Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 86ft High Cube Double Plug Door Box Car - Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR) #192122 - “Ex-AA Patch 1992+” - Orange/White/Black/Gray With Black Lettering (SKU 20009-25037-01)
Available On: February 1, 2023
During the 1960s, the most radical freight car designs employed the extreme height clearances offered by Plate F car designs. In 1964, no car type articulated this extreme more than the 86-foot, purpose-built “Auto Parts” boxcars. These large boxcars became fixtures on the rails all over North American mainlines, riding hot trains to deliver components vital to the productivity of auto plants. While several car builders offered 86’ auto parts boxcars, the most prolific builder of the double plug door design was Greenville Steel Car Company of Greenville PA. More than 4,400 of these cars were acquired by most major railroads, and they were assigned to pools where multiple railroad’s cars served a specific shipper or shippers. Original utilization of these cars was for Ford, Pontiac, and Chrysler, as well as deliveries from 3rd party parts suppliers to the auto plants. Greenville’s 1964-1978 production was the longest run for this car type, with many still in service today.
Tangent Scale Models offers high-end HO models of the Greenville 86’ High Cube Double Plug Door Box Car in HO scale! This is not just a single box car model, but instead a system of 86’ High Cube Double Plug Door Box Car models.
The Tangent Greenville 86’ High Cube Double Plug Door Box Car system is a state of the art, dimensionally-accurate scale replica that was tooled to Greenville Steel Car plans and verified with field measurements. The model comes with highly accurate “true-to-life” colors and “hyper-accurate” lettering including exact stenciling, fonts, and lettering placement. The Greenville 86’ system of models offers a multitude of detail variations and phases to replicate the many different Greenville Steel Car offerings. A quick synopsis of the era and railroad-specific detail variations include:
Mississippi Delta Railroad (MSDR) “Ex-AA Patch 1992+” moves the “hot potato” story of the ex-Ann Arbor 86’ box cars into the 1990s. MSDR assumed the lease of the ex-Ann Arbor cars in 1994 from a failing Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation. The cars were patched again with new MSDR reporting marks and numbers, but still served in the Ford parts pool doing exactly what they were designed to do: carry auto parts. The Tangent MSDR model shows the little details of the 1990s, including patched out IHRC logos, CAPY data and newly-applied door inspection dates. The end crossover platforms have also been replaced to a Morton style.
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