Tangent Scale Models HO 25031-06 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car 'Original 1968' Missouri Pacific ‘Buzzsaw’ MP #271658

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25031-06 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car 'Original 1968' Missouri Pacific ‘Buzzsaw’ MP #271658

Missouri Pacific MP ‘Original 1968’ represents one order of five different lots of Greenville auto parts box cars, with this lot being the largest at 157 units.  The prototypes were delivered with MP ‘buzzsaw’ logos on the right side of the car, and economical ‘Cushion Car’ lettering on the left.  The artwork has duplicated the distinctive and intricate MP lettering style from the reporting marks down to the smallest stencils.  The cars offered in this run were assigned to Ford’s Chicago Stamping Pool, resulting in an accurate Chicago Heights, Illinois return route stencil.  Center-of-Car Cushioning draft gear detail variation with yellow end handles, distinctive Klasing 1150 hand brake, and accurate Apex crossover platforms.  These cars lasted in original paint into the late 1980s and were seen everywhere.

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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