Tangent Scale Models HO 33011-06 Greenville 6,000CuFt 60' Double Door Box Car Conrail '932B Repaint 1976+ Large Logo' CR #219082

Our March 2024 introductory production of our Greenville Steel Car Company 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door Box Car System includes FIVE all-new RTR paint schemes.

Conrail CR '932B Repaint 1976+ Large Logo' transports us back to the early days of Conrail. This group of cars models former NYC Lot 932B cars that were repainted by the CR’s Hollidaysburg Car Shops. These prototype cars feature the 1963-era body – so that means inset 41’ 3” truck centers and a shorter sill. But it is 1976, so the running boards are gone and the brake appliance and ladders have been lowered. We have carefully duplicated all these features on the model. If you look closely, you will see the 'torched off' running board bracket remnants on the roof and the former bolt/strap remnants of the ladders on the sides and ends. The sides of the body have the CR-specific bolster area reinforcements, too. Yes, we tool these specific body and roof versions to get it right. Other features on the model include accurate 'cut-down' low ladders, a Universal power brake/brake wheel, end crossover grab irons and Apex crossover end walkways. The double-plug doors have 'Auxiliary Top Crank' arms to match the era. Underneath, you can identify that beautiful Keystone Center-Of-Car Cushioning underframe with the centered return unit and offset return spring. The underside crossbearer connectors are taller and hang lower on this version of the underframe, a distinctive look that you can easily see from the side of the car. And you just knew this was coming: The model has Tangent’s All-New 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with 'removed' journal box lids. You can actually see the rebuilt Timken bearing caps in there– just like the prototype. These are cool examples of 1970s repaints.

Features for our Greenville Steel Car Company 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door Box Car replicas include:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Greenville Steel Car Company plans
• Highly correct 'true to life' colors
• 'Hyper-Accurate' lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme where appropriate
• Multiple Greenville Steel Car Co. body shells to handle side and end phase/era feature combinations 1963-2000s
• Separately applied door rods, handles, tackboards and door track details.
• See through Apex running board where appropriate
• Roofs options include: Installed running board, former-running board torched brackets, and no-running-board variations
• Genuine Kadee scale couplers
• COCC 'Center Of Car Cushioning' 'near scale' draft gear with 'Keystone' and 'Hydra-Cushion' variations
• Underframe detail and brake system variations
• Multiple crossover platform variations: Apex, Gypsum and Morton
• Multiple brake step variations: Apex, Gypsum and Morton
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Beautiful details – metal stirrup steps, wire roof grab irons, wire coupler lift bars and 'Tangent-Thin' ladders – no thick chunky plastic details anywhere
• Two coupler lift bar variations
• Sixteen prototypically-accurate brake stands (Ajax High (2), Universal High, Champion-Peacock 1148 High, Peacock 1600 High, Miner 6600 High (2), Ajax Low (2), Champion-Peacock 1148 Low, Peacock 1600 Low, Miner Low, Miner 6600 Low (3), Klasing Low
• Three possible handbrake 'brake wheel' options
• Four different Auxiliary Top Crank arm parts to be configured in multiple ways
• Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname-specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam parts
• All-New Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with separate journal lids and separate brake beam parts
• Four 'rotating' roller bearing truck cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing truck
• Three journal lid cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing truck
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back profile detail
• Replacement 36” semi-scale wheels for our 'rotating bearing cap' trucks are available separately from Tangent in either blackened or nickel-silver finish
• Genuine Kadee scale 'scale-head' couplers
• Recommended age 14 years and older

Prototype Information:

The 1960s freight car building boom was fueled by demand for specialty car types. A key type were 60’ box cars designed for dense auto parts such as engines, bumpers, axles, and glass. Greenville Steel Car was a box car innovator, first introducing these 60’ auto parts cars in 1963. Greenville’s box cars had a distinctive 'fishbelly' sill design, and centered Youngstown Steel Door Company double plug doors with a 16-foot door opening. But here are where the similarities end. Greenville produced these box cars with two significant body variations:

• Greenville Steel Car’s production from 1963-1964 had a distinctive 'narrow' wheelbase design, and was ordered by DTI, EL (2 orders), DT&I, DTSL, GBW, N&W, MP, MKT, MP, NKP, NYC and WAB
• Greenville Steel Car’s production from the 1965-1966 period changed to a 'outset' wheelbase design which made them look more like the box cars produced by the other carbuilders. These later phase cars were ordered by CP, DTI, EL, GTW, LN and SLSF

Fourteen railroads initially bought these cars, with some of them receiving merger-related repaints and some of them changing hands. Most of these workhorses remained in service into the 2000s.