Tangent Scale Models HO 25514-03 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Southern NS-era ‘BS-84 Claytor Repaint 1987+’ SOU #42413

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25514-03 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Southern NS-era ‘BS-84 Claytor Repaint 1987+’ SOU #42413

Southern SOU NS-era ‘BS-84 Claytor Repaint 1987+’ is a very common 1980s paint job in the world of auto parts cars, this one for the Norfolk Southern NS system.  After the NS merger, NS continued to paint cars in pre-NS schemes, this ‘Claytor scheme’ repaint included.  The Southern cars were built in February of 1970 as part of a lot that included the distinctive Center-Of-Car cushioning details.  We have duplicated those same features underneath and on the ends, with the extended draft gear.  The Claytor repaint features the original Apex crossover platforms with a Universal brake stand and brakewheel.  Check out those gorgeous new 70-Ton Barber S-2 Birdsboro Foundry trucks with rotating ‘Timken’ roller bearing caps, just like the prototype.  These are available with four road numbers.

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. They 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 was Greenville Steel Car Company of Greenville PA. Greenville produced their Quad Door design in the 1969-1970 period to meet the expanding needs of GM and Oldsmobile production facilities. Like the Double Door cars, these Quad Door cars were acquired by many railroads, and they were assigned to pools where cars from multiple railroads served a specific shipper.

The Tangent Greenville 86’ High Cube Quad 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. Finally, our Greenville 86’ High Cube Quad Plug Door Box Car models feature our all-new 70-Ton Barber S-2 ‘Birdsboro foundry’ Roller Bearing Truck.

Our era and railroad-specific detail variations include:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual Greenville blueprints and verified with field measurements
• Highly correct true to life colors
• Hyper-Accurate lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Body shells with overlapping side panels
• EOCC ‘end of car cushioning’ or COCC ‘center of car cushioning’ near scale draft gear variations
• Genuine Kadee scale couplers
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Under car brake system variations
• See through etched metal end crossover platforms in three possible options: Gypsum, Apex, or Morton
• Side tack board types/sizes and locations
• Twelve prototypically-accurate brake stands: Ajax, 2 Universal versions, 2 Equipco versions, 2 Miner versions, Champion-Peacock, 2 Elcon-National versions, Peacock 850, Klasing 1150
• Two possible handbrake brake wheel options
• Optional 3rd door arm hinge parts to be configured one of three ways
• All-new 70-Ton Barber S-2 ‘Birdsboro foundry’ Roller Bearing Truck
• 33” wheels, as applicable to these 70T models
• Truck brake beam part, accurate for these 1969-1970 built Greenville production cars
• Three rotating roller bearing truck cap options
• Recommended age 14 years and older

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