Tangent Scale Models HO Seaboard System/CSXT (SBD/CSXT) “Black Repaint 1987+” Bethlehem Steel 3350CuFt Quad Coal Hopper – #345926

• Product: Bethlehem 3350 cuft Quad Hopper
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with rotating Timken bearing caps and separate brake beam part
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 36″ Wheels

– SBD / CSXT “Black Repaint 1987+” takes us back to early days of the CSX.  In 1987, the ex-L&N South Louisville Car Shops were still in full swing, repainting cars.  These repaints featured SBD reporting marks and the now-familiar CSX logo on the hopper car sides.  This group of CSX repaints is pulled from ex-L&N Bethlehem cars built in 1976.  The models feature an accurate body for this ex-L&N series, including rounded top chord corner caps, paired lower posts at the side bolsters, and tiny accurate triangle supports on the bottom chord near the bolster posts.  The B-end of the model features an accurate Universal 7400 high handbrake, “modern” brake wheel and Morton-style brake step.  Inside, the models have a gorgeous (and removable!) flood-style coal load.  These coal cars roll on Tangent 100-ton Barber S-2 trucks with separate truck brake beams and rotating Timken caps.  The CSX lettering on the cars is carefully replicated, and includes varying CAPY data, South Louisville paint codes and COTS data across the different car numbers.  We see you, patient 1980s and 1990s modelers, and we are pleased to release these CSX repaints in 24 numbers.  These models are available with month-specific repaint dates: SKUs -01 through -11 are 6-87.  SKUs -12 through -21 are 5-87.  SKUs -22 through -24 are 4-87.  It’s time to haul coal