Dear N Scale Customers:

Bluford Shops is happy to announce our second run of N scale 2-Bay Rebuilt War Emergency Hoppers. These ready-to-run cars feature: die cast slope sheet-hopper bay-center sill assembly; injection molded plastic sides, ends, and hopper doors; fully molded brake tank, valve and air lines; body mounted brake hose detail; load; body mounted magnetically operating knuckle couplers; close coupling; and Fox Valley Models metal wheels.

IMPORTANT: In the past, we have packaged hopper runs such as these as singles, 2-packs and 3-packs for a total of 6 road numbers. Beginning with this announcement we are doing away with the multi-packs and each of the 6 road numbers can now be ordered separately.

Nickel Plate Road’s composite hoppers were not War Emergency cars at all. NKP was one of a very few roads to order wood sided hoppers in the mid-1920s. They began replacing the slope sheets with steel in the 1930s and the first car rolled out of the shops with new steel sides in 1940 with the last of the converted cars completed 14 years later. The last one was retired in 1972. The paint scheme presented here was first applied in 1945.