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verfügbar ab Apr. 2024

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Tangent Scale Models is pleased to announce the availability today of our third all-new freight car release for 2024: the HO Scale Greenville Steel Car Company 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door Box Car System! This is the latest Greenville Auto Parts box car product in our line of “family-appearance” cars that introduce market-leading design and tooling practices, geared toward consumers who desire the most accurate models with a “family-appearance” between prototypes manufactured by the same builder.

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. But here are where the similarities end. Greenville produced these box cars with two significant body variations:

• Greenville Steel Car’s production from 1963-1964 had a distinctive “narrow” wheelbase design, and was ordered by DTI, EL (2 orders), DT&I, DTSL, GBW, N&W, MP, MKT, MP, NKP, NYC and WAB
• Greenville Steel Car’s production from the 1965-1966 period changed to a “outset” wheelbase design which made them look more like the box cars produced by the other carbuilders. These later phase cars were ordered by CP, DTI, EL, GTW, LN and SLSF

Fourteen railroads initially bought these cars, with some of them receiving merger-related repaints and some of them changing hands. Most of these workhorses remained in service into the 2000s.

The Tangent Scale Models Greenville 6000cf 60’ Double Plug Door box car is a dimensionally-accurate replica of the real car, designed from actual blueprints. Our Greenville 60’ system includes multiple bodies and design details to handle two different truck centers, corresponding prototypical sill and plug door changes, and accurate roofwalk and end appliance configurations appropriate for the era of the model. Additionally, we include a beautifully-rendered “Diagonal-Panel” roof, complete with accurate Stanray ends and the Greenville “rivet rows” on the sides of the model. Underneath, the car includes prototypical brake piping, appliances, and our “near-scale” draft gear box including side “key” detail. These cars are ready to roll with three possible Tangent-accurate truck and wheel options. Our ready-to-operate replica is finished with coupler lift bars accompanying Kadee® scale couplers, sufficient hidden weights, and CNC-machined wheels to ensure the model operates as good as it looks.

True scale and true to life miniature model for adult collectors.
Not suitable for children under 14 years.