Description
Railroad Short Name: CR
As hot rolled coil steel production accelerated during the 1960s, the railroads needed to provide railcars to secure outbound loads of this “hot” commodity. PRR’s Samuel Rea shops answered the market call with a customized railcar: PRR introduced the G41 coil steel gondola in 1965 but quickly made modifications to the design and produced the G41A from 1966 to 1968. The G41A was a gondola design with 6 transverse troughs of varying sizes, designed to handle different loading combinations and coil roll diameters. G41As initially included specialized coil hoods that protected the loads. The G41A fleet saw modifications from Conrail in the 1990s, notably the removal of walkway supports and hood alignment guides. In 2000, NS heavily rebuilt these cars from 6 to 5 internal troughs to accommodate larger diameter coils common for the era.
CR “G41A Repaint 1997” offers a late CR example where the G41A body has changed. Gone are the hoods, side walkways, and side hood guides. Additional drop grab irons were added to the sides at the stirrup steps, and the bottom grabs on the ends were also changed to drop style. The ends feature a long-style coupler lift bar bracket, shining even more light on the extended flaring draft gear. An Ajax brake housing and Morton crossover step finish off the end details. The 125-Ton trucks have accurate 38” wheels installed with rotating Timken caps. If you look closely at the CR data, you can spot the CR Hollidaysburg paint stencil!
Features:
- Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual PRR G41A blueprints
- 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 Cushion Draft gear “flare” detail
- “See through” crossover platforms
- Precision Stanray ends and roof matching these prototypes
- Center-of-Car Cushion underframe layout and design
- Road-specific details for each scheme including 3 different trough bodies, brakewheel housing options, coupler lift bar bracket options, 2 different crossover platform combinations.
- Beautiful details – wire grab irons and highly detailed coupler lift bars – no “molded in” plastic grab irons here!
- Durable rubber air hoses
- Strong metal stirrup steps.
- Our precision Tangent Scale Models 125-ton ASF trucks with rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part
- CNC-machined 38” wheels
- Weighted over the NMRA-recommended weight so they can operate well when empty
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