Description
- Product: Thrall 5,880CuFt 60′ Double Plug Door Box Car
- Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
- Truck: Tangent 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps and separate brake beam parts
- Wheels: CNC-Machined 36″ Wheels
- Modeling Dates: 1985-2005
– Burlington Northern BN “Repaint 1985” shows a distinctive repaint offering. Frisco’s Thrall box cars became part of the BN freight car fleet with BN’s acquisition of the SLSF in late 1980. The Frisco’s Springfield, Missouri car shops stayed busy well into the BN era, including repainting cars BN green. These mid-1980s BN green repaints feature a distinctive graphic style with condensed reporting marks and stencil data. If you look closely, you will also see the red and white BN Springfield shop sticker in the bottom left of the carbody. It’s little details like this that make this scheme pop! This model features Freightmaster End-Of-Car Cushioning, but the Stanray coupler centering device equipment has been removed. Yes, this matches the prototype photos. The model has Ajax brake equipment on the B End along with a modern brake wheel and later-era replacement coupler lift bars. The double plug doors are equipped with era-appropriate double-pairs of Auxiliary Top Crank arms. This replica is equipped with 100-Ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken caps. There are four numbers available, with SKUs 01 and 02 featuring a left-oriented “Burlington Northern” and data, while SKUs 03 and 04 featuring a more center-oriented “Burlington Northern” and data on the car side. Check out the prototype photos on our website to compare the prototypes’ variety
