Description
Railroad Short Name: DRGW
Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) “Delivery 1969 Orange” offers the bold Rio Grande graphics as-delivered from Greenville Steel Car Company. D&RGW received 30 cars in November of 1969 and they were painted bright orange with the huge “the Action Road” lettering. The model features accurate Keystone Center-of-Car Cushioning (COCC) and full truck-mounted brake piping and details, just like the prototype. The ends of the COCC draft gear extend beyond the ends of the car and feature carefully-painted yellow coupler centering device handle detail. Take a look at those gorgeous 100-Ton “Low Profile” Barber S-2-A trucks that show off the accurate rotating Hyatt roller bearing caps. This D&RGW scheme features an accurate return route to P.C.R.R. in Utica, Michigan.
Features:
- Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual Greenville blueprints and verified with field measurements
- Highly correct “true to life” colors
- “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
- Body shells with or without overlapping side panels
- Roofs with running board supports remaining in place (1965+ appearance since the running boards were gone by 1966) and roofs without running board supports (1965+ Greenville production)
- EOCC (end of car cushioning) or COCC (center of car cushioning) “near scale” draft gear variations
- Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
- Separate flexible rubber air hoses
- Under car brake system variations
- “See through” etched metal end crossover platforms in three possible options: Gypsum, Apex, or Morton
- Side tack board types/sizes and locations
- Twelve (!) prototypically-accurate brake stands (Ajax, 2 Universal versions, 2 Equipco versions, 2 Miner versions, Champion-Peacock, 2 Elcon-National versions, Peacock 850, Klasing 1150)
- Two possible handbrake “brake wheel” options
- Optional 3rd door crank arm parts to be configured one of three ways
- Multiple truck options: 70-Ton Barber S-2A Roller Bearing Truck, 70-Ton Barber S-2 “Birdsboro foundry” Roller Bearing Truck or a 100-Ton “Low Profile” Barber S-2-C Roller Bearing Truck
- 33” or 36” wheels, as applicable, with front and back detail and accurate tapered axles
- Two truck brake beam part options, as applicable
- Three “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options
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