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70 Ton 3-Bay Hoppers in Offset-Side Body Style

These ready-to-run cars will feature:

  • Diecast slope sheet-hopper bay-center sill assembly;
  • Injection molded plastic sides, ends, and hopper doors;
  • Fully molded brake tank, valve and air lines;
  • Slope sheet braces;
  • Separately molded vertical brake rod and lever assembly (a first on an N scale open hopper!);
  • Body mounted brake hose detail;
  • Coal load;
  • Body mounted magnetically operating couplers;
  • Close coupling;
  • Friction bearing or roller bearing trucks as appropriate for each road name.

All road names will be available in multiple road numbers.
Hopper Overview
Offset Side Version
  1. The Offset Side car features the corner pleating design most commonly seen on the prototype.
  2. Accumate couplers are factory installed but you can drop in MTL #1015’s without modifications.
  3. Fully dimensional brake cylinder lever, and brake rod assembly – a first on and N scale open hopper!
  4. The body mounted draft gear boxes with high reliability screw-shut lids were specifically designed for close coupling and resisting pop-aparts.
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70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper first appeared in the late '20s and by the late '30s had become an AAR standard design with cars being delivered from a number of builders in large quantities to railroads across the country. The last of these cars were delivered in the mid-'60s and many remained in service through the '80s

Each road name is available in multiple road numbers. For instance, the single will have a different road number than the cars in a 3-Pack. To obtain all available road numbers in a given paint scheme, order a single and one of each multi-pack. The multi-pack cars are in individual jewel cases that are shrink wrapped together and therefore can be broken up.

Item Description
May-2013 - Limited Edition

Part #: BS-73691 - Bessemer & Lake Erie (post-1973) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73692 - Bessemer & Lake Erie (post-1973) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73693 - Bessemer & Lake Erie (post-1973) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73701 - Alaska RR (post-1978) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73702 - Alaska RR (post-1978) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73703 - Alaska RR (post-1978) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73711 - Boston & Albany - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73712 - Boston & Albany - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  

Part #: BS-73721 - Detroit Toledo & Ironton - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73722 - Detroit Toledo & Ironton - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  

Part #: BS-73731 - Louisiana & Arkansas - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73732 - Louisiana & Arkansas - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  

Part #: BS-73741 - Big Red Line OL&B - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73742 - Big Red Line OL&B - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  

Part #: BS-73751 - Central of Georgia-black - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73752 - Central of Georgia-black - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73753 - Central of Georgia-black - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73761 - Boston & Maine-med logo - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - single

 
Part #: BS-73762 - Boston & Maine-med logo - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73763 - Boston & Maine-med logo - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 3-pack  
Part #: BS-73771 - Data Only - Black - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack
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Part #: BS-73781 - Data Only - Brown - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load - 2-pack
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May-2013 - Limited Edition

Part #: BS-73683 - Peabody Coal Company 3-pack (Yellow with black underbody Green, red and black lettering) - Road #’s:  TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - w/Load 3-Pack - Limited Edition

Some information provided: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
September-2012 - Sixteenth Release

Part #: BS-73591 - Nickel Plate Road (yellow triangle) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Nickel Plate Road (yellow triangle) offset side hoppers - In the summer of 1964, Nickel Plate took delivery of 500 new offset side 3-bay hoppers from Bethlehem. The second half of the order was delivered with roller bearing trucks (as are these models.) A yellow triangle was painted next to the reporting marks on all 500 cars meaning these cars were intended for unit train service. This assignment was short-lived however because that October, the Nickel Plate merged with the Norfolk & Western and this fleet was absorbed into N&W’s massive fleet of assorted 70 ton hoppers. You may notice there is more small lettering on these NKP hoppers compared to our earlier Nickel Plate run (based on cars inherited from W&LE in 1949, released by Bluford Shops in April of 2011.) This is a factor of the cars being built in the 1960s when stenciling all manner of instructions on new cars became commonplace. The last few of these cars, still wearing Nickel Plate paint (!) were retired in 1998, 34 years after the merger.

