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Bluford Shops - N Scale - Offset Side 70 Ton 3-Bay Hopper - Canadian National (CN) (2 Pack) (SKU 188-73162)

Available On: October 1, 2010

 

 

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.)

 

Canadian National had a whopping 4,655 offset side 3-bay hoppers making them one of the most common cars on CN. They were built in several batches between 1949 and 1958. Eastern Car Company, National Steel, and Canadian Car & Foundry all built cars to this same design for CN. Beginning in 1961, cars were repainted with the newly adopted “noodle” logo as they went in for servicing. The Canadian National of this period operated over 22,000 miles of line. That’s more than the Santa Fe and Pennsylvania Railroad combined! This roadname is coming in 6 road numbers







$43.58 US