Tangent HO 86′ Greenville High Cube Box Car Norfolk Western “Hamburger Logo”

Description

Railroad Short Name: NW

Norfolk & Western (N&W) “Delivery 1964 Brown” 1965+ Era replicates the N&W’s first order of 86-foot auto parts box cars in their attractive brown paint with “Hamburger” logo.  This order of forty cars was delivered in July 1964 and they were among the first Greenville 86’ Double-Door cars built.  While the cars were originally built with high ladders and running boards, these features were quickly changed on the prototype cars.  This Tangent model duplicates this 1965+ look.  The prototype’s running board was removed, but the bracket bolt remnants remained up on the roof.  The prototype end appliances were completely rebuilt:  The brake wheel was lowered, the high and low ladders were removed, replaced with “L” grab irons and full-width crossover platforms.  This Tangent model carefully replicates all these features with this 1965+ body, including the bolt remnants where all of that “high” equipment was attached.  This detail includes the body side, showing off the high grab iron remnants in the top-right corners.  This is an important group of details to get right, since these cars operated in this configuration for their entire 1965+ service lives.  The N&W hamburger graphics are carefully recreated on this car, from the large logo down to the small data in Greenville’s distinctive type style.  The return route is accurately stenciled for the Ford Stamping plant on the Wabash Railroad in Buffalo, New York.  Underneath. The model features an accurate Center-of-Car Cushioning underframe with truck-mounted brake hardware, “lowered” Miner hand brake, 1965 replacement full-width Apex crossover platforms, 70T trucks with 33” wheels and rotating “Hyatt” roller bearing caps.

Features:

• 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 or without overlapping side panels
• Roofs with running board supports remaining in place (1965+ appearance since the running boards were gone by 1966) and roofs without running board supports (1965+ Greenville production)
• 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 crank arm parts to be configured one of three ways
• Multiple truck options: 70-Ton Barber S-2A Roller Bearing Truck, 70-Ton Barber S-2 “Birdsboro foundry” Roller Bearing Truck or a 100-Ton “Low Profile” Barber S-2-C Roller Bearing Truck
• 33” or 36” wheels, as applicable, with front and back detail and accurate tapered axles
• Two truck brake beam part options, as applicable
• Three “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options