 
Part #: BS-73592 - Nickel Plate Road (yellow triangle) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  
Part #: BS-73593 - Nickel Plate Road (yellow triangle) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 3-Pack  

Part #: BS-73601 - Monon (CI&L) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Monon (CI&L) offset side hoppers - The Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville was better known as the Monon. The CI&L formed an X over the state of Indiana with Chicago and Indianapolis for one leg and Michigan City and Louisville forming the other leg. The two lines crossed in the small city of Monon - thus the nickname. The route from Chicago through Monon to Louisville saw the lion’s share of the traffic by serving as an important bridge for railroads of the South to reach Chicago. In addition to large amounts of coal received from their connections, CI&L also served large mines on their own line in Southern Indiana. This group of hoppers is presented in their “as delivered” paint scheme with C.I.L. reporting marks and small MONON in the center. In 1956, CI&L changed their proper name to Monon Railroad and the C&IL reporting marks were gradually replaced with MON reporting marks (and larger MONON lettering as presented on our previous Monon run released in January of 2011. See the “Past Releases” section of our web site for details.) In 1967, the Monon was seriously outflanked when their most important connection in Louisville, the L&N, divided up the Chicago & Eastern Illinois with the MoPac. This allowed L&N to bypass the Monon to Chicago. Monon then suggested a merger with Southern but Southern preferred to hand over traffic at Cincinnati rather than Louisville. Ironically, L&N suggested a merger. They considered Monon a back up route anyway and they coveted Monon’s shares of terminal roads in Chicago and Louisville. The deal was closed in 1971 and Monon became a fallen flag.

 
Part #: BS-73602 - Monon (CI&L) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  
Part #: BS-73603 - Monon (CI&L) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 3-Pack  

Part #: BS-73611 - American Steel & Wire - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

American Steel & Wire offset side hoppers - American Steel & Wire received a modest fleet of hoppers from Greenville in January of 1948. It is likely that these cars were used to haul coke to feed ASW’s blast furnaces. In this context, coke is coal that has been baked in the absence of oxygen, a process that drives out the impurities that would contaminate the steel. One peculiar element of this car is that American Steel & Wire’s reporting marks of ASWX are not used above the road number on the sides although they do appear on the car’s ends. However, there were similar small groups of hoppers for other Greenville customers in the 1947-1949 period that were similarly lettered.

 
Part #: BS-73612 - American Steel & Wire - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73621 - Cities Service Oil - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Cities Service Oil offset side hoppers - Cities Service leased this group of cars from United States Railway Equipment in 1972. USRE had bought them used and had them rebuilt by Evans that same year. Why would an oil company want hopper cars? Because coke can also be made from petroleum. After the most valuable products are separated from the crude oil in the cracking process, the sludge that remains is made into coke with very little going to waste. Petroleum coke is a solid and at arm’s length, looks just like coke made from coal. In addition to burning it in blast furnaces, coke is also used to make anodes, pigments, filters and many other products requiring carbon.

 
Part #: BS-73622 - Cities Service Oil - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73631 - Duluth South Shore & Atlantic - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Duluth South Shore & Atlantic offset side hoppers - The DSS&A ran from Duluth and Superior east down the length of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the Canadian gateway of Sault Ste. Marie. In 1955, DSS&A purchased this group of secondhand hoppers from the Lackawanna. The cars were repainted and pressed into service hauling gravel. The DSS&A had been under stock control of Canadian Pacific since the 19th Century. In 1961, the DSS&A was merged with the Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (the original Soo Line) and their longtime subsidiary Wisconsin Central (both also controlled by Canadian Pacific.) The new combined company became Soo Line Railroad although the new company was actually formed around DSS&A’s corporate charter. These cars then mixed into the greater Soo hopper fleet.

