Scale Trains HO Rivet Counter Trinity 82′ Reefer BNSF “Early Thermo King”

Description

Railroad Short Name: BNSF

These modern reefers handle the same types of loads their ice-bunker and mechanical predecessors hauled. The hotshot BNSF intermodal from the San Joaquin Valley to Chicago usually has a block of these reefers on the head-end, just as the earlier versions of the same trains had on the Santa Fe since the 1960s. Others handle frozen potato products from Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington over the former Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines. The JRSX cars also handle frozen potatoes from the same areas, usually routed over Canadian Pacific. Although most of the fresh meat traffic has left the rails, BNSF is still using the Trinity reefers to haul meat to the Port of Los Angeles for export to Asia. In addition to these specific usages, the BNSF Trinity reefers can be found in almost any BNSF manifest train as well as on any of the major railroads in the United States.

Features:

• Era: 2001 to present
• Series BNSF 793000 to 793809; built 2/2001-9/2002
• Road numbers: 793267, 793274, 793296, 793324, 793334, 793348, 793371, 793374
  • Early Thermo King refrigeration unit
• Fully-assembled
• Multiple road numbers
• Sound equipped versions feature:
  • Track powered, capacitor circuit
  • Operating Led-lighted control panel
  • Sound turns on and off via a touch sensor located under the center of the car roof.
  • Adjust the volume by pressing a button on the bottom of the car
• 82’ 7883 cubic foot smooth side body
• 12’ plug door with recessed tops section and separate door rods and door handle
• >Cylindrical Refrigeration unit fuel tank
• Intricate A end refrigeration unit access platform with photo-etched metal platform deck
• Fuel tank end cage with separate plastic frame and wire grabirons
• Smooth roof
• Underbody brake rigging and components located specifically to match the 7883 cubic foot car
• Factory-applied ladders, metal grab irons, tack boards, 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
• Photo-etched stainless-steel see-through Morton (stamped round hole) coupler crossover platform on B end of car
• Semi-scale coupler boxes
• Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale lower shelf Type E couplers
• Highly-detailed ASF Family of Trucks (FOT) 100-ton trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data; 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
• FRA-224 yellow conspicuity stripes
• Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
• Packaging safely stores model
• Minimum radius: 22”
• Recommended radius: 24”