Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
NS “NW HC-71” 1989+ offers a full NS repaint scheme, first showing up on the rails in 1989. While the individual NW reporting marks were maintained, repaints from this era featured the Norfolk Southern Railway logo. The models wear NS light gray and feature a smooth-style replacement roof hatch, slotted jacking pads above the bolsters and Keystone Portloc outlet gates.  Each Tangent car number is carefully matched to prototype photos and features accurate CAPY, Instruction side lettering, COTS, truck class and end data for these 1973/1974 Roanoke-built cars. Yes, every car is different. We have even applied Stucki HS-7 snubbers on the 100-Ton trucks, based on individual car numbers – SKU -09 has the Stucki snubbers while SKUs -01 through -08 and -10 through -12 do not. The accurate 100-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing Trucks feature rotating Timken caps and 36” all-metal wheels.
Features:
- Dimensional accuracy – designed from N&W/Pullman-Standard plans and verified with field measurements
- Highly correct “true to life” colors
- “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
- “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
- Multiple road numbers for each scheme
- Road-specific details for each scheme
- “See through” etched metal running boards and crossover platforms
- N&W Roanoke side and end carbody details, including distinctive side post huck bolt rows
- Accurate N&W Roanoke brake layout configuration
- Brake wheel housing and clevis options
- Outlet gates
- Original + replacement style roof hatch parts
- New jacking pad varieties covering N&W specific Roanoke production from 1973-1979
- 5 different AEI tags covering different applications
- Beautiful details – wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded in” plastic grab irons here!
- Separate air hoses
- Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with prototype-specific rotating bearing caps (four possible options!) and separate brake beam part (2 possible options!)
- SKU-specific Stucki HS-7 Snubber option applied as needed on Tangent’s Barber S-2 trucks
- CNC-machined 36” wheels
- Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
- Recommended age 14 years and older
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