Tangent HO 60′ Thrall Double Plug Door Box Car Burlington Northern “Repaint 1985”

Description

Railroad Short Name: BN

Burlington Northern BN “Repaint 1985” shows a distinctive repaint offering.  Frisco’s Thrall box cars became part of the BN freight car fleet with BN’s acquisition of the SLSF in late 1980.  The Frisco’s Springfield, Missouri car shops stayed busy well into the BN era, including repainting cars BN green.  These mid-1980s BN green repaints feature a distinctive graphic style with condensed reporting marks and stencil data.  If you look closely, you will also see the red and white BN Springfield shop sticker in the bottom left of the carbody.  It’s little details like this that make this scheme pop!  This model features Freightmaster End-Of-Car Cushioning, but the Stanray coupler centering device equipment has been removed.  Yes, this matches the prototype photos.  The model has Ajax brake equipment on the B End along with a modern brake wheel and later-era replacement coupler lift bars.  The double plug doors are equipped with era-appropriate double-pairs of Auxiliary Top Crank arms.  This replica is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Thrall Company plans
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme where appropriate
• Multiple Thrall Underframe and Draft Gear assemblies to handle end and underframe phase/era feature combinations 1969-2000s
• Separately applied door rods, handles, tackboards.
• Separately applied door track details.
• “See through” Apex, Gypsum or Morton end crossover platforms where appropriate
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• EOCC (End Of Car Cushioning) “near scale” draft gear with “Keystone” and “Freightmaster” variations
• Underframe detail and brake system variations
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Beautiful details – metal stirrup steps, metal coupler lift bars and “Tangent-Thin” ladders – no thick “chunky” plastic details anywhere!
• Three coupler lift bar variations
• Two Ajax and two Equipco 3750 prototypically accurate brake stands
• Two different Auxiliary Top Crank arm parts to be configured in multiple ways
• Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam parts
• Four “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing truck
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back profile detail
• Replacement 36” semi-scale wheels for our “rotating bearing cap” trucks are available separately from Tangent in either blackened or nickel-silver finish
• Genuine Kadee® scale “scale-head” couplers