Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis had 325 of these USRA 2-bay hoppers. NC&St.L ran from Memphis east to Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta. For a time, they had a route to St. Louis by way of Evansville but in 1879, L&N bought a 55% stake in the NC&St.L and transferred that line to themselves. The NC&St.L finally merged into L&N in 1957.

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
• Coal Load
• Lever-Style Hand Brake
• Cody Mounted Magnetically Operating Knuckle Couplers
• Close Coupling
• Metal Wheels

These cars were ordered by USRA but not delivered to Chesapeake & Ohio until 10 months after the end of the war. The scattershot application of dimensional data was common during this period. The C.T. suffix to the road number is likely an equipment trust designation and was used on USRA hoppers of other railroads as well. These cars are coming in 6 road numbers.

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