Tangent Scale Models HO 33012-03 Greenville 6,000CuFt 60' Double Door Box Car Erie Lackawanna 'Delivery Red 1966' EL #67828

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.

Erie Lackawanna EL 'Delivery Red 3-1966' replicates the as-delivered EL paint scheme for a large order of 47 cars. The prototype cars were delivered in very-late March and early April of 1966, right in the middle of the rules change concerning prototype running board application. These EL cars were the first Greenville 60’ group to be built with low ladders and no running boards. If you look closely at the model, you can spot the rivets around the areas of the car side and ends where high ladders and brake gear would have been mounted. Greenville Steel Car had already drilled the holes for the 'high' equipment, and simply filled the holes with rivets to finish the order. Yes, these cars were built new with low ladders. We have duplicated this interesting look on the models, with the correct wider 46’3” truck centers, low side ladders, non-symmetrical low end ladders and low Ajax brake gear. The underframe is equipped with an accurate Keystone Center-Of-Car Cushioning underframe and truck-mounted brake hardware details. The model has Tangent’s All-New 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with accurate journal box lids for the EL. The graphics on the model are carefully executed, with the Erie Lackawanna’s logo, Roman-style data and Greenville Steel Car-style small data all faithfully reproduced. This group of cars has a return route to the NYC and Ford’s Monroe, Michigan Stampings plant. Available in 8 numbers, with SKUs -01 through -04 NEW in 3-66 and SKUs -05 through -08 NEW in 4-66.

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.