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Tangent - HO Scale - PS-2CD 4740 Covered Hopper - Milwaukee Road (MILW) - Single Car - "Original Yellow" w/Black Lettering 12 diff road numbers (SKU 20009-10014-run3)

Available On: August 1, 2014

 

The “2” in PS-2CD - designates the car is a covered hopper. A “1” was Pullman's designation for boxcars. The “CD” refers to “Center Discharge”, which is the type of discharge gates underneath the car. Hoppers that empty underneath the center of the car are center discharge, and hoppers that empty to the sides are referred to as “side discharge,” or SD. 4740 refers to the cubic foot capacity of the car, or how many cubic feet of bulk product can be loaded into the carbody.

Just prior to PS-2CD 4740 production, Pullman produced a series of covered hoppers during the mid-1960s that were of slightly lower cubic capacity. Their design was different as well, featuring a “low-side” design where the car's sides covered most of the outlet bays. Pullman's engineers then released the PS-2CD 4740 hopper in 1966, which was a new, “high-hip” design that was more user-friendly to personnel who were charged with unloading the hopper. The bays were more accessible with this design, and the cars unloaded at a faster rate and more reliably due to the steeper angles of the bays.

The Pullman-Standard PS-2CD 4740 cubic foot covered hopper was produced between 1966 and 1972. The earliest PS-2CD 4740 Hoppers were delivered from Pullman-Standard's Butler, PA manufacturing plant in March and April of 1966, and featured high brakewheels. P-S produced no 4740s for a full year, and resumed production in April 1967. This new production featured cars with low brakewheels, thanks to a federal rule change prohibiting high brakewheels on new cars. From 1967 to 1972, Pullman built more than 10,000 copies of the PS-2CD 4740, with only minor detail and appliance changes along the way. The Tangent Scale Models replica will cover virtually all production changes of the PS-2CD 4740 through this 1967 to 1972 period, including the Evans-built clones.

 

 

MILW

ITEM # -  ROAD #

10014-19   -   100405

10014-20   -   100416

10014-21   -   100428

10014-22   -  100453

10014-23  -    100487

10014-24   -    100495

 









$42.95 US