Description
Railroad Short Name: TTX
Introduced in 1969, the Bethlehem Steel Co. (BSC) F68-series of 100-ton, 68’ foot long (over end sills) flats represented a new generation of high-capacity flat cars. Extremely versatile, the basic design could be equipped from the factory with a variety of appliances to handle different loadings. Scale Trains’ model is accurately rendered from builder drawings and photos and features road number specific details.
Road Number Specific Features:
- New road numbers
- Era: Early 1990s to Present
- Prototype examples with the 1991 Speed Logo have been documented in service to present day
- Series 81079-81178 (F68AH), built 1973-1974
- Road number 81171
- Data and lettering usage and placement variations
Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Now with factory-applied laser-cut wood deck
- Recessed deck tie-down details
- Photo-etched stainless steel see-through end crossover platforms
- Factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses and connection pipe with silver gladhands
- Modeler applied ACI plates
- Handbrake housing with finely detailed wheel and chain
- Complete underbody brake system with over 18 separately applied parts including air reservoir, control valve, reduction relay valve and retainer valve plus wireform plumbing and trainline pipe
- Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale long-shank Type E knuckle couplers
- Highly-detailed 100-ton trucks with hydraulic snubber and bracket details, rotating black Timken three-sided bearing caps; separate “truck-mounted brake” brake beams; and side bearing detail
- Printed reporting mark and road number on all four trucks
- 36” machined metal wheels with accurately profiled .110″ wide wheel tread
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 18”
- Recommended radius: 22”
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