Tangent Scale Models is pleased to introduce the Pullman-Standard PS-1 9′ Door Box Car in HO scale! This is not just a single box car model, but instead a system of 3 different brand new carbodies to cover the 9′ door PS-1s as built by Pullman-Standard from 1950 through 1962.

Aug 29, 2024 · From this point on the boxcar only grew in size whereby at the end of the 19th century it was capable of 40-50 tons and expanded from 36-feet in length to the standard 40-foot car of the 20th century, which remained in widespread use well after World War II.

Jul 9, 2010 · Ed Hawkins and Ted Culotta compiled a list of all the PS-1’s built. The complete list of Pullman PS-1 boxcars can be found on the Steam Era Freight Car Website. Below is a modified version of their information sorted by the build-date of the cars built before my modeling period, the Summer of 1952.

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Pullman-Standard’s PS-1 box car line evolved to feature a variety of door combinations to satisfy customer requests for 40-foot “purpose-built” box cars. In the late 1950s, the first “combination door” PS-1s were built to a new design: one plug door was flush with the car side, and the other door was a traditional sliding door.

40’ single-door boxcars Though longer boxcars were developed early in the last century, the forty-foot car remained the mainstay of the railroad industry well into the fifties. Starting with the ARA 1924 designs of the twenties, boxcars gradually grew in height and capacity, culminating in cars with an inside height of 10’6”, such as ...

The Tangent Scale Models HO scale PS-1 “Mini-Hy Cube” Boxcar replica features a prototypical “slight peak” roof, separate underframe brake components with wire piping, narrow ladders and sill steps, and “see-through” crossover platforms.

PS-1 40' Box cars. This page is dedicated to listing 40' box cars identified as built by Pullman Standard to the PS-1 proprietery design. The data is from a variety of sources including a table posted on the Steam Era Freight Cars page by Ed Hawkins, Eric Neubauer's PS Freight Car Production e-book and my personal files. PS-1 Box Cars:

N MASTER 40' PS-1 BOX CAR. The 40' Boxcar is widely known as one of the most popular freight cars used by railroads as they transitioned from steam to diesel. In particular the Pullman Standard or PS-1 design was one of the most popular and was widely used by …

PS-1 Combination Door 40-foot Boxcar. A reoccurring feature in Diesel Era, “Freight Car Classics” is included in the Second Quarter 2021 edition. You’ll see three examples of Pullman-Standard’s (PS) 40-foot boxcar from three different railroads: The …