 
Part #: BS-73632 - Duluth South Shore & Atlantic - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73641 - Elgin Joliet & Eastern - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Elgin Joliet & Eastern offset side hoppers - As the 1960s drew to a close, Elgin Joliet & Eastern began receiving second hand hoppers from sister road Bessemer & Lake Erie (both lines were owned by U.S. Steel.) The EJ&E fleet of offset side hoppers would ultimately exceed 350 cars. The EJ&E formed an arc around the city of Chicago with a radius of about 35 miles from downtown. Therefore, every railroad entering the city crossed the EJ&E. While this led to a fair amount of interline transfer traffic for the line, EJ&E’s real bread and butter was serving parent U.S. Steel’s mammoth Gary Works.  Largely because of this customer, EJ&E routinely rostered over 10,000 freight cars and 100 locomotives. Not bad for a line just 231 miles long! These hoppers are equipped with ACI tags and early format consolidated stencils.

 
Part #: BS-73642 - Elgin Joliet & Eastern - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73651 - Hallett - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car w/ Limestone Load

Hallet offset side hoppers - Hallett Materials provides sand, gravel and similar materials for the construction industry. In the mid-60s, they began to acquire their own fleet of 70 ton 3-bay hoppers primarily for moving limestone although they were also seen hauling coal from time to time. Some were even equipped with roofs for moving bentonite clay. The dark green paint really set these hoppers apart.

 
Part #: BS-73652 - Hallett - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack w/ Limestone Loads  

Part #: BS-73661 - Wheeling & Lake Erie - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Wheeling & Lake Erie offset side hoppers - This is the original Wheeling & Lake Erie, a 500 mile Class 1 railroad serving Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. The W&LE linked Wheeling and Zanesville with Cleveland and Toledo. Coal was king on the W&LE and the majority of their 13,000 car fleet was made up of hoppers. They were a common sight throughout the Industrial Midwest. This group of hoppers delivered in 1948 was split between two builders. 1,000 cars came from Greenville Steel Car and 2,000 cars came from Ralston. Outwardly, they were identical. Late in 1949, the W&LE was leased by the Nickel Plate Road (who already owned 80% of the stock,) sending these “WLE” lettered cars even further afield.

 
Part #: BS-73662 - Wheeling & Lake Erie - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73671 - Bangor & Aroostook (1950s) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - Single Car

Bangor & Aroostook (1950s) offset side hoppers - The Bangor & Aroostook was a 500 mile Class 1 railroad serving Northeastern Maine. Famous for their State of Maine potato trains, the big income came from moving freight for the paper industry. Inbound came pulpwood, chips and chemicals, outbound went giant rolls of paper. While today, big industry supplies their power needs by plugging into the local utility grid, back “in the day” it was more common for industries (even relatively small ones) to have their own coal fired boilers for power and heat. This was certainly the case for paper mills. BAR purchased their hoppers to fill this need although later in their lives they could also be found hauling gravel or even sugar beets.

 
Part #: BS-73672 - Bangor & Aroostook (1950s) - 70Ton Offset Side Hopper - 2-Pack  
October-2011 - Fifteenth Release

Part #: BS-73531- Chicago & Illinois Western (CIW) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Chicago & Illinois Western was a shortline with 33 miles of track serving a number of large industries in Harvester, Hawthorne, and Gary in the greater Chicago area.  Illinois Central took stock control of the C&IW in 1924 but the shortline remained a separate operation with their own locomotives and freight cars.  IC influence can be seen in the C&IW’s lettering style which is very similar to IC’s pre-1967 practices.  Speaking of which, the wonky spacing in the lettering is prototypical for these cars.  It looks as if they had all the stencils for “Chicago,” “Illinois,” and “Western” spaced perfectly and then realized they left out the “&.” 

