Description
Railroad Short Name: NS
With several thousand auto carriers built for nearly all North American Class One railroads, the Greenbrier/Gunderson Multi-Max has become the premier auto carrier design of the 21st century. Many of these cars wear colorful paint schemes and feature large logos which help them stand out alongside older autorack designs.
Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Car rack numbers and ARR rack clearance data is specific to each road number
- Early body type
- 14 photo etched metal side panels
- Second corrugated panel row from the left has one solid panel for Norfolk Southern/Horsehead logo
- Upper side panel mounting with four (4) recessed tabs and full width strip
- Lower side panel mounting with three (3) outside mounting tabs and full width strip
- Rack stenciled TRI
- Three (3) main bodies of rack mounting holes in painted side panels for trilevel cars
- Early end doors with flat angle panels and photo etched metal side sill locking rings
- Separate door rods
- End sill grab irons and no side sill grab irons
- High mounted side ladders
- Photo etched metal defect card holder
- Gunderson builder’s plate
- Factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses
- Inside side sill brake cylinder and brake beam mounting brackets
- Inside side sill brake rod support brackets
- Underbody brake plumbing with separate air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve plus separately applied wireform plumbing including trainline pipe with brackets
- Semi-scale coupler boxes
- Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale standard Type E extended shank couplers
- ASF low deck swing motion trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data; Black rotating bearing caps; separate “truck-mounted brake” brake beams; and side bearing detail
- Timken three-sided bearing caps
- Painted reporting mark and road number on all four trucks
- 28” 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
- FRA-224 yellow conspicuity stripes
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: Roof TCP-354 galvanized steel
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 24”
- Recommended radius: 26″
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