Description
Railroad Short Name: BNSF
The biggest challenge for railroads and the automobile industry, the primary user of coiled steel, was how to transport it efficiently. In the 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, working with the Detroit Toledo & Ironton and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, came up with the design of the coil steel car. The original design was a heavy-duty frame with two 24-foot troughs covered by hoods made of thin steel. The troughs and movable load dividers prevented the coils from rolling side-to-side or sliding while the hoods protected the coils from the weather. Several freight car builders built coil steel cars, including Thrall Car Manufacturing which built these 48-foot, twin hood cars in the 1980s and 1990s. The first Thrall cars had a 100-ton capacity, but later versions were built to a 125-ton capacity. Wearing the protective hoods on, the car can carry coils up to 7 feet in diameter. They can carry coils up to 10 feet with the hoods removed. The flat-top hoods from the first designs have been replaced with a rounded top design that is both easier to manufacture and is stronger.
Road Number Specific Features:
- Era: 2013 to Present
- Series 534100 to 534149; ex- ATSF 92000 to 92049, built 10-11/93
- Road numbers 534100 and 534122
- End conspicuity striping placed above end grab irons
- Side conspicuity striping centered vertically on car side
- 2 x Version 1 Hood – BNSF: No corner reinforcement, long side handrail, hood stacking brackets with outer extensions, BNSF hood end sheet reinforcements
- Road numbers 534106, 534110 and 534134
- End conspicuity striping placed on end of car body
- Side conspicuity striping offset up on car side
- 2 x Version 1 Hood – BNSF: No corner reinforcement, long side handrail, hood stacking brackets with outer extensions, BNSF hood end sheet reinforcements
- Road number 534147
- End conspicuity striping placed above end grab irons
- Side conspicuity striping offset up on car side
- 2 x Version 1 Hood – BNSF: No corner reinforcement, long side handrail, hood stacking brackets with outer extensions, BNSF hood end sheet reinforcements
Features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Body with dual trough design and center divider, sixteen walkway side supports and simulated wood trough interior. Designed for the use of two hoods although, depending on the type of steel, the car can be run without hoods as well.
- Body has four wireform side grab irons and four wireform end grab irons
- Each hood is constructed with up to 27 individual parts including 12 photo etched handrail stanchions, six wireform handrails, four wireform grab irons, two hood stacking brackets, two hood top braces, and lifting bail
- Handbrake housing with finely detailed wheel and chain
- See-through photo-etched metal walkway
- Simulated wood interior floor using a hand applied wash
- Four (4) positionable load dividers
- Four (4) large unwrapped coil steel loads with metal weight inside each
- Factory-applied end handrails, hood guides, stanchions, load divider tracks, metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
- Complete underbody brake system with over 20 separately applied parts including air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve plus wireform plumbing and trainline pipe with brackets
- Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale SE Type lower shelf knuckle couplers
- Highly-detailed Barber S-2 100-ton trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data, rotating bearing caps, side bearing detail, and separate brake beam 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
- FRA-224 yellow conspicuity striping
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-199 ATSF Freight Car Red
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Packaging safely stores model
- Recommended radius 18”
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