Tangent Scale Models HO 25028-03 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car 'Original 1-1969' Chicago Burlington and Quincy CB&Q #15040

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25028-03 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car 'Original 1-1969' Chicago Burlington and Quincy CB&Q #15040

Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy, CB&Q ‘Original 1-1969’ is our first Greenville 86’ auto parts offering for any of the ‘Hill Lines.’  CB&Q was the only Hill Line railroad to take delivery of auto parts cars, and this release represents the first of CB&Q’s two orders of Greenville prototypes.  Delivered in 1969 when the BN merger plan called for green car deliveries, these cars had their pre-merger paint scheme, complete with large ‘Burlington’ lettering.  For return route stenciling, these cars state ‘When Empty Return To GTW RR Pontiac MICH’ on the side.  For additional context for how far and wide these cars traveled, these cars served into Canada.  The car side has one and a half inch stenciling stating ‘This Car Too High To Clear St. Clair Tunnel Port Huron Michigan.’  This warning lettering varied from car to car, and we have duplicated this with car-number specific and car-side specific placement of St. Clair tunnel stenciling.

The Tangent Greenville 86’ High Cube Double Plug Door Box Car system is a state of the art, dimensionally-accurate scale replica that was tooled to Greenville Steel Car plans and verified with field measurements. Our model comes with highly accurate ‘true-to-life’ colors and ‘hyper-accurate’ lettering including exact stenciling, fonts, and lettering placement. Our Greenville 86’ system of models offers a multitude of detail variations and phases to replicate the many different Greenville Steel Car offerings. 

Features for these replicas include:

• Body shells with or without overlapping side panels
• EOCC - end of car cushioning or COCC - center of car cushioning, ‘near scale’ draft gear variations with genuine Kadee scale couplers
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Roofs with running board supports remaining in place - 1965+ appearance since the running boards were gone by 1966 and roofs without running board supports - 1965+ Greenville production.
• Under car brake system variations
• Etched metal ‘See through’ end crossover platforms in three possible options: Gypsum, Apex, or Morton
• Side tack board types/sizes and locations
• Seven prototypically-accurate brake stands: Ajax, Universal, Equipco, Miner 6600, Champion-Peacock, Elcon-National, Peacock 850
• Two possible handbrake ‘brake wheel’ options
• Optional 3rd door arm hinge parts to be configured one of three ways
• Two brand new truck sideframes:   

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• 33 inch or 36 inch wheels, as applicable to each model
• Two brand new truck brake beam part options
• Three brand new ‘rotating’ roller bearing truck cap options
• Recommended age 14 years and older

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