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.)

One of Missouri Pacific’s several subsidiary lines, Missouri-Illinois Railroad (known affectionately by locals as the “Mike and Ike”) served a number of large coal mines in southern Illinois. The Illinois Coal Basin covers large tracts of southern Illinois and Indiana and western Kentucky and can generate close to 60 million tons annually. That would fill a whopping 2,300 seventy ton hoppers every day! Most of the coal originated on the M-I was delivered to connecting lines for heavy industry across the midwest and far west. This roadname will be available in 6 road numbers.