Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 6,000 CuFt 60ft Double Plug Door Box Car - Milwaukee Road (MILW) #114182 - “Red Repaint 1973+” - Brown with White Lettering & Logo (SKU 20009-33014-03)
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:
– Milwaukee Road MILW “Red Repaint 1973+” gives us examples of Greenville 60’ Double Plug-Door cars on their second life. In January 1973, United State Railway Equipment, Co in Washington, Indiana refurbished a group of ex-GBW cars for the Milwaukee Road. These cars were originally built in 1963, so they feature the earlier 41’ 3” narrow-truck centers with shorter sills. This Tangent model recreates these features exactly. The models also feature the lowered brake appliances and ladders on the A-End only, correct for this version. If you look closely, you will see the “torched off” running board bracket remnants, “L” grab iron on the roof and the former bolt/strap remnants of the ladders on the A-End. The B-End ladders and brake wheel remain in the high position. Yes, Tangent Scale Models tool these specific body and roof versions to get it right. Underneath, you can identify that beautiful Keystone Center-Of-Car Cushioning underframe with the centered return unit and offset return spring. The 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. This model is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps and truck-mounted brake cylinders, just like the Milwaukee Road prototypes. Lettering and artwork aficionados will appreciate the execution of Milwaukee lettering with a distinctive USRE flavor. Two return routes are reproduced on this group of cars: SKUs -01 through -03 have “Return to PRR Madisonville, Ohio” (Even in 1973, the reference to the PRR continues!) SKUs -04 through -06 have “Return to Essex Terminal R.R. Windsor, ONT.” This is great example of 1970s+ railroading.
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