Tangent HO Trinity 4750 Covered Hopper Union Pacific “Center Shield”

Description

Railroad Short Name: UP

Union Pacific (UP) “Delivery 1993” is an exciting offering for us, because Union Pacific was a large user of the Trinity 4750 as well.  Union Pacific ordered these cars in a more neutral gray than previous covered hopper purchases – not the typical, darker, “Harbor Mist” gray.  The cars have the distinctive UP shield in the center of the car that screams 1990s UP painting practices.  We call these cars “Version 4” Trinity Pullman-Design 4750s, and they continue with the Trinity variations found on earlier prototypes, notably the changeover in jacking pad design to one that is less long horizontally, and with an oval-shaped attachment hole in the center.  These Trinity 4750s include the “bolt on” outlet gate design that was found on some of the Trinity 4750 prototypes, however they do not include shaker brackets on the outlet bays!  Up on the roof of the cars you will find unpainted galvanized “slope up” US Morton-design running boards which also include end supports, and the galvanized steel trough hatches that Trinity applied are replicated on our model.  Every railroad had different hatches, and UP is no exception.  The ends of the cars include a truck-brake system design, Universal 9300 brake housing, tube-style defect card holder, and straight-handle coupler lift bars, all of which are accurately modeled on our Tangent replicas.  Underneath the cars, the center sill dividers have access holes in them like they should.  On the side of the cars, the UP requested a distinctive and different AEI tag that was angled downward, presumably for better car reads.  These cars carrying this UP paint scheme were from a grouping of 1,800 cars purchased from Trinity Industries.  The first 12 road numbers carry October 1993 build dates, whereas the second 12 road numbers carry November 1993 build dates.

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