Tangent HO 60′ Thrall Double Plug Door Box Car Milwaukee Road “Brown”

Description

Railroad Short Name: MILW

Milwaukee Road MILW “Repaint 6-1979” provides a heavily-requested repaint scheme for the late 1970s-early 2000s modelers.  Milwaukee purchased 10 cars in 1969, and by the late 1970s, the MILW’s Milwaukee shops were cycling them through for repainting.  The model is a careful recreation of 1979 Milwaukee Road graphics and data.  This model features Freightmaster End-Of-Car Cushioning, but the Stanray coupler centering device equipment has been removed.  Yes, this matches the prototype photos.  The model has Ajax brake equipment on the B End along with a modern brake wheel and later-era replacement coupler lift bars.  Also present are era-correct single Auxiliary Top Crank arms at the top of each of the plug doors.  This replica is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps.

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