Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 6,000 CuFt 60ft Double Plug Door Box Car - Wabash (WAB) #50093 - “Delivery Red 9-1963” - Red/White/Gray with White Lettering (SKU 20009-33013-06)
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:
– Wabash WAB “Delivery Red 9-1963” duplicates an order of 25 cars in the classic Wabash “Follow the Flag” livery. This group is some of the earliest Greenville 60’ cars built and features the 41’ 3” narrow-truck centers with shorter sills. The Tangent model executed these same prototype features along with a beautiful Apex-style running board and high ladders for the era. On the end of the car, you will notice an accurate Champion-Peacock 1148 power brake and modern brake wheel. The brake step is Morton, while the crossover platforms are Apex-style, matching the Wabash prototypes. The underframe features an accurate Center-Of-Car “Hydra-Cushion” setup with truck-mounted brake gear details. This model is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps, just like the prototype. The Wabash paint and lettering are carefully replicated down to the smallest detail. It’s all there, and it’s all correct. These Wabash cars have a return route to the NYC in Warren, Michigan.
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