The AAR had a standard 70 ton rib side hopper, 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...

 Legendary Michigan regional Detroit & Mackinac expanded their hopper fleet with these cars acquired from Penn Central. Stone quarries were an important source of traffic for the DM and these hoppers were used to serve them. These models will include stone loads instead of the usual coal load. At 350 miles, the DM had more route miles than many other notable regionals including Ann Arbor, Clinchfield, Green Bay & Western, and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. This roadname will be available in 3 road numbers

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 March 31,2011 

Delivery Expected July 2011