A Limited Edition HO-Scale ScaleTrains BSC Finger Rack Flatcar painted for freelance model railroad Yankeetown Dock Corporation!
The Modern Yankeetown Dock Corporation ScaleTrains BSC Finger Rack Flatcar is an exciting proto-freelance car that has roots in the prototype world. The Yankeetown Dock Corporation (YDC) was a coal hauling railroad in Southern Indiana that operated from the 1960's to the 2000's. In the proto-freelance world the modern YDC has evolved to include an expanded customer base and route miles.
With their expanding customer base, the modern YDC gained several valuable customers in southern Indiana. One such customer, a steelmaker located north of Rockport, Indiana near the Ohio River requires the appropriate cars for their customer base. YDC therefore purchased a fleet of finger rack flat cars in order to satisfy these demands in order to ship steel products across North America.
A striking white body and the modernized Yankeetown Dock Corporation lettering adorn this car along with the conspicuity stripes, making it the most modern offering of our finger rack flatcar release!
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About the Prototype:
Introduced in 1969, the Bethlehem Steel Co. (BSC) F68-series of 100-ton, 68-foot long (over end sills) flats represented a new generation of high-capacity flats. Extremely versatile, the basic design could be equipped from the factory with various appliances to handle different loadings. At the end of 1969, BSC introduced the “F68BH” class of cars for trailer trains. The Rivet Counter™ HO Scale model is accurately rendered from builder drawings and photos, featuring road number-specific details like steel decks, transverse deck risers, MacLean-Fogg transverse tie-down apparatus, distinctive upright “finger racks” near each end, a complete underbody brake system with over 18 separately applied parts including the air reservoir, control valve, reduction relay valve and retainer valve, plus wire form plumbing and trainline piping.
The ScaleTrains BSC Finger Rack Flatcar features:
- Fully-assembled
- Multiple road numbers
- Factory-applied finger rack details
- MacLean-Fogg tie-down details on decks
- Decks with transverse risers
- Early H-shaped jacking pads
- Vertical handbrake staff and housing with finely detailed wheel
- 36” machined metal wheels
- Complete underbody brake system including air reservoir, control valve, reduction relay valve, and retainer valve plus wireform plumbing and trainline pipe
- Durable die-cast metal semi-scale long-shank Type E couplers
- Highly-detailed 100-ton trucks with hydraulic snubber and bracket details, rotating Timken three-sided bearing caps, separate truck-mounted brake beams, and side bearing detail