Tangent HO 60′ Thrall Double Plug Door Box Car Santa Fe

Description

Railroad Short Name: ATSF

Santa Fe ATSF “Topeka Shops BX-138 Repaint 10-1979” gives modelers some standout Santa Fe red repaint variations.  ATSF’s big group of 50 Thrall box cars were built in 1969.  As the 1980s approached, Santa Fe’s Topeka, Kansas car shops were busy repainting cars in bright red paint.  The prototypes featured the  “Super Shock Control A Smoother Ride” branding on the right side.  What a paint scheme!  This model features Keystone End-Of-Car Cushioning and related coupler centering devices, matching the prototype photos.  The model has Ajax brake equipment on the B End along with a modern brake wheel and original Thrall coupler lift bars.  The double plug doors are equipped with era-appropriate single Auxiliary Top Crank arms.  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