Tangent’s September 2026 release delivers a new production run of their HO Scale Pullman-Standard PS-1 40’ Boxcar with 9’ Door! This is the third Pullman-Standard boxcar system – after Tangent Scale Models PS-1 40’ Mini Hy-Cube and PS-1 40’ Combination door box cars – in their line of cars that introduce market-leading design and tooling practices, and is geared toward modelers who desire the most accurate models with a “family-appearance” between prototypes manufactured by the same builder.

Pullman-Standard’s PS-1 box car line evolved to feature a variety of different door combinations in order to satisfy customer requests for “purpose-built” box cars. Across the transition and early diesel eras, between 1951 and 1962, Pullman-Standard built 9-foot door, 40-foot long PS-1s for several railroads. Each railroad specified different doors and other appliances, and as production progressed the exterior sill and end arrangements changed. Railroads purchased the 9-foot door cars for various services, including forest products, machinery, appliances, paper, and merchandise, where the large 9-foot door opening made loading with forklifts significantly easier. These cars wandered all over the North American rail network into the late 1980s.

The Tangent Scale Models PS-1 9-foot door boxcar will stand out on your layout just like the real cars did. Tangent Scale Models include incredible road-specific detailing, and they have produced three road-specific body shells. Each model includes see-through running boards, accurate door options, multiple hand brake options, wire brake piping, release rods, metal underbody-mount stirrup steps, and fine bracket grabs and ladders. Like all Tangent models, these cars come standard with HO scale’s most accurate colors and car stenciling. These models are finished with correct road-specific plain or roller bearing 50-ton trucks, representing a total of four all-new truck designs for Tangent Scale Models 40’ PS-1 system car replicas. Finally, Tangent Scale Models cars are weighted properly and are equipped with Kadee couplers which means they operate as good as they look.

A quick synopsis of Tangent Scale Models era and railroad-specific detail variations include:

• Dimensional accuracy – designed from Pullman-Standard plans
• Highly correct “true to life” colors
• “Hyper-Accurate” lettering including exact fonts and lettering placement
• Genuine Kadee scale couplers
• “Near-scale” draft gear box with beautifully-rendered side “key” detail
• Multiple road numbers for each scheme where appropriate
• Very fine Pullman-style ladders
• Very fine Pullman-style bracket grab irons
• Flexible rubber air hoses
• Road-specific details for each scheme, including:

o Specific body side configurations for sills and door tracks

o 3 different PS-1 end configurations

o “See through” running boards (in 2 possible combinations)

o “See through” brake steps (in 2 possible combinations)

o 5 different brake housings (Equipco, Ajax, Klasing, Miner, or Universal as appropriate)

o 5 different brakewheel options (Equipco, Ajax, Klasing, Miner, or Universal)

• Four precision truck options (also available separately!)

o Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton Barber S-2 Roller Bearing truck – with rotating “Timken” bearing caps! Yes, this is a truck never-before available in HO scale!

o Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton ASF A-3 Ride Control Roller Bearing truck – with rotating “Timken” bearing caps! Yes, this is a truck that only Tangent offers in HO scale!

o Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton Barber S-2 Plain Bearing truck

o Tangent Scale Models 50-Ton ASF “Ride Control” Plain Bearing truck

• CNC-machined High-Detail 33” wheels (including accurate contour wheel backside!), with blackened or nickel-plated semi-scale tread (0.88”) available separately, for either rotating or non-rotating truck options (see above)
• Recommended age 14 years and older

Don’t miss out on the Tangent Scale Models 40’ PS-1 9’ Door Boxcar models, which went everywhere in North America! Everyone needs paper and lumber and general XM box cars! With accurate roadname and era-specific details, genuine Kadee couplers, and all-metal wheels, Tangent Scale Models provide you with a high-value model that will provide you with years of enjoyment and curb-appeal. Everyone modeling pre-1980 needs 40-foot box cars! And remember – these PS-1s with their large doors look like nothing you already have!

Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Delivery 7-1961 40′ PS-1 9′ Door Boxcar

• Product: Pullman-Standard 40’ PS-1 9′ Door Boxcar
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: Tangent 50-Ton ASF A-3 Ride Control Roller Bearing truck with rotating “Timken” bearing caps
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1961-1982

– Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) “Delivery 7-1961” another classic box car scheme, this time the MKT “red” car with black ends, roof, and underframe. This beautiful car includes the sharp MKT logo in yellow, red, and black – gorgeously replicated of course – with a large “DF” stencil to indicate that the car was equipped with internal loading devices. The left side of the car includes the “M-K-T” (literally!) reporting marks, and the highlight of the car – stenciling to show “WHEN EMPTY RETURN TO AGENT, P.R.R., COLUMBUS, OHIO.” Yes – this part was part of a pool which made them go far and wide, likely assigned to loading at Westinghouse!  Return stencils like these were typical for assigned box cars of the 1960s. These boxcars were built at Pullman-Standard’s Michigan City, IN plant and of course Tangent Scale Models car covers that correctly with the correct stenciling at the left side of the car. These cars include a Pullman-Standard 9’ door, which has a tiny black “DF” italicized stencil on top of the yellow door stencil – a really neat feature if you are paying attention. These cars have a black car cement roof, but the roof includes the typical Pullman carbody color overspray onto the top of it from the sides. This new model rides on the market-leading Tangent 50-Ton ASF A-3 Ride Control Roller Bearing truck – with rotating “Timken” bearing caps!

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