• Dimensional accuracy – designed from actual field measurements taken from the prototype car resting in Toledo, OR
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee® scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• “See through” etched crossover platforms
• Separate standoff door track details
• Precision Stanray ends and roof matching these prototypes
• Hydra-Cushion underframe layout and design including metal brake rods and hangers
• Road-specific details for each scheme, including 3 brakewheel housings options, 2 brakewheel options, “3rd Arm” door part options, 2 different crossover platform combinations and multiple tack board designs
• Beautiful details – wire grab irons and highly detailed “trombone style” coupler lift bars – no “molded in” plastic grab irons here!
• Durable rubber air hoses
• Our precision Tangent Scale Models 70-ton “Birdsboro foundry” Barber S-2 trucks with prototype-specific rotating bearing caps (four possible options!) and separate brake beam part (2 possible options!)
• CNC-machined 33” wheels
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme
• Recommended age 14 years and older
– St. Louis Southwestern (SSW) “Cotton Belt” B-70-42 Repaint 1984+ pictured here is a 1984-era repaint scheme. In 1984, the SP/SSW was busy renumbering some of the SSW’s B-70-42 boxcars into the 59000 series. Their new paint jobs stood out with a smaller but distinctive yellow “CUSHION-CAR” graphic on the left with the familiar “COTTON BELT” bold graphics to the right. Sharp-eyed fans will note the sans-serif reporting marks and data – this is accurate for this era of SSW B-70-42 repaints. Like the SP cars pictured above, the Cotton Belt cars also had Morton crossover platforms and an Ajax handbrake. These cars were retrofitted with “3rd Arm” door hardware along the top door tracks. These cars came delivered on 70-ton “Birdsboro foundry” Barber S-2 trucks with “Timken” roller bearing caps.