 
Part #: BS-73532- Chicago & Illinois Western (CIW) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-Pack  

Part #: BS-73541 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) [post-1962 scheme] - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Grand Trunk Western received 500 of these hoppers from American Car & Foundry in 1952.  While parent CN introduced their “noodle” logo in 1960, the GTW version appeared in 1962 and was applied to the now decade old hoppers as they were shopped.  GTW moved coal from connecting roads to power Michigan’s voracious auto industry, and also loaded significant quantities of gravel (for use in construction across the Industrial Midwest) on their Saginaw Subdivision.  This run comes with “coal” loads.  The loads can be easily painted if you prefer to model cars in gravel service.

 
Part #: BS-73542 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) [post-1962 scheme] - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-Pack  
Part #: BS-73543 Grand Trunk Western (GTW) [post-1962 scheme] - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-Pack  

Part #: BS-73551 - Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single 

Illinois Central was quite a fan of 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper and continued to build them into the late ‘60s. In 1972, IC merged with the largely parallel Gulf Mobile & Ohio creating Illinois Central Gulf.  The combined railroad was immense with 9,500 route miles (about 60 more than Union Pacific during the same period.)  As the old IC hoppers were shopped during the ‘70s, they emerged in this scheme complete with then standard ACI bar codes and con-stencils.

 
Part #: BS-73552 - Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-Pack  
Part #: BS-73553 - Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-Pack  

Part #: BS-73561 - Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific (MILW) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Prior to 1953 the railroad popularly known as Milwaukee Road used their full name “Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific” inside their familiar tilted rectangle logo.  Milwaukee Road became a major originator of coal traffic in 1921 with the acquisition of the Chicago Terre Haute Southeastern.  This extended Milwaukee’s reach into the coal mining regions of Southern Indiana.  In addition, MILW served mines in Iowa, Illinois, Montana and even Washington. 

 
Part #: BS-73562 - Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific (MILW) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-Pack  
Part #: BS-73563 - Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific (MILW) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-Pack  

Part #: BS-73571 - Pere Marquette (PM) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

First of all for those not familiar with this line, it’s PERE (pronounced like Pair, not Pierre as in South Dakota.  Pere is French for “Father.”)  Pere Marquette connected much of Michigan with Chicago, Toledo, and (via Southern Ontario) Buffalo, New York.  They also interchanged with Wisconsin roads via car ferries across Lake Michigan.  Sporting around 2,000 route miles, Pere Marquette was between Rio Grande and Nickel Plate Road in relative size.  In 1927, PM received 250 of these 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper.  In 1947, Pere Marquette was merged into Chesapeake & Ohio.  However, due in part to its location and in part to the nature of equipment assignments during this era, there was little visible evidence that C&O had taken over for more than a decade!

 
Part #: BS-73572 - Pere Marquette (PM) - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-Pack  
May-2011 - Fourteenth Release

Part #: BS-73491 Soo Line - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Until 1960, Soo Line was the nickname of the Minneapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad.  “Soo” came from the phonetic pronunciation of Sault. Soo connected a dense network of branches in North Dakota and Minnesota to connections with Canadian Pacific at Portal on the North Dakota border and Sault Ste. Marie near the tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  Soo had been controlled by CP since early in the 20th century.  For many years, Soo had embraced their nickname with Soo Line reporting marks and the square “dollar sign ” logo on freight cars. In 1951, they adopted this billboard style of lettering for freight cars.  In 1960, parent Canadian Pacific consolidated their U.S. lines including MStP&SSteM, subsidiary Wisconsin Central (which gave the old Soo their route to Chicago) and the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic.  The combined railroad (which used DSS&A’s charter) was renamed Soo Line Railroad.  These cars will have gravel loads instead of the usual coal loads reflecting their most common use on the Soo Line

 
Part #: BS-73492 Soo Line - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73493 Soo Line - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73501 Southern (SOU) [post-1960 scheme] -Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Southern post-1960 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper. Southern acquired these hoppers new in 1952. Beginning in 1960, the Southern fleet began to receive this style of large block lettering. Another major change was shifting from black paint on open top cars to mineral red. Often in coal service, these cars were also used for coke, sand, gravel, and unprocessed clay, particularly later in life. These hoppers will be coming with black coal/coke loads.

