From Chuck's Website

[up1950s]

I'm waiting for the bouncy Chuck head to put on my rear deck .

[Craig Martyn]

Here they are guys:



F89-J 89' Flat Car - Brown "As Delivered" TTX.  Six unique road numbers; era specific detail.

- Features
•  Ready-To-Run
•  Die-Cast Metal Frame
•  Fine-Scale Detail
•  Accurately Painted/Printed (multiple variations!)
•  Collapsed & Raised Hitch Detail
•  Prototypical Ride Height
•  70-Ton BLMA Trucks
•  Fine-Scale BLMA Metal Wheels
•  Body-Mounted Micro-Trains Couplers
•  Six Unique Road Numbers!




PS-2CD 4000 Covered Hopper - Seven ALL-NEW paint schemes; six unique road numbers.

- Features
•  Ready-To-Run
•  Injection-Molded Plastic
•  Fine-Scale Detail
•  Chemically Etched Roof Walk
•  Chemically Etched Brake Platform
•  Accurately Painted/Printed
•  Prototypical Ride Height
•  ALL-NEW 100-Ton ASF Ride Control Trucks
•  ALL-NEW Scale Profile Metal Wheels
•  Body-Mounted Micro-Trains Couplers
•  Three Numbers per Scheme!

[MrKLUKE]

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[Craig Martyn]

No worries Jeff.  Tangent and BLMA Models have a 'strategic partnership' with new models.  This includes, among other things, sharing resources...hence the models.  Simple as that.

[MrKLUKE]

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[FrankCampagna]

Dang!!! Craig, keep it up, and you'll have modeling the seventies. (That's when I started rail fanning in earnest.) Anybody make n scale eight tracks and leisure suits?

Frank

[tom mann]

I would like to see how that Rock car aged.

[sizemore]

Hellllloooooooooo!

"Built for Trailer Train by ACF between 1966-68, the visually unique “F89-J” 89’ Flat Cars were produced  for TOFC service and was the only standard-height, bowl deck car of this design by ACF."

And Pre-Ordered.

Thank you for that tidbit of information. To quote Hannibal Smith:

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

The S.

[asarge]

Craig, C&O For Progress Please! Man they are sharp cars!

[bbussey]

I would like to see how that Rock car aged.

Why does that sound as if it's a harbinger of things to come? 

Aged photos will have to be unearthed though, as the proto photo on both the BLMA and Tagent sites show a relatively fresh car.

[tom mann]

I would like to see how that Rock car aged.

Why does that sound as if it's a harbinger of things to come? 

Aged photos will have to be unearthed though, as the proto photo on both the BLMA and Tagent sites show a relatively fresh car.

If a photo doesn't turn up, I'll base it off of other hopper photos that I've seen.

[FrankCampagna]

I would like to see how that Rock car aged.

The three bay aged version

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~diggle01/hoppers/rock/rkhp02.jpeg

Two bays shouldn't be much different.

Frank

[Denver Road Doug]

LOVE the plain-jane BN version!  Definitely in for one or two of those and maybe one of the logo'ed versions.  As nice as these cars are, they were entering their last days in my era so I can't overload on them, as much as I'd like to.  Intermodal...different story.  Well, except the brown ones.  LOL   

There's actually a discussion on one of the Yahoo groups about these cars and why BN would paint a "non-cement" hopper gray versus green.  In the case of the 4000's they did both, but generally it was stated that gray signified "non-food" items, not necessarily cement only.  The two primary alternative loads mentioned were sand and bentonite that these cars hauled for BN.

[Robbman]

Hellllloooooooooo!

"Built for Trailer Train by ACF between 1966-68, the visually unique “F89-J” 89’ Flat Cars were produced  for TOFC service and was the only standard-height, bowl deck car of this design by ACF."

And Pre-Ordered.

Thank you for that tidbit of information. To quote Hannibal Smith:

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

The S.

That tidbit of info was also in the first run...

[wcfn100]

So what are the build dates of the 89js?  From previous posts,  I think we can determine it was between Jan '67 and Oct '67.  Is that right?



Jason