Tangent Scale Models HO 25519-04 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Illinois Central ‘Delivery 2-1970’ IC #680044

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Tangent Scale Models HO 25519-04 Greenville 86′ Quad Plug Door Box Car Illinois Central ‘Delivery 2-1970’ IC #680044

Illinois Central IC ‘Delivery 2-1970’ is a hot car, no matter how you look at it.  That orange paint coupled with the sharp black and white split-rail logo is one of the most iconic schemes for that era. The IC cars feature their as-built 1970 appearance that includes Gypsum crossover platforms, Ajax brake hand brake housing, Greenville-applied tack board locations and that beautiful End-of-Car Cushioning underframe setup.  The paint, lettering and graphics are truly ‘Tangent Accurate’ from the large, centered ‘Illinois Central’ lettering down to the distinctive IC-style dotted return route box with instructions to send the car back to the GTW in Flint, Michigan.  70-Ton Trucks with 33” wheels and rotating Timken roller bearing caps finish off this ‘Mainline of Mid-America’ offering.  Our IC masterpieces are available in four 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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