BN Phase 3 “Black DOUBLE ROTARY Delivery 1976+” PS 4000 100T Triple Coal Hopper

• 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

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Burlington Northern (BN) Ph 3 Black Double Rotary Delivery 1976+ PS4000 illustrates the same BN scheme as our other BN release, applied to a Phase 3 carbody, which was the 1970s “standard” scheme applied to BN coal hoppers.  These double rotary cars are necessary for many BN coal trains that had to go through a rotary dumper (otherwise the caboose or locomotives had to be uncoupled from the consist).  This scheme is a “Phase 3” car that includes the “Short B and Short A” configuration designated for the BN double rotary cars, and a slightly shorter carbody believe it or not!  Yes, we tooled this version.  These cars also have the “trapezoid” indentations on the carbody side panels typical of all 1975-1976 BN-ordered Pullman coal hoppers.  Available in 2 all-new road numbers for 2022!

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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