Athearn Genesis has announced new Trinity 3-Bay Covered Hoppers

PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:

Trinity Steel was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. The company didn’t enter into the railroad freight car market until 1984, when Trinity acquired the railcar designs and production facilities of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company, once the largest railcar manufacturer in North America. That same year Trinity also acquired the railcar designs of General American Transportation Corporation. In 1986 the rail car designs and production facilities of Greenville Steel Car Company were purchased, including the auto rack designs of Portec-Paragon. Also acquired in 1986 were the railcar designs of North American Car Corporation, and in 1987 Ortner Freight Car was acquired.

With this collective experience across several facilities, Trinity developed many new designs the became ubiquitous to present day railroading. One of their most famous designs is the 3-bay 5161cuft covered hopper. This covered hopper is optimized to transport agricultural products, sugar, dry chemicals, or other similar products and can be seen in unit train assignments all over North America. Introduced around 1995, these cars are extremely common today and owned by many Class 1 and Shortline Railroads alike.

MODEL FEATURES:

• Back as a Genesis model!

• New 3-packs feature unique road numbers alongside single cars; making long unit trains simple

• Two body styles represent 10 panel and 12 panel variations

• Separately applied end cages and etched end platforms

• Separate brake cylinder, valve and air reservoir with wire brake plumbing

• Air hose on each end

• Coupler cutbar

• Photo-etched metal roofwalk

• Weighted for trouble free operation

• Genesis 100-ton trucks with 36” machined metal wheels and animated spinning roller bearing caps

• Machined metal wheels

• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on all popular brands of track

• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers

• Standard size coupler draft gear box with screw mounted lid

• Fully assembled and ready for your layout

• Window packaging for easy viewing plus interior plastic blister safely holds the model for convenient storage

• Replacement parts available

• Minimum radius: 18”

PRIMED FOR GRIME MODELS FEATURE:

• Duplicated look and feel of “In Service” equipment; “Tattered and Torn” just like the real thing

• Faded base colors matched to the prototype

• Patches applied and shaped per road number matching each corresponding side to the prototype

• Perfect starting point for adding grime and rust

Order Due Date: May 31, 2019

Anticipated Delivery Date: May 2020