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

Philadelphia & Reading acquired 2,000 of these hoppers after the war under the USRA (note the C.T. suffix to the road number also seen on the C&O cars.) The P&R was the railroad subsidiary of the Reading Company. But, when the Reading Company was re-organized, it became a common carrier and there was no longer a need for a separate P&R subsidiary and the fleet was folded into the RDG. These P&R cars are available in 4 different road numbers.

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