Tangent HO PS2 2929 Covered Hopper Louisville & Nashville

Description

Railroad Short Name: L&N

Louisville & Nashville (L&N) “Delivery Gray 10-1963” shows us the earliest Pullman-delivered PS-2 2929s in original gray paint.  The L&N graphics are carefully duplicated on the car, from the slanted “L&N” reporting marks and three-inch “Roman” style capacity data, down to the one-inch Pullman data.  These L&N cars differ from the other 2929s that we offer because they have 5 pairs of roof hatches with staggered spacing, as opposed to the “standard” evenly-spaced hatches common to the other 2929s of the era.  But don’t worry — we have tooled this L&N-specific roof to execute this model correctly.  And if you look closely at the prototype and model photos, you will see we didn’t stop there.  The L&N 2929 LOs also feature truck-mounted brake gear.  This translates to the B-end missing the brake cylinder (instead there are small brake cylinders on each truck brake beam) and a fine brake air line visible, hanging down from the underframe between the bays (instead of pipe linkage and the automatic slack adjuster).  The B-end of the car has more L&N-specific details like a beautiful Klasing 1700 power brake, separate short handle, modern brake wheel, Cobra brake shoe holder and a small brake badge above the defect card holder.  This L&N replica rides on 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with Timken rotating bearing caps and the three bays are equipped with Enterprise discharge gates.  Metal corner stirrup steps and flexible rubber air hoses on each end of the car provide durability.  These models are available with October 1963-specific paint dates.  Commodities carried included feed and cement.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual Pullman-Standard PS-2 2929 Covered Hopper plans
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• Industry-leading “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme
• Two different possible roof configurations
• Multiple discharge gates
• “See through” Apex or Morton running boards and Morton brake step platform
• Road-specific details for each scheme, including 3 brake wheel housing options, 2 brake cylinder options, 2 retainer valve mounting options and multiple B-End bolster web plate detail options.
• Beautiful details including separately-applied scale wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded on” plastic grab irons or “thick” plastic grab iron parts anywhere on this replica!
• Brass corner steps
• Separate flexible rubber air hoses
• CNC-machined 36” wheels with accurate front and back detail
• 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 (2 possible options!) OR our all-new Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with Retaining Bolts.
• Weighted to NMRA specifications