Description
Railroad Short Name: PTLX
Pullman-Standard introduced a 5820cf capacity car for plastics in late 1971. The cars featured four bays and had a length of nearly 70 feet. The earliest versions featured a peaked roofline and 17 exterior posts per side. Later versions adopted the trademark P-S “clerestory” roofline that was also utilized on their landmark 4750cf grain hopper. While the oldest 5820 cars have been withdrawn from interchange service, many cars built after July 1st, 1974 remain in revenue service today.
The new ScaleTrains™ Rivet Counter™ HO Scale series model of the Pullman-Standard 5820cf covered hopper represents many months of painstaking research and engineering work in order to capture the original design features of the prototype, as well as changes made to the cars late in their lives. All three production versions have been created, and various appliances that cover the cars from their first days until the present have been tooled.
The models feature wireform grab irons on the end cages, etched stainless-steel running boards and crossover platforms, separately-applied shaker brackets, underbody plumbing, trainline hoses, two different styles of vents, three different styles of outlets, four different styles of roof hatches, and semi-scale coupler draft gear equipped with ScaleTrains all-metal Type E couplers (draft gear is compatible with Kadee whisker-type, or Sergent compatible-shank couplers).
These cars come equipped with Barber S-2 100-ton trucks that feature separate brake beam detail, as well as two new styles of rotating bearing caps installed as appropriate: Timken, or Brenco 6-sided caps. Weighted to match NMRA specifications, these smooth-rolling, highly-detailed models are available in a wide variety of paint schemes for modelers of the 1970s to the present.
Features:
- Era: 1972 to 2005
- Series 41350 to 41499; built 2/72, PS Lot 9520A
- Road numbers 41359, 41372, 41397 and 41406
- Fully assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Early body with 17 posts and peaked roof
- Offset end vents
- Photo-etched stainless-steel see-through Apex (slotted) roofwalk with metal grab irons
- Tri-wheel roof hatches
- Photo-etched stainless-steel see-through Apex (slotted) coupler crossover platforms
- Outlet bays without Shaker Brackets
- Micro-matic pneumatic outlet gates
- Factory-applied ladders with metal rungs
- Factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
- Brake wheel, stand, and chain
- 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 couplers
- Highly-detailed Barber S-2 100-ton 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
- 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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