Tangent HO 86′ Greenville High Cube Box Car Seaboard System

Description

Railroad Short Name: SBD

Seaboard System (SBD) “1986 Repaint” is a nod to the classic 1980s and the new corporate image of the combined SCL and L&N railroads.  Formed in 1982, the Seaboard System would go on to officially acquire the remaining Family Lines railroads and Chessie System Railroads by 1987 and become CSX Transportation.  The Tangent model mimics cars from L&N’s first order of cars in 1964.  While the L&N cars were originally built with high ladders and running boards, these features were quickly changed on the prototype cars.  This Tangent model duplicates this 1965+ look: the prototype’s running board was removed; the end appliances were completely rebuilt with a lowered brake wheel and new “L” grab irons and full-width crossover platforms.  This Tangent model carefully replicates all these features with this 1965+ body, including the bolt remnants where all of that “high” equipment was attached.  This includes the body side, showing off the high grab iron remnants in the top-right corners.  These cars were repainted at the former L&N South Louisville Shops in Kentucky and feature the big-bold Seaboard System logo, perfect for 1986.  The ends of the car are painted silver at the tops of the excess height area.  Underneath. The model features an accurate Center-of-Car Cushioning underframe with truck-mounted brake hardware, “lowered” Miner hand brake, 1965 replacement full-width Apex crossover platforms, 70T trucks with 33” wheels and rotating “Hyatt” roller bearing caps.  This has been a heavily requested scheme.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual Greenville blueprints and verified with field measurements
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Body shells with or without overlapping side panels
• Roofs with running board supports remaining in place (1965+ appearance since the running boards were gone by 1966) and roofs without running board supports (1965+ Greenville production)
• EOCC (end of car cushioning) or COCC (center of car cushioning) “near scale” draft gear variations
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• Under car brake system variations
• “See through” etched metal end crossover platforms in three possible options: Gypsum, Apex, or Morton
• Side tack board types/sizes and locations
• Twelve (!) prototypically-accurate brake stands (Ajax, 2 Universal versions, 2 Equipco versions, 2 Miner versions, Champion-Peacock, 2 Elcon-National versions, Peacock 850, Klasing 1150)
• Two possible handbrake “brake wheel” options
• Optional 3rd door crank arm parts to be configured one of three ways
• Multiple truck options: 70-Ton Barber S-2A Roller Bearing Truck, 70-Ton Barber S-2 “Birdsboro foundry” Roller Bearing Truck or a 100-Ton “Low Profile” Barber S-2-C Roller Bearing Truck
• 33” or 36” wheels, as applicable, with front and back detail and accurate tapered axles
• Two truck brake beam part options, as applicable
• Three “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options