Tangent HO PS 3400cf Quad Coal Hopper Bessemer & Lake Erie “Bicentennial 11-1975” #65000

Description

Railroad Short Name: BLE

The Tangent Scale Models Pullman-Standard 3400cf Quad Coal Hopper is a state of the art, dimensionally-accurate scale replica with highly accurate “true-to-life” colors and precise letter stencils.  Our Pullman-Standard 3400cf Quad Coal Hopper offers an unparalleled level of accuracy, including the replication of the COR-TEN steel color!  This replica includes our fine “near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail.  Our ready-to-operate replica is finished scale metal grab irons, coupler lift bars, accompanying Kadee® scale couplers and NMRA-compliant yet hidden weights to ensure the model operates as good as it looks.  At more than 120 parts per car, genuine Kadee couplers, and all-metal wheels, we provide you with a high-value model that will provide you with years of enjoyment and curb-appeal.

Bessemer & Lake Erie (B&LE) “COR-TEN Delivery Black 1975” replicates the large 550 car delivery Pullman-Standard delivered to B&LE in 1975.  The Tangent model features an accurate 1975-built Pullman body.  For the car’s construction, Pullman-Standard used the distinctive Pullman “trapezoid” indentations on the flat side panels, as well as riveted construction.  This Tangent model executes all of those details, inside and out.  The Quad hopper bays have separate door and door frame detail.  The hopper doors themselves are fitted with intricate Wine door locking mechanisms, accurate for these Pullman cars.  The B-End of the car has an accurate Ajax high handbrake, Morton brake step and modern brake wheel.  Inside, the models have a gorgeous (and removable!) flood-style coal load.  These coal cars roll on Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with separate truck brake beams and rotating “Brenco-6” caps.  On the car sides, Pullman painted the cars with black “strips” of paint in the two locations where identification stenciling was needed, including the B&LE initial and road number and CAPY block at left, and then the distinctive B&LE logo and COTS panels at right.  Also, the center sill, end slope sheets and brake components were painted black.  In between and everywhere else?  COR-TEN naturally-rusted, unpainted steel.  Check it out – it looks hot!  We have worked hard to replicate the look of the cars in their recently-delivered, “weathered steel” appearance, which got “darker” as the cars aged.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Pullman-Standard 3400cf Quad Coal Hopper plans and verified with field measurements
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• Industry-leading “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme
• Beautiful, B&LE representative “flood-style” coal load
• “See through” brake step platform
• B&LE-specific details, including correct Ajax brake wheel housing
• Beautiful details including separately-applied scale wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded on” plastic grab irons or “thick” plastic grab iron parts anywhere on this replica!
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back detail
• Our precision Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with prototype-specific “Brenco-6” rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part
• Weighted to NMRA specifications – yes, even with the coal load removed
• Recommended age 14 years and older