The Bluford Shops ready-to-run models will have the following features:

- Friction bearing or roller bearing trucks as appropriate for each road name,
- fully molded air tank and valve with piping, slope sheet braces,
- body mounted brake hose detail,
- separate brake cylinder, rod and lever detail (a first on an N scale open hopper!),
- body mounted magnetically operating couplers,
- coal load,
- diecast slope sheets and center sill,
- and injection molded plastic sides, ends and hopper doors.

All runs will be available in multiple road numbers (a single and one of each of the multi-packs gives you one of each road number available.)

OffThe AAR had a standard 70 ton rib side hopper as well, however New York Central made changes to the AAR design in 1956, and their variation became popular with more railroads than the original AAR standard! These cars were lower and shorter than later 90 and 100 ton cars but had more ribs (making for 14 full length panels.) Thirteen of the fifteen ribs were welded in place instead of riveted. These cars were built by a number of builders from 1956 through the late 60s with many serving through the 1990s and perhaps beyond... .

14-Panel 70 ton 3-bay hoppers in Western Railway of Alabama. WofA and sister roads Atlanta & West Point and Georgia Railroad formed a 550 mile system linking Augusta and Macon with Atlanta, Georgia and west to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama. All were jointly controlled by L&N and ACL/SCL and as such were part of The Family Lines in the 1970s. These cars were delivered in the mid-60s and were still in service when WofA was rolled into Seaboard System followed by CSX a few years later. This roadname will be available in 6 road numbers. 14031 Western of Alabama single; 14032 2-Pack; 14033 3-Pack.