 
Part #: BS-73502 Southern (SOU) [post-1960 scheme] - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73503 Southern (SOU) [post-1960 scheme] - Road #’s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73511 Rock Island [Route of the Rockets scheme] - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

In the years following the Second World War, Rock Island finally emerged from a long reorganization and began buying new equipment.  500 70-ton offset side hoppers arrived in this paint scheme from American Car & Foundry in 1949.  Rock Island was unusual in that it completely straddled the imaginary line running from St. Louis through Kansas City to Denver.  This line divides railroads of the Northern Plaines such as Milwaukee Road, CB&Q, C&NW and others, and railroads of the Southern Plaines such as Frisco, M-K-T, MoPac and Santa Fe.  While some roads in one of these regions had tendrils into the other region (such as Santa Fe ’s line to Chicago) the vast majority of their mileage remained on one side of the line.  Rock Island was split more or less evenly over this border with extremities linking Minneapolis and Sioux Falls to the north, Denver and Tucumcari to the west, Dallas and southern Louisiana to the south, and connections with the Eastern trunk lines in Memphis, St. Louis, Peoria, and Chicago.

 
Part #: BS-73512 Rock Island [Route of the Rockets scheme] - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73513 Rock Island [Route of the Rockets scheme] - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack  

Part #: BS-73521 Central of New Jersey - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

Central Railroad of New Jersey picked up a good size fleet of these 70 ton hoppers used from B&O and P&LE.  The cars in this run came from the B&O.  They were pressed into service hauling sand and gravel.  These hoppers will be coming with gravel loads.

 
Part #: BS-73522 Central of New Jersey - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
April-2011 - Thirteenth Release
Part #: BS-73001 Undecorated - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper  
Part #: BS-73441 Canadian National (CN) [pre-1958 scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Canadian National (CN) had 4,655 hoppers of this design delivered between 1949 and 1958. All but the last batches were delivered in this scheme with the standard 9” block lettering. The cars were built by Eastern Car Company, National Steel, and Canadian Car & Foundry.
 
Part #: BS-73442 Canadian National [pre-1958 scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73443 Canadian National [pre-1958 scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack  
Part #: BS-73446 Canadian National [pre-1958 scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 6-pack

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Part #: BS-73451 Santa Fe (ATSF) [1950s scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Santa Fe (ATSF) had been collecting 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper since the 1930s and ultimately established a fleet of several thousand cars. Cars delivered in the 1950s received this paint scheme with “ATSF” reporting marks (no periods and no ampersand.) Santa Fe generated coal loads in New Mexico as well as in smaller pockets in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. They also used these hoppers for gravel, flux stone and metallic ores.
 
Part #: BS-73452 Santa Fe (ATSF) [1950s scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73453 Santa Fe (ATSF) [1950s scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack  
Part #: BS-73456 Santa Fe (ATSF) [1950s scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 6-pack

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Part #: BS-73461 United States Army (USAX) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single

This group of hoppers was built in 1965 by and for the Illinois Central.  What year they joined the United States Army (USAX) is in doubt, but we can say they received this combination of lettering in 1989 or shortly thereafter.  These cars are used to haul coal in small groups from mines to Army base power stations in through-coal and mixed manifest freights.

 
Part #: BS-73462 United States Army (USAX) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73471 Burlington (CB&Q) [Chinese red scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper  - Single
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Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) built thousands of these hoppers in their own Havelock Shops beginning in 1949.  Beginning in 1958, Burlington updated their image by shifting from boxcar red to Chinese red on their freight car fleet. The Q had considerable coal traffic for a “Granger” road. In addition, these cars were often found far from home rails moving coal and minerals to Southern New England, the South and Appalachia, in addition to “Everywhere West.”

