Tangent Scale Models HO 25044-04 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 'Quality Repaint 1992+' ATSF #36574

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25044-04 Greenville 86' Double Plug Door Box Car Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 'Quality Repaint 1992+' ATSF #36574

Our April 2023 release replicates a distinctive group of Greenville cars: the 1970 Brownstown, Michigan Ford Parts Pool. The Ford Brownstown Parts Redistribution Center came online in 1970 and supplied the Ford Parts Depot Network around the United States. Parts Depot destinations for these cars included cities like Seattle, WA, Denver, CO, New Orleans, LA, Jacksonville, FL and more. It is important to note that these cars are pooled – so that means any of the BRO cars can be loaded for any BRO pool location! This means that mixing and matching these BRO cars would be accurate to prototype practices.  

Visually, these 1970 cars are different from any other Greenville car, with extra vertical rivets rows on the sides of the cars at each end. These rivets attach to the prototype’s interior posts for the DF2 belt rails, allowing palletized parts to be loaded on the DF2 interior crossbars. Eleven of the railroads participating in the Ford BRO Pool used cars supplied by Greenville Steel Car Company. With the extra riveted interior posts, the inset end panels on each March 1970-built Greenville side are more narrow. No other Greenville 86’ box car lot looks like this.

During the 1960s, the most radical freight car designs employed the extreme height clearances offered by Plate F car designs. In 1964, no car type articulated this extreme more than the 86-foot, purpose-built “Auto Parts” boxcars. These large boxcars became fixtures on the rails all over North American mainlines, riding hot trains to deliver components vital to the productivity of auto plants. While several car builders offered 86’ auto parts boxcars, the most prolific builder of the double plug door design was Greenville Steel Car Company of Greenville PA. More than 4,400 of these cars were acquired by most major railroads, and they were assigned to pools where multiple railroad’s cars served a specific shipper or shippers. Original utilization of these cars was for Ford, Pontiac, and Chrysler, as well as deliveries from 3rd party parts suppliers to the auto plants. Greenville’s 1964-1978 production was the longest run for this car type, with many still in service today.

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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