Tangent ~ HO Scale ~ Southern Pacific #490021 ~ Pullman-Standard PS-2 3215CuFt Covered Hopper ~ 35015-01

Southern Pacific “Delivery Gray H-100-1 9-1959”illustrates a very cool Southern Pacific delivery paint scheme, with a significant amount of era-specific stenciling.  The large Southern Pacific is spelled out with red stenciling in the railroad’s classic bold font.  There is a yellow box on the side of the car that declares “Interior Treated For Edible Commodities” which indicates this is a food service car.  Don’t load it with sand or cement!  The models feature a see-through Apex-style running board, “Early-style” round roof hatches, body-mounted brake gear and Enterprise gravity outlet gates.  The B-end of the car features all of the brake details and piping of the prototype, including a gorgeous Ajax brake stand, Ajax brake wheel, Apex-style brake step, high-mounted retainer valve, wire piping details and a finely executed air release rod poking through the bottom sill on each side of the carbody.  If you look closely at that B-end, you will notice we even applied the correct box-style defect card holder for SP.  Metal corner stirrup steps and flexible rubber air hoses on each end of the car provide durability.  The model rides on Tangent’s 100-ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing trucks with Timken rotating bearing caps – all of them simulated the painted trucks found on the prototype!