Product Description
Introduced in 1972, the Greenville 60' Double Plug Door Box Car was built for auto parts service. Railroads contributed freight cars as a part of equipment pools, and these pools served the automobile manufacturing and supply facilities of automobile makers. The equipment pools were constituted in such a way that there wasn't correspondence between the paint schemes of railroad equipment and the home rails of the facilities which these cars served. Once in a pool, one paint scheme was as likely to be seen as another, and some cars were hardly ever seen on home rails. For the majority of its service life, the Greenville 60' Double Plug Door box cars were assigned to Ford Motor Plant in Lima, Ohio--as designated by the pool number 322. The Greenville 60' Double Plug Door cars were then distributed across service routes to facilities across the country which used this component.
Autoparts traffic was hot for the railroad. Not all automobile manufacturing facilities inventoried parts. They were received by the railroads in just-in-time' fashion to keep assembly lines fluid. As a result, a delay from the railroad could mean that entire assembly lines would halt for lack of parts. The jobs of switching these facilities were only extended to sr. engineers of good record. As one engineer reported, cars would move in and out of the facilities in such a way as to sync with the demands of the assembly line. Switching the facility was an intricate dance with no tolerance for error.
Just like the prototype, ExactRail's Greenville 60' Double Plug Door Box Car is sure to be hot. Enjoy the Next Generation of Model Railroading today.
HIGHLIGHTS
•Precision micro-tooled!
•Designed, engineered and tooled in the United States!
•Factory installed Kadee #58 coupler
•Narrow-style draft box, featuring: shank wedges, striker casting and full nut and bolt detail.
•ExactRail's exclusive ASF 100 ton 'Ride Control' trucks
•CNC-machined metal wheel sets with all new metal axles!
•Wire grab irons and brake rods
•Razor sharp painting and printing
•Wire coupler cut levers and separately applied air hoses
•Etched metal Morton style roof walk and brake platfrom
EP-80803-1 has the 'Colossus of Roads' moniker
In 1979, Greenville Steel Car Company introduced the 3242 cu.ft. capacity, 65'-6" mill gondola. Three railroads purchased the car originally, and of the 750 total cars built, 500 went to the Missouri Pacific. Per the other railroads, Chicago and North Western received 150 cars, and Southern Pacific received 100 cars.
The Greenville 65' Mill Gondola is a prolific car, and a corrugated gondola of this type has been long absent from modelers. ExactRail is pleased to offer the Greenville 65'-6" Mill Gondola with the signature design elements that make this car so distinctive, including the corrugated side panels, box-channel end posts and oval-shaped 'hook and pull' apertures at the sill.
With interior corrugations and internal tie down detail, ExactRail's Greenville 65' Mill Gondola is one gon that will have you thinking twice about adding a load!
HIGHLIGHTS
•Precision micro-tooled!
•Designed, engineered and tooled in the United States!
•Factory installed Kadee #58 coupler
•Narrow-style draft box, featuring: shank wedges, striker casting and full nut and bolt detail.
•ExactRail's exclusive ASF 100 ton 'Ride Control' trucks
•CNC-machined metal wheel sets with all new metal axles!
•Wire grab irons and brake rods
•Razor sharp painting and printing
•Wire coupler cut levers and separately applied air hoses
Product Description
Beginning in the 1970s, the output of Western coal production became significant. With this increase in output, the demand for rotary coal-type gondolas increased as well.
Nearly all of the car manufacturers of the time, such as FMC, Pullman-Standard, Evans, Ortner and Greenville, introduced competitive rotary coal gondolas in a market already
dominated by Thrall. Billed as "A rugged, high-mileage coal car for unit-train operation with rotary dumping service," FMC's 4000 Coal Gondola was successful among utility companies of the mid-west. The Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Central Power & Light Company, and Southwestern Electric Power Company were clients of FMC, and since that time, these cars have passed into the second-ownership of companies like RTI Railway Services. Today, the FMC Gondola, and the similar gondolas of other manufacturers, are used in scrap and tie replacement services everywhere.
ExactRail is pleased to offer the all-new FMC 4000 High Side Gondola! Available in 6 paint schemes and undecorated kits, the FMC 4000 High Side Gondola is now available
•Precision micro-tooled!
•Designed, engineered and tooled in the United States!
•Factory installed Kadee No.5 coupler
•Narrow-style draft box, featuring: shank wedges, striker casting and full nut and bolt detail.
•ExactRail's exclusive ASF 100 ton 'Ride Control' trucks
•CNC-machined metal wheel sets with all new metal axles!
•Razor sharp painting and printing
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