This familiar hopper was an industry standard on many railroads since the 1930s. It was adopted by the AAR as a recommended design, but fell out of favor by the mid-1950s. While offering greater capacity over cars with conventional flat sides, the original open hoppers created corrosive interaction between acidic coal and the car’s joints, leading to costly rebuilding programs.

Features:

• Separately-applied coal load, brake wheel and brakewheel platform
•  Either flat end or arched end as appropriate for railroad
•  Accurate painting and lettering
•  Metal couplers and sprung die-cast trucks
• True scale dimensions with accurate details
• Weighted, detailed underframes
• 2-rail cars feature scale wheels and body mounted scale couplers
• 3-rail trucks pre-drilled for Atlas O Adjust-A-Couplers®

Two road numbers are available for each road name, except for Chesapeake & Ohio and Peabody which each have four.