Tangent HO Gantt Manufacturing Bay Window Caboose Norfolk Southern “Chattanooga Terminal, 2008”

Description

Railroad Short Name: NS

Norfolk Southern (NS) “Chattanooga Terminal 2008″ w/ FRA End Light & Interior Lights is a familiar sight to those in Tennessee.  The real caboose sits inside Norfolk Southern’s DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, TN at a picnic grove.  It was repainted bright red in 2008 for the NS Chattanooga Terminal, promoting the slogan “Your Choice, Our Future.”  The one side of the caboose body features the battery access door and charging plug.  Underneath, the 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing Generator Caboose Trucks with 33″ standard .110” tread CNC wheels are equipped with an accurate Safety Electric axle generator.  For lighting, this Tangent NS model is equipped with “golden” interior lights and FRA red end lights.  A wand is included to operate the lights – easy with no fuss!

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from meticulous field dimensions using real tape measures on four real SOU Gantt cabooses – see “thank you” section below for more details for our project field research
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme, as appropriate
• Road and Era-specific details for each RTR scheme, including multiple body, roof, underframe detail and truck combinations
• A beautiful Stanray “terminating” diagonal panel roof with accurate huck bolt details everywhere!
• Accurate step and end tread patterns
• Underframe details to match as-built Gantt configurations
• Multiple roof configurations for different roof walkway bracket, antenna and solar panel mounting locations
• Underframe and truck axle drive generator options
• Different end railing/marker light options, based on Gantt build date and era
• Two different wire “coupler lift bar” detail options, per prototype application
• Accurate SOU-specific interior, including iconic angled-back notched bay window seating, conductor desk and stationery equipment locker, tall lockers, coal stove, coal bin, open toilet area with retention tank, sink, water storage tank, ice chest and more. The interior is accurately painted in Southern’s Silver Gray Enamel.
• Full underbody details – brake system with brake rods and piping, release rod, and even the toilet air flush tank for the inside retention tank – all based on the prototype!
• Beautiful side wire curved grab irons and intricate Gantt end railings in plastic
• LED illuminated FRA end lights with a proper SOU “solid on” (i.e. no flash) that can be controlled on or off – on each end – independently, where appropriate by paint scheme
• LED illuminated interior lighting “warm” lights to replicate Aladdin lamps or incandescent bulbs of the prototypes that can be controlled on or off
• No complicated decoder. No complicated programming. No complicated electronics. DC/DCC compatible track-powered “no fuss” interior and marker light lighting – simple and easy to operate with included wand
• CNC-machined standard RP25 .110” tread 33” wheels (Yes, semi-scale .088” wheels are available separately!)
• Two Southern Railway truck options: “Road” cabooses are equipped with all-new 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing Generator Caboose Trucks, and “Local” cabooses are equipped with all-new 50-Ton Plain Bearing/Leaf Spring Caboose Trucks.
• Recommended age 14 years and older