Tangent Scale Models - HO Scale - Greenville Steel Car Company 6,000 CuFt 60ft Double Plug Door Box Car - Version 5: Undecorated KIT Phase 3 Body with Keystone U/F, Truck Brakes - Red/Gray (SKU 20009-33004-01)
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:
– Version 5: Undecorated KIT Phase 3 Body w/Keystone U/F, Truck Brakes provides an unpainted KIT, ready for assembly and painting. This kit includes the Phase 3 1966 body with wider 46’ 3” truck centers, low ladders and brake wheel. The underframe is the “Keystone” Center-Of-Car setup with truck-mounted brake gear details. This kit includes both 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps and 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks and CNC-machined 36” wheels. This phase is a match for EL and LN. You supply your own favorite couplers.
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