Tangent HO NACC 33,000 Gallon “Whale Belly” Tank Car NATX “as Delivered, White”

Description

Railroad Short Name: NATX

NATX “White Lease Delivery 1963” introduces our NATX “plain white lease” paint scheme as applied to the tank car when built in 1963.  While we call it a lease scheme, it is actually a “two tone” – white on top and black on the bottom of the tank body and on the end frames.  These cars feature the Roman-style stenciling in white, which certainly “pops” against the white-painted carbody.  Prominently displayed on this car: the classy “North American” parallelogram logo.  Among many small stencils, the words “Liquified Petroleum Gas Only” is stenciled on the right side, confirming its service use, as well as a myriad of other accurate stenciling.  And like most non-billboard lessee stenciled tank cars, these cars state their lessee in a very small stencil on the car, including the words “Leased to Shell Oil Co.”  These tank cars roll on Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with 36’ wheels, separate truck brake beams and rotating Timken roller bearing caps.

Features:

• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• Industry-leading “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme
• Beautiful 8-course tank body
• “See through” rooftop walkways and end platforms
• “Lacey” handrails and ladders
• With or without separately-applied anti-personnel bars alongside the carbody
• Prototypically accurate hazardous placard mounting locations
• Accurately angled bolster details
• Dimensionally-correct hazardous placards with accurate hole detail
• “See-through” bolster detail just like the prototype
• Detailed brake system including a combination of plastic and wire parts to maximize realism
• Separate flexible durable rubber air hoses
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers – no knock-offs – and schemes that should have shelf couplers… have shelf couplers!
• Our precision Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with prototype-specific rotating bearing caps (four possible options!) and separate brake beam part
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back detail
• Weighted to NMRA specifications