Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 6,000 CuFt 60ft Double Plug Door Box Car - Conrail (CR) #219055 - “932B Repaint 1976+ Large Logo” - Brown with White Lettering (SKU 20009-33011-03)
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:
– Conrail CR “932B Repaint 1976+ Large Logo” transports us back to the early days of Conrail. This group of cars models former NYC Lot 932B cars that were repainted by the CR’s Hollidaysburg Car Shops. These prototype cars feature the 1963-era body – so that means inset 41’ 3” truck centers and a shorter sill. But it is 1976, so the running boards are gone and the brake appliance and ladders have been lowered. Tangent Scale Models have carefully duplicated all these features on the model. If you look closely, you will see the “torched off” running board bracket remnants on the roof and the former bolt/strap remnants of the ladders on the sides and ends. The sides of the body have the CR-specific bolster area reinforcements, too! Yes, Tangent Scale Models tool these specific body and roof versions to get it right. Other features on the model include accurate “cut-down” low ladders, a Universal power brake/brake wheel, end crossover grab irons and Apex crossover end walkways. The double-plug doors have “Auxiliary Top Crank” arms to match the era. Underneath, you can identify that beautiful Keystone Center-Of-Car Cushioning underframe with the centered return unit and offset return spring. The underside crossbearer connectors are taller and hang lower on this version of the underframe, a distinctive look that you can easily see from the side of the car. And you just knew this was coming: The model has Tangent’s All-New 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with “removed” journal box lids. You can actually see the rebuilt Timken bearing caps in there– just like the prototype! These are cool examples of 1970s repaints.
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