Tangent Scale Models HO 25518-05 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Grand Trunk Western ‘Delivery 12-1969’ GTW #305759

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25518-05 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Grand Trunk Western ‘Delivery 12-1969’ GTW #305759

Grand Trunk Western GTW ‘Delivery 12-1969’ is notable for several reasons. First, the classy GTW scheme looks especially good on this car with the large GT logo centered between the paired doors. Second, GTW was the largest purchaser of Greenville’s quad door box car design, making them highly statistically relevant for modelers in the US and Canada. Painted in the characteristic GTW blue color with white stenciling, these cars were seen widely. The GTW cars feature their as-built 1969 appearance that includes Gypsum crossover platforms, Ajax brake hand brake housing, Greenville-applied tack board locations and that End-of-Car Cushioning underframe setup. 70-Ton Trucks with 33” wheels and rotating ‘Benco-6’ roller bearing caps finish off this dominant offering. Our GTW are available in eight different 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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