The mid-1970s brought about an urgent need for new coal hoppers based upon a combination of robust utility and export demand as well as an aging coal fleet composed of mostly smaller-capacity, 50 and 70-ton coal hoppers. Additionally, the opening of new low-sulfur coal mines in the Powder River Basin (PRB) region of Wyoming and Montana introduced a new supply of coal to the market, driving new coal hopper orders.

 

Features for these coal hopper replicas include:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Pullman-Standard plans and verified with field measurements

• Highly correct “true to life” colors

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

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

• Multiple road numbers for each scheme

• Two different coal loads (one load is included with each model)

• Separately-applied “car shaker” parts

• “See-through” brake platform

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

• Rubber air hoses including “wrong side” mounting for rotary ends

• Five dimensionally-correct coal hopper body variations with appropriate side panel arrangements (trapezoidal and flat), as well as offset and non-offset truck center arrangements

• Six different assembly builds within our system

• Road-specific details for each scheme, including different brake appliances and 2 different styles of unloading door mechanisms

• Beautiful details – wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded on” plastic grab irons here!

• Accurate interior bracing parts

• Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname-specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part

• CNC-machined 36” wheels

• Replacement 36” semi-scale wheels for our “rotating bearing cap” trucks are available separately from Tangent in either blackened or nickel-silver finish

• Genuine Kadee scale “scale-head” couplers

• Recommended age 14 years and older

 

 

• Product: Pullman Standard 4000 HT Triple Coal Hopper

• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1

• Truck: Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname-specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part

• Wheels: CNC-Machined 36″ Wheels

 

 

Burlington Northern (BN) Ph 3 Black Delivery 1976+ PS4000 is a different “Phase 3” carbody version of the classic BN paint scheme as applied by Pullman-Standard, compared to our previous “Phase 1” release.  The classic Burlington Northern billboard scheme was applied with white stencil lettering on a black car, with white rectangles on the end and slope sheets to designate the rotary end.  Some of the car fleet was repainted in the 1980s with full white ends and we will offer those down the road, but these samples from BN’s massive fleet of almost 1,200 cars are the statistically relevant scheme for BN’s largest coal hopper fleet.  These Phase 3 models have the distinctive Pullman “trapezoid” indentations on the side panels, and the “short B end, short A end” body configuration.  We offer this scheme in 24 road numbers so you can model a unit train!  This 1976+ scheme lasted into the BNSF era so it is relevant for all modelers.

 

 

 

 

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