Description
Railroad Short Name: UP
Union Pacific (UP) “Ex-MKT 1984+” shows an example of a second life for some of the Greenville MKT cars. In 1984, UP acquired seven of the MKT cars. They were promptly patched and put into service. The models feature a muted red body color, various small MKT era lettering including reweigh and COTS stenciling and fresh UP era patches and reporting marks. The doors even have double pairs of auxiliary crank arms, matching the prototypes in this era. The cars were originally part of the January 1969 order, so they feature an 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. Accurate 100-Ton “Low Profile” Barber S-2-C trucks that show off the rotating Hyatt roller bearing caps.
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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