ScaleTrains Rivet Counter (HO) Thrall 48' 2-Hood Coil Steel Car, Union Pacific
ScaleTrains River Counter | HO scale (1:87) | freight cars
| Item Number | Road Number | Stock Status |
| SXT38502 | # 249216 | Sold Out |
| SXT38503 | # 249223 | Sold Out |
| SXT38504 | # 249251 |
In the 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, collaborating with two Detroit-area railroads, created the modern coil steel car design. Over the years, several freight car manufacturers built similar cars, including Thrall Car Manufacturing which constructed these 48-foot, twin hood cars in the 1980s and 1990s. The first Thrall cars had a 100-ton capacity, but later versions were built to a 125-ton capacity. Wearing the protective hoods, the car can carry coils up to 7 feet in diameter. They can carry coils up to 10 feet with the hoods removed.
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The all-new Rivet Counter™ HO Scale Thrall Manufacturing 48’ 2-Hood Coil Steel Car is the definitive model of this unique freight car. True to the prototype, the car features railroad, road number, and era-specific™ features like 5 unique hood versions; as-delivered or contemporary paint schemes; 4 positionable load dividers; 4 large unwrapped coil steel loads with metal weight inside each; a finely detailed body with dual trough design and center divider; plus 16 walkway side supports and simulated wood trough interior. Depending on the type of steel you’re hauling, the car can be used without hoods as well.
- All-new model
- Era: 1997 to 2005
- Series 249135 to 249254, built 12/97
- Road numbers 249180, 249186, 249198, 249216, 249223 and 249251: As delivered paint. No conspicuity striping. 2 x Version 4 Hood: Corner reinforcement, long side handrail, hood stacking brackets with solid inner guides
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Body with dual trough design and center divider, sixteen walkway side supports and simulated wood trough interior. Designed for the use of two hoods although, depending on the type of steel, the car can be run without hoods as well.
- Body has four wireform side grab irons and four wireform end grab irons
- Each hood is constructed with up to 27 individual parts including 12 photo etched handrail stanchions, six wireform handrails, four wireform grab irons, two hood stacking brackets, two hood top braces, and lifting bail
- Handbrake housing with finely detailed wheel and chain
- See-through photo-etched metal walkway
- Simulated wood interior floor using a hand applied wash
- Four (4) positionable load dividers
- Four (4) large unwrapped coil steel loads with metal weight inside each
- Factory-applied end handrails, hood guides, stanchions, load divider tracks, metal grab irons, coupler cut levers, and trainline hoses with silver gladhands
- Complete underbody brake system with over 20 separately applied parts including air reservoir, control valve, and retainer valve plus wireform plumbing and trainline pipe with brackets
- Durable body-mounted die-cast metal semi-scale SE Type lower shelf knuckle couplers
- Highly-detailed Barber S-2 100-ton trucks with finely rendered raised foundry data, rotating bearing caps, side bearing detail, and separate brake beam detail
- Printed reporting mark and road number on all four trucks
- 36” machined metal wheels with accurately profiled .110" wide wheel tread
- Operates on Code 70, 83 and 100 rail
- Printing and lettering legible even under magnification
- Paint colors match Tru-Color Paint color: TCP-172 Weathered Concrete
- Weighted to Industry standards for reliable operation
- Packaging safely stores model
- Recommended radius 18”
