- Product: Pullman Standard 4000 HT Triple Coal Hopper
- Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
- Truck: Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname-specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part
- Wheels: CNC-Machined 36″ Wheels
Chicago & North Western (C&NW) Ph 2 Clinton Repaint 8-1985 PS4000 represents the 1980s CNW program repaint cars into Clinton green with yellow ends, which lasted well into the 2000s. CNW’s paint and lettering specification included yellow ends to designate the rotary end of the coal hopper. The scheme includes the classic “ball and bar” scheme with a red ball and black bar. Interestingly, this specific series of CNW cars did not have the distinctive trapezoids on the car sides but instead had flat panels, which forced us to tool a different body shell specifically for this CNW order in order to be correct! These cars were similar to the BN cars because they had the “short B end, long A end” body configuration with offset truck bolster spacing, although they had ladders on the left side of the car instead of grab irons. CNW ordered two groups of these Pullman 4000 cubic foot cars of equal numbers. This Tangent release focuses on the common green repaints that were in coal service, as well as coke, aggregate, and tie services as well later in life. Don’t miss out on these classic cars from 1985! We offer this scheme in 24 road numbers so you can model a unit train! And don’t forget, you can mix these hoppers with our black and white CNW cars from 1975, in stock at Tangent and at stores!
Features for these coal hopper replicas include:
- 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
- Two different coal loads (one load is included with each model)
- Separately-applied “car shaker” parts
- “See-through” brake platform
- Full “lacy” AB brake detail and train air line
- Rubber air hoses including “wrong side” mounting for rotary ends
- Five dimensionally-correct coal hopper body variations with appropriate side panel arrangements (trapezoidal and flat), as well as offset and non-offset truck center arrangements
- Six different assembly builds within our system
- Road-specific details for each scheme, including different brake appliances and 2 different styles of unloading door mechanisms
- Beautiful details – wire grab irons and coupler lift bars – no “molded on” plastic grab irons here!
- Accurate interior bracing parts
- Precision Tangent Scale Models 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with roadname-specific rotating bearing caps and separate brake beam part
- CNC-machined 36” wheels
- Replacement 36” semi-scale wheels for our “rotating bearing cap” trucks are available separately from Tangent in either blackened or nickel-silver finish
- Genuine Kadee® scale “scale-head” couplers
- Recommended age 14 years and older
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