near-scale” extended-length draft sill with beautifully rendered side “key” detail and gorgeous “trombone-style” coupler lift bars, plus accurate ASF 70-ton roller bearing trucks as utilized by PRR. Finally, Tangent Scale Models scale replicas operate as well as they look, equipped with free-rolling CNC-machined wheels and Kadee scale couplers, meaning their models are truly ready-to-run.

 

Tangent Scale Models studied the prototype to accurately reproduce it with the following features:

– Dimensionally-correct exterior post box car with trademark 1960s design features, produced from actual PRR blueprints and from photos and measurements taken from a real X58 at the Danbury Rail Museum in Danbury CT

– Different roof, brake appliance, side/end ladder, and center door arm variations correct for the era / paint scheme of each paint scheme

– Two different underframe variations: hydra-cushion and keystone

– All-New Stanray 50’ Diagonal Panel Roof System design, tooling and options.

– Separate door rods and door roller detail

– “See-through” running board and crossover platform

– Full “lacy” AB brake detail and train air line

– Highly correct “true to life” colors

– “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement

– Durable wire grab irons and “trombone-style” coupler lift bars

– Separate air hoses

– “Near-scale” extended draft gear box with beautifully rendered side “key” detail

– Kadee “scale-head” couplers

– CNC-machined 33” wheels in ASF 70-ton “Ride Control” roller bearing trucks, matching PRR practice

– Replacement 33” semi-scale wheels are available separately from Tangent

– Recommended age 14 years and older

 

 

Order Due Date: Available Now

Anticipated Delivery Date: In Stock Now

 

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