PROTOTYPE HISTORY

Since 2012, TrinityRail has built thousands of 31,000 Gallon Tank Cars with head shields to meet the growing demands of the oil industry. This Trinity tank car is easy recognizable by its unique trapezoid-shaped end shields.

Mile-long unit trains with 100+ cars crisscross the United States and Canada daily to deliver crude from the oil fields of North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana to refineries on the East, Gulf and West Coasts.

As demand for shipping crude oil by rail has declined, these cars are now carrying ethanol, gasoline, petroleum distillates, and other commodities. In addition, these cars can often be found in mixed freight trains.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Road Number Specific ScaleTrains

• New roadname
• Era: 2018 to present
• Series TCBX 286000 to 286199(?); ex-GATX 286001 to 286199; built 8/2011-12/2011
• Fully assembled
• Multiple road numbers 
• Photo-etched metal head shields for realistic thin profile
• Separately-applied printed hazmat placards
• See-through top and end photo-etched metal 
• Handbrake housing with finely detailed wheel and chain
• Precision injection-molded one-piece tank body with separate ends
• Half ladder and four (4) grab irons side ladders
• Finely detailed manway cover and protective housing
• Finely detailed tank saddles with defect card holders
• Sturdy metal anti-personnel rods
• Die-cast metal end frames 
• Separately-applied metal corner and end sill grab irons
• Factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
• Underbody outlet valve and chain detail
• Brake plumbing with separate air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve plus separately applied wireform plumbing including trainline pipe with brackets  
• Semi-scale coupler boxes
• Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale SE Type double-shelf knuckle couplers
• Highly-detailed Barber S-2-HD-9C, 110-ton trucks with rotating blue bearing caps and separate brake beam detail
• Printed reporting mark and road number on all four trucks
• 36” machined metal wheels with accurately profiled .110" wide wheel tread
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• FRA-224 yellow conspicuity striping
• Unnumbered cars available to create longer unit trains 
• Decal sheet with number jumble available separately for unnumbered cars 
• Weighted to Industry standards
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”

Order Due Date: March 28, 2022

Anticipated Delivery Date: October 2022