Description
Railroad Short Name: L&N
General American Transportation Corporation produced more than 5,000 of these 4180 cubic foot Airslide covered hoppers between 1963 and 1980 as a response to customer demand for larger covered hoppers capable of handling bulk commodities. These very common cars continued General American’s “Airslide” family innovations from the 1950s, and proved valuable to bulk shippers who wanted a larger car than the earlier-design 2600 cubic foot cars provided. These cars went to many railroads and private owners both when produced by GATC, as well as later in their service lives.
Tangent has included the distinctive “see through” bolster arrangements above the trucks. The 4180 Airslide hoppers include finely-detailed underframe pipe arrangements and are ready for any of the following services on your layout: flour, sugar, starch, fertilizer, feed, chemicals, plastics, carbon black, etc. Also, check out the correct “true-to-life” colors and “hyper-accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement. Tangent’s scale replicas operate as well as they look, equipped with free-rolling all-metal wheels and Kadee® scale couplers, meaning the models are truly ready to run.
L&N “Original 11-66” rolls in by Tangent. While the L&N has a half-dozen small orders of 4180 cars, Tangent picked the 1971 order, with its gray body and black underframe, originally assigned to sugar loading. Low mounted brake details are featured on this series, along with an Apex running board and Brenco 6-sided roller bearing caps. All that beautiful L&N lettering is present and accurately rendered on the model including the smallest Polyclutch liner trust data and road-number specific car assignment stencils. Cars 202000, 202006 and 202007 feature an accurate L&N return stencil to New Orleans, Louisiana, while cars 202011, 202012 and 202014 have an accurate return stencil to IC RR at Reserve, Louisiana.
Features for these replicas include:
- Dimensional accuracy – designed from General American plans and verified with field measurements
- Highly correct “true to life” colors
- “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
- Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
- “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
- Multiple road numbers for each scheme
- “See through” etched metal running boards
- 3 specific production variations that highlight production from 1965-1980, including different roofs, running boards (Apex or Morton), body side post (“rib”) profiles, high and low brake arrangements on the B end, different ladder and grab iron arrangements, with or without crossover platforms and handrails, etc. Sell off the toy trains – we do freight cars right.
- Lacy details – wire grab irons and coupler lift bars
- Separate air hoses
- CNC-machined 36” wheels in high quality Tangent Scale Models trucks, with semi-scale wheels available separately
- Recommended age 14 years and older
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