Description
Railroad Short Name: CSS
Features:
- Era: 2021 to present
- Series 1800 to 1889 (broken); ex-Conrail Series 623900 to 623999 F51A; built 9-10/1997
- Road number 1807
- Former Conrail oxide red car
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Early body: built by Thrall, Thrall builder logos, heavy “H” shaped reinforcement on top of draft gear, and end handrails attached to hood ends
- Body has four wireform side grab irons
- Early version 2 hood: end handrails, round top lifting bail, inside guide stacking brackets and single reinforcement hood braces
- Hoods are constructed with up to 47 individual parts including 32 photo etched handrail stanchions, six wireform handrails, four wireform grab irons, two hood stacking brackets, two hood top braces, and lifting bail
- Handbrake housing with finely detailed wheel and chain
- See-through photo-etched metal walkway
- Simulated wood interior floor using a hand applied wash
- Four (4) positionable load dividers
- One (1) large, two (2) medium, and two (2) small wrapped (modeler applied sticker) coil steel loads with metal weight inside each one
- Factory-applied end handrails, hood guides, stanchions, load divider tracks, metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
- Complete underbody brake system with over 20 separately applied parts including air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve plus wireform plumbing and trainline pipe with brackets
- Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale SE Type lower shelf knuckle couplers
- Highly-detailed ASF Family of Trucks (FOT) 100-ton trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data; rotating black Timken three-sided bearing caps; separate “truck-mounted brake” brake beams; and side bearing detail
- Printed reporting mark and road number on all four trucks
- 36” machined metal wheels with accurately profiled .110″ wide wheel tread
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- FRA-224 yellow conspicuity stripes
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
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