Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 6,000 CuFt 60ft Double Plug Door Box Car - Erie Lackawanna (EL) #67826 - “Delivery Red 1966” - Red/White/Gray with White/Yellow Lettering (SKU 20009-33012-02)
Available On: March 1, 2024
This is the latest Greenville Auto Parts box car product in Tangent Scale Models line of “family-appearance” cars that introduce market-leading design and tooling practices, geared toward consumers who desire the most accurate models with a “family-appearance” between prototypes manufactured by the same builder.
The 1960s freight car building boom was fueled by demand for specialty car types. A key type were 60’ box cars designed for dense auto parts such as engines, bumpers, axles, and glass. Greenville Steel Car was a box car innovator, first introducing these 60’ auto parts cars in 1963. Greenville’s box cars had a distinctive “fishbelly” sill design, and centered Youngstown Steel Door Company double plug doors with a 16-foot door opening. But here are where the similarities end. Greenville produced these box cars with two significant body variations:
Fourteen railroads initially bought these cars, with some of them receiving merger-related repaints and some of them changing hands. Most of these workhorses remained in service into the 2000s.
The Tangent Scale Models Greenville 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door box car is a dimensionally-accurate replica of the real car, designed from actual blueprints. Tangent Scale Models Greenville 60’ system includes multiple bodies and design details to handle two different truck centers, corresponding prototypical sill and plug door changes, and accurate roofwalk and end appliance configurations appropriate for the era of the model. Additionally, Tangent Scale Models include a beautifully-rendered “Diagonal-Panel” roof, complete with accurate Stanray ends and the Greenville “rivet rows” on the sides of the model. Underneath, the car includes prototypical brake piping, appliances, and Tangent Scale Models “near-scale” draft gear box including side “key” detail. These cars are ready to roll with three possible Tangent-accurate truck and wheel options. Tangent Scale Models ready-to-operate replica is finished with coupler lift bars accompanying Kadee scale couplers, sufficient hidden weights, and CNC-machined wheels to ensure the model operates as good as it looks.
Features for Tangent Scale Models Greenville Steel Car Company 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door Box Car replicas include:
– Erie Lackawanna EL “Delivery Red 3-1966” replicates the as-delivered EL paint scheme for a large order of 47 cars. The prototype cars were delivered in very-late March and early April of 1966, right in the middle of the rules change concerning prototype running board application. These EL cars were the first Greenville 60’ group to be built with low ladders and no running boards. If you look closely at the model, you can spot the rivets around the areas of the car side and ends where high ladders and brake gear would have been mounted. Greenville Steel Car had already drilled the holes for the “high” equipment, and simply filled the holes with rivets to finish the order. Yes, these cars were built new with low ladders. Tangent Scale Modelshave duplicated this interesting look on the models, with the correct wider 46’3” truck centers, low side ladders, non-symmetrical low end ladders and low Ajax brake gear. The underframe is equipped with an accurate Keystone Center-Of-Car Cushioning underframe and truck-mounted brake hardware details. The model has Tangent’s All-New 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with accurate journal box lids for the EL. The graphics on the model are carefully executed, with the Erie Lackawanna’s logo, Roman-style data and Greenville Steel Car-style small data all faithfully reproduced. This group of cars has a return route to the NYC and Ford’s Monroe, Michigan Stampings plant. Available in 8 numbers, with SKUs -01 through -04 NEW in 3-66 and SKUs -05 through -08 NEW in 4-66.
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