Tangent HO 60′ Greenville Double Door Box Car Detroit Toledo & Ironton “Green Repaint”

Description

Railroad Short Name: DTI

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.

Detroit, Toledo & Ironton DTI “Green Repaint 1978+” provides the modelers with a great example of Greenville 60’ Double Plug-Door cars in a refurbished, repainted version.  In 1978, Detroit, Toledo & Ironton refurbished most of the 1966-built cars at the railroad’s Jackson OH Shops.  The work concluded with a spectacular repaint into the dark green scheme!  The model features the correct carbody details for January/February of 1966, which represents the original build dates for these cars.  These cars were the first cars Greenville produced with the wider 46’ 3” truck centers.  DT&I retained the high ladders on the B end of the car since they did not cut down the brake appliances.  DT&I did remove the running board, and of course our model picks up on all of these small details, even on rebuild paint schemes, which is something Tangent has tooled all of the necessary parts for.  If you look at the doors, you will see the double pair of auxiliary crank arms added to the prototype cars.  The Tangent model carefully duplicates these modern features.  The DT&I lettering is looking good on that green carbody and includes the accurate Return-To-Detroit routing.  Underneath, the model has an accurate Keystone 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.  Also, check out that beautiful Stanray diagonal panel roof – DT&I painted it green.  On the ends, the model is equipped with an accurate Ajax power brake, Modern brake wheel and Apex brake step.  This model is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps.

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