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!

Lancaster & Chester (L&C) Delivery 1-1952 40′ PS-1 9′ Door Boxcar

• Product: Pullman-Standard 40’ PS-1 9′ Door Boxcar
• Scale: HO Scale 1:87.1
• Truck: Tangent Barber S-2 50-Ton plain bearing
• Wheels: CNC-Machined 33″ Wheels
• Era: 1952-1964

– Lancaster & Chester (L&C) “Delivery Brown 1-1952” illustrates the second railroad to order these PS-1 box cars with 9’ Doors. The Southern Railway ordered more than 2,000 of these 9’ door cars during the transition era, but interchange railroad partner Lancaster & Chester – a smaller railroad located off the Southern Railway between Charlotte and Columbia SC also ordered these cars for delivery from Pullman-Standard in 1952! These cars have distinctive “early” side sill configurations that have a pronounced deep side sill support underneath the door area only, ending before the trucks. These models have the early version of the Superior 9’ door, and Miner handbrake housings and wheels like the prototype did. These cars have the “classic” transition-era red carbody. Stenciling includes the classy “The Springmaid Line” logo on the right side of the car, a Pullman Bessemer plant logo, and the classy Lancaster and Chester stylized roadname graphics. The “Springmaid Line” is a reference to the railroad’s one-time owners, Spring Mills, which is a textile company that became famous for producing towels, sheets, and other cotton textile products sold under brands such as Springmaid. The railroad hauled both inbound materials and outbound finished goods. The railroad also served other shippers in a region of South Carolina that is still a vibrant railcar consumer today. The roof is painted with black car cement just like the prototype, and includes the typical Pullman overspray onto the top of it from the sides and at the ends. Finally, these models ride on Tangent’s gorgeous Barber S-2 50-Ton plain bearing truck, complete with separate brake beam detail. Tangent Scale Models Lancaster & Chester models include a 1-52 shop date.

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