Tangent HO ICC Erie Bay Window Caboose Erie w/ Lights

Description

Railroad Short Name: Erie

Erie Railroad (ERIE) “Delivery Red 1953” w/ Interior Lights and Lit End Lanterns replicates the as-delivered ERIE paint scheme and configuration from International Car Corporation.  The carbody is painted “Safety Red” with a black roof, bottom sill and underframe.  This is an incredibly sharp paint scheme with the ‘RADIO EQUIPPED” lightning bolts flanking the bay window – and it screams 1950s railroading.  The rooftop running board is unpainted (silver).  Check out that wagon wheel antenna and ground plane on the roof, along with tiny elbow vent pipes.  The underside is packed with details like full brake rigging, battery box, toilet dump pipe and a low hanging generator with cabling and axle belt.  The ends feature an accurate Miner brake wheel.  The model rides in Tangent’s All-New General Steel Casting “Express” trucks with 33″ standard .110” tread CNC wheels.  Notice the Repack data is stenciled on the right hand truck face, a neat little detail applied by ICC Kenton.  The caboose has a fully-painted green and black ICC applied interior.  For lighting, this Tangent ERIE model is equipped with “golden” interior lights, mimicking the incandescent bulbs of the real cabooses along with lit corner lanterns with red and green lenses on one end.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from meticulous field dimensions using real tape measures on two real ERIE ICC cabooses
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme, as appropriate
• Road and Era-specific details for each RTR scheme, including multiple body, roof, underframe detail and truck combinations
• A beautiful Stanray “overhanging” diagonal panel roof
• Accurate step and end tread patterns
• See-through end platform options
• See-through and treadplate step options
• Multiple end door options
• Multiple brake wheel options
• Underframe details to match as-built ICC and later railroad-modified configurations
• Multiple roof configurations for different roof walkway, brackets, antennas options
• Underframe and truck axle drive generator options
• Different end railing/marker light options, based on paint scheme and era
• Two different wire “coupler lift bar” detail options, per prototype application
• Accurate ICC interior, including seating, conductor desk, lockers, electrical cabinet, coal stove, coal bin, toilet closet and more. The interior is accurately painted based on the paint scheme and era
• Full underbody details – brake system with brake rods and piping, release rod, battery charging plug, battery box, generator and belt – all based on the prototype!
• Beautiful side wire curved grab irons and intricate ICC rivet applications
• LED illuminated interior lighting “warm” lights to replicate incandescent bulbs of the prototypes that can be controlled on or off
• LED illuminated corner lanterns/body side marker lights/end marker lights/FRA flashing end lights, all based on prototype era, paint scheme and appropriate research. We do this dirty work for you – you can trust us. And don’t worry, all of these lights can be controlled on or off – on each end – independently
• No complicated decoder. No complicated programming. No complicated electronics. DC/DCC compatible track-powered “no fuss” interior and marker light lighting – simple and easy to operate with included wand
• CNC-machined standard RP25 .110” tread 33” wheels (Yes, semi-scale .088” wheels are available separately!)
• All-New truck: General Steel Casting Corporation “Express” Truck
• Alternate later era truck options includes Tangent’s 70-Ton Barber Roller Bearing and 70-Ton Gould Plain-Bearing Caboose Trucks
• Recommended age 14 years and older