Tangent HO 60′ Greenville Double Door Box Car Canadian Pacific “Delivery Red 3-1966”

Description

Railroad Short Name: CP

The 1960s freight car building boom was fueled by demand for specialty car types. A key type were 60’ box cars designed for dense auto parts such as engines, bumpers, axles, and glass. Greenville Steel Car was a box car innovator, first introducing these 60’ auto parts cars in 1963. Greenville’s box cars had a distinctive “fishbelly” sill design, and centered Youngstown Steel Door Company double plug doors with a 16-foot door opening.

Canadian Pacific CP “Delivery Red 3-1966” shows the as-delivered red scheme, applied by Greenville Steel Car, Co.  CP rostered 35 cars in this March of 1966 group.  The prototypes featured the fantastic CP script lettering across the full side of the carbody.  There was no doubt who owned this car when it passed by trackside!  The model features the correct carbody details for March 1966, with the wider 46’ 3” truck centers, high ladders and an Apex-style running board.  Check out that beautiful roof overspray on the Stanray diagonal panel roof.  On the ends, the model is equipped with an accurate Ajax power brake, Modern brake wheel and Apex brake step.  Underneath, the model has an accurate Keyston Center-Of-Car cushioning (COCC) underframe with truck mounted brake hardware.  Yes, that means no brake cylinder part – the underframe brake piping routes to small brake cylinders on the brake beams of the trucks.  This model is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps.  The decoration on this model is gorgeous, from the CP script lettering down to the Ford-service return route box to the Canadian Pacific Railway in Windsor, Ontario.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Greenville Steel Car 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 Greenville Steel Car Co. body shells to handle side and end phase/era feature combinations 1963-2000s
• Separately applied door rods, handles, tackboards and door track details.
• “See through” Apex running board where appropriate
• Roofs options include: Installed running board, former-running board torched brackets, and no-running-board variations
• COCC (Center Of Car Cushioning) “near scale” draft gear with “Keystone” and “Hydra-Cushion” variations
• Underframe detail and brake system variations
• Multiple crossover platform variations: Apex, Gypsum and Morton
• Multiple brake step variations: Apex, Gypsum and Morton
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Beautiful details – metal stirrup steps, wire roof grab irons, wire coupler lift bars and “Tangent-Thin” ladders – no thick “chunky” plastic details anywhere!
• Two coupler lift bar variations
• Sixteen (!) prototypically-accurate brake stands (Ajax High (2), Universal High, Champion-Peacock 1148 High, Peacock 1600 High, Miner 6600 High (2), Ajax Low (2), Champion-Peacock 1148 Low, Peacock 1600 Low, Miner Low, Miner 6600 Low (3), Klasing Low
• Three possible handbrake “brake wheel” options
• Four 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
• All-New Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing trucks with separate journal lids and separate brake beam parts
• Four “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing truck
• Three journal lid cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Plain 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
• Recommended age 14 years and older