Offset side 70 ton 3-bay hoppers first appeared in the late 1920s but by the late 30s they had evolved into the AAR standard design seen here. They were built in large quantities by many builders until the mid-1960s. Many remained in service into the 1990s.

   Atlantic Coast Line - post 1958. In 1955, ACL changed their logo to emphasize their nickname, “Coast Line” by increasing the size to 12” and reducing “Atlantic” to 4”. Three years later in 1958 they stopped applying the Prismo Stripes (which you may remember from our first ACL run of hoppers.) This paint scheme was the result and it would persist as the standard for hoppers for a number of years. The 5,700+ mile Atlantic Coast Line gained a reputation as “the standard railroad of the South”, serving Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. During the period these cars were in service, the total ACL freight car fleet exceeded 31,000 cars. ACL would merge with Seaboard Air Line to form Seaboard Coast Line in 1967. 

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.)

Reserve Before February 25,2011 

 Delivery Expected June 2011