Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter PS 5820 Covered Hopper Novamont “Moplen”

Description

Railroad Short Name: PLCX

Pullman-Standard introduced a 5820cf capacity car for plastics in late 1971. The cars featured four bays and had a length of nearly 70 feet. The earliest versions featured a peaked roofline and 17 exterior posts per side. Later versions adopted the trademark P-S “clerestory” roofline that was also utilized on their landmark 4750cf grain hopper. While the oldest 5820 cars have been withdrawn from interchange service, many cars built after July 1st, 1974 remain in revenue service today.

The new ScaleTrains™ Rivet Counter™ HO Scale series model of the Pullman-Standard 5820cf covered hopper represents many months of painstaking research and engineering work in order to capture the original design features of the prototype, as well as changes made to the cars late in their lives. All three production versions have been created, and various appliances that cover the cars from their first days until the present have been tooled.

The models feature wireform grab irons on the end cages, etched stainless-steel running boards and crossover platforms, separately-applied shaker brackets, underbody plumbing, trainline hoses, two different styles of vents, three different styles of outlets, four different styles of roof hatches, and semi-scale coupler draft gear equipped with ScaleTrains all-metal Type E couplers (draft gear is compatible with Kadee whisker-type, or Sergent compatible-shank couplers). 

These cars come equipped with Barber S-2 100-ton trucks that feature separate brake beam detail, as well as two new styles of rotating bearing caps installed as appropriate: Timken, or Brenco 6-sided caps. Weighted to match NMRA specifications, these smooth-rolling, highly-detailed models are available in a wide variety of paint schemes for modelers of the 1970s to the present.

Features:

• Era: 1979 to Late 1980s 
• Series 43603 to 43682; built 3-4/79, P-S Lot 1022
• Road number 43673
  • 3/79 build date
• Era: 1979 to Late 1980s 
• Series 43603 to 43682; built 3-4/79, P-S Lot 1022
• Road numbers 43603, 43611 and 43623
  • 4/79 build date
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Late body with clerestory (stepped) roof, and 19 unevenly-spaced side posts without bottom notches
• “Shoulder-mounted” end vents
• Photoetched stainless-steel, see-through Morton (stamped round hole) running boards with metal grab irons at corners 
• “Mon-o-wheel” 24” roof hatches
• Photoetched stainless-steel, see-through Morton (stamped round hole) coupler crossover platforms
• Outlet bays with shaker brackets
• P-S / ITEL Corp. “Micro-matic” pneumatic outlet gates
• Separately-applied corner ladders with metal rungs
• Separately-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
• Peacock (Ellcon-National) 33000 handbrake housing with detailed brakewheel and finely-molded chain
• Detailed brake system with individual air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve details with separately-applied wireform plumbing
• Separately-applied trainline plumbing with mounting brackets mounted to inner sills of carbody 
• Semi-scale coupler boxes with draft key detail
• Durable die-cast metal, semi-scale Type E couplers
• Highly-detailed Barber S-2 (Buckeye Steel Castings Foundry) 100-ton trucks with finely-rendered raised foundry data, separately-applied brake beams, and side bearing detail
• Timken rotating bearing caps
• 36” machined metal wheels with front and rear contour, .110″ wide wheel tread, and tapered machined metal axles 
• Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
• Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
• Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 18”
• Recommended radius: 22”