Tangent HO 60′ Thrall Double Plug Door Box Car Canadian Pacific “CPAA”

Description

Railroad Short Name: CP

Canadian Pacific CPAA “Original 7-1969” replicates the CP’s delivery paint scheme for this Thrall 5880 box car system.  The CP order for 43 cars were built in the middle of 1969 and were painted in a gorgeous reddish-brown.  The roofs were unpainted galvanized steel, with side paint overspray across the roof edges.  Leased through National Equipment Leasing in Pittsburgh, PA, the prototype cars feature simplified CPAA graphics, and all that beautiful Thrall-applied fine data.  The model mimics the prototype, including Keystone End-Of-Car Cushioning and related coupler centering devices, Ajax brake equipment on the B End and a modern brake wheel.  Check out those see-through Apex crossover platforms on each end!  The coupler draft gear includes the yellow-painted coupler centering device handles, too.  Underneath, you can spot those gorgeous Tangent 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps.  Assigned to Ford Parts pool routes, these cars could be seen across the US and into Canada.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Thrall Company plans
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme where appropriate
• Multiple Thrall Underframe and Draft Gear assemblies to handle end and underframe phase/era feature combinations 1969-2000s
• Separately applied door rods, handles, tackboards.
• Separately applied door track details.
• “See through” Apex, Gypsum or Morton end crossover platforms where appropriate
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• EOCC (End Of Car Cushioning) “near scale” draft gear with “Keystone” and “Freightmaster” variations
• Underframe detail and brake system variations
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Beautiful details – metal stirrup steps, metal coupler lift bars and “Tangent-Thin” ladders – no thick “chunky” plastic details anywhere!
• Three coupler lift bar variations
• Two Ajax and two Equipco 3750 prototypically accurate brake stands
• Two different Auxiliary Top Crank arm parts to be configured in multiple ways
• Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam parts
• Four “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options for 100-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing truck
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back profile detail
• Replacement 36” semi-scale wheels for our “rotating bearing cap” trucks are available separately from Tangent in either blackened or nickel-silver finish
• Genuine Kadee® scale “scale-head” coupler