Description
Railroad Short Name: BLE
Bessemer & Lake Erie (B&LE) “Conspicuity Repaint” 2005+ replicates the black repaint version of these B&LE hoppers, including the conspicuity striping, representing the 2005 to present era. 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.
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
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