Description
Railroad Short Name: FXE
Features:
- Era: 2024 to present
- Series incomplete; first cars built 11/2024
- FRA-224 yellow conspicuity stripes
- Fully-assembled
- Car rack numbers and ARR rack clearance data is specific to each road number
- Current body type
- 14 photo etched metal side panels
- Late style side panel with large perforated holes
- Upper side panel mounting with three (3) outside mounting tabs and no strip
- Two (2) main bodies of rack mounting holes in painted side panels for bilevel cars
- Late end doors with “zig-zag” angle panels
- Separate door rods
- End sill step, end sill grab irons, and side sill grab irons
- Low mounted side ladders
- Photo etched metal defect card holder
- Globehopper GPS assembly on B end of car, opposite side of car from brake ratchet
- New Greenbrier builder’s plate
- Factory-applied metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses
- Outside side sill brake cylinder and brake beam mounting brackets
- Outside 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, painted a dingy gray/brown color to represent the color of couplers in service
- Highly-detailed ASF low deck swing motion trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data; rotating black Timken three-sided bearing caps; separate “truck-mounted brake” brake beams; and side bearing detail
- Painted reporting mark and road number on all four truck side frames
- 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
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Packaging safely stores model
- Minimum radius: 24”
- Recommended radius: 26”
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