• 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
– Denver & Rio Grande (D&RGW) “Delivery 1969” Gunderson box cars were delivered with the distinctive D&RGW “Grande Gold” paint coupled with black ends with roof overspray. The prototype “Rio Grande” graphics were carefully fitted to the available 7 panels of space to the right of the doors. The white paint at the tops of the ends reminds you that this is a “high-cube” car. The Rio Grande cars feature truck mounted brake details and no body-mounted brake cylinder on the Hydra-Cushion underframe. The D&RGW cars also featured accurate “unpainted” Morton style crossover platforms, early “5-board” large tack boards on the sides and ends and an Ajax handbrake. The 70-ton “Birdsboro foundry” Barber S-2 trucks rode on Hyatt roller bearings. Tangent is offering HO scale replicas with your choice of 12 numbers that match these beauties.
