Tangent HO 86′ Greenville High Cube Quad Door Box Car Union Pacific “Automated Railway 1972+”

Description

Railroad Short Name: UP

Union Pacific (UP) “Automated Railway 1972+” is a great example to show the ever-changing auto parts pool world. The UP acquired D&RGW’s fleet of two Greenville 86’ Quad Door cars in 1972. The Union Pacific Omaha Shops repainted the cars into handsome UP Armour Yellow and silver colors complete with UP Shield on the left and the colorful “Automated Railway” logo on the right. The models feature all of that accurate Greenville 1970 detailing, including Gypsum style crossover platforms, an Equipco 4000 hand brake housing, accurate Freightmaster End-of-Car Cushioning details with Wabcopac truck-mounted brake hardware, and 70-Ton Barber S-2 Trucks with 33” wheels and rotating “Timken” roller bearing caps. The model features a return Route to the PC RR in Indianapolis, Indiana for GM parts service.

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 overlapping side panels
• 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 arm hinge parts to be configured one of three ways
• 70-Ton Barber S-2 “Birdsboro foundry” or 100-Ton Barber S-2-C roller bearing truck options
• 33” or 36” wheels, as applicable to these 70T/100T models
• Truck brake beam part, accurate for these 1969-1970 built Greenville production cars
• Three “rotating” roller bearing truck cap options