Tangent HO Trinity 4750 Covered Hopper CSX

Description

Railroad Short Name: CSX

CSXT “Delivery 1988” is now available in the now-classic CSXT beige covered hopper scheme.  CSX was the first railroad to adopt Trinity’s Pullman-design 4750 and because of that, the phase details of the car make it very similar to a “late-Pullman” build.  We call these cars “Version 1” Trinity Pullman-Design 4750s!  The cars have riveted end corner and side posts synonymous with the Pullman-built cars.  CSXT also specified that their 4750s have hazardous material placard holders on both sides and both ends of the car, which Tangent has included with their unpainted aluminum finish.  Up on the roof of the cars are unpainted galvanized “slope up” Morton-design running boards which also include end supports, and the galvanized steel trough hatches that Trinity built are replicated on our model.  On the ends of the cars, Trinity designed a weld line in the end sheet, angled defect card holders, straight-handle coupler lift bars, Universal 9200 brake housing, and a different brake pipe layout than the Pullman-built cars, all of which is accurately modeled on our Tangent replicas.  Underneath the cars, the center sill dividers have access holes in them like they should.  The train air line runs down the BR side of the car.  The stenciling on the cars includes the CSX lettering with the lines below each character, and the “A CSX Quality Car” lettering in a small rectangular box.  This CSX artwork is carefully replicated for these Trinity cars, from the large, slightly “condensed” CSX logo lettering down to the carefully reproduced 1988-era Trinity builder logo.

Features:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Pullman-Standard plans and verified with field measurements
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme
• Road-specific details for each scheme
• “See through” etched metal running boards and crossover platforms (in 6 possible combinations)
• Multiple new carbody configurations
• Multiple brake layout configurations
• 4 all-new brakewheel housing and clevis options
• 6 new outlet gates
• 9 all-new original + replacement style roof hatch parts
• 4 jacking pad varieties covering Trinity production from 1988-1995
• 5 different AEI tags covering different railroad-specified applications
• Models with and without shaker bracket parts, as appropriate
• Beautiful details – wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded in” plastic grab irons here!
• Separate air hoses
• 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!)
• CNC-machined 36” wheels
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers