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.)

Those not familiar with Missouri Pacific may believe that it woudn’t be much of a “coal road.” That would be incorrect and MP rostered about 5,000 of these 70-ton hoppers as proof. MP served coal mines in Southern Illinois, Western Missouri (and adjoining states,) East Texas and Eastern Colorado. While many roads advertised their passenger fleets on their boxcars, MP was one of the few to do the same on open top cars like hoppers and gondolas. They began applying this scheme to new cars and repaints around 1949 and continued for the next decade. This road name will be available in 6 road numbers.