 
Part #: BS-73472 Burlington (CB&Q) [Chinese red scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73473 Burlington (CB&Q) [Chinese red scheme] - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack

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Part #: BS-73481 Great Lakes Carbon (USEX) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
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Great Lakes Carbon leased 70 of these cars from US Railway Equipment in GLC produced calcined petroleum coke used in making furnace anodes for aluminum mills and producing titanium dioxide. Petroleum coke is a byproduct of oil refining and looks very much like coal.

 
Part #: BS-73482 Great Lakes Carbon (USEX) - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
December-2011 - Limited Edition

Part #: BS-73583 - Reading (Blue Coal Scheme, blue, white, Billboard Lettering) - Road #’s:  TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - w/Load 3-Pack - Limited Edition

 
Twelfth Announcement
Part #: BS-73401 Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) - post 1958 - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Atlantic Coast Line - post 1958. In 1955,ACL changed their logo to emphasize their nickname, “Coast Line” by increasing the size to 12” and reducing “Atlantic” to 4”. Three years later in 1958 they stopped applying the Prismo Stripes (which you may remember from our first ACL run of hoppers.) This paint scheme was the result and it would persist as the standard for hoppers for a number of years. The 5,700+ mile Atlantic Coast Line gained a reputation as “the standard railroad of the South”, serving Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. During the period these cars were in service, the total ACL freight car fleet exceeded 31,000 cars. ACL would merge with Seaboard Air Line to form Seaboard Coast Line in 1967.
 
Part #: BS-73402 Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73403 Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) - Post 1958 - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Part #: BS-73411 Canada Southern  (CASO) - Road #: - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Canada Southern (CASO) operated for most of its history as a subsidiary of the New York Central System. It ran from the Detroit area northeast along the Canadian side of Lake Erie to the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. Control of the line passed first to Penn Central and then Conrail. Conrail sold the CA-SO to CN and CP in 1985. These hoppers were assigned to ore loading on the CN in Dane, Ontario for customers in the United States. These cars will come with ore loads in place of the usual coal loads.
 
Part #: BS-73412 Canada Southern  (CASO) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73413 Canada Southern  (CASO) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Part #: BS-73421 Chicago & Illinois Midland (CIM) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
The Chicago & Illinois Midland was a busy, 121 mile coal hauler in the Peoria,  Springfield, and Taylorville areas of central Illinois. Coal loaded at on-line mines was moved to river docks at Havannah, Illinois or to connecting lines including Wabash, B&O, IC, GM&O, C&NW, RI, CB&Q, M&St.L, PRR, TP&W and Nickel Plate. This was a big time operation in a small package. Mile long freights pulled by handsome 2-10-2 ’s (with spiffy red stripes and diamond logos on the tenders) were the norm. Today this line is called the Illinois & Midland and is part of the Genessee & Wyoming family of shortlines.
 
Part #: BS-73422 Chicago & Illinois Midland (CIM) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73423 Chicago & Illinois Midland (CIM) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Part #: BS-73431 Norfolk & Western (N&W) - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Norfolk & Western experienced a major expansion in 1964 with the acquisition of the Nickel Plate Road, Wabash, and Pittsburgh & West Virginia (the NKP was merged and the other two leased.) Ironically, they didn’t have a direct connection with any of them! That required purchasing a line from Columbus to Sandusky, Ohio from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Nickel Plate had inherited coal rich lines from Wheeling & Lake Erie along with a sizeable fleet of these hoppers. As these cars came due for service after the merger in ‘64, they were repainted into this paint scheme and pressed into service across the system and via connections.
 
Part #: BS-73432 Norfolk & Western (N&W) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73433 Norfolk & Western (N&W) - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Eleventh Announcement
Part #: BS-73371 Chessie - B&O - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Chessie - B&O. Baltimore & Ohio had a huge fleet of these 70 ton offset side hoppers. They continued to receive these cars into the mid-60s so many were relatively young when the Chessie image, seen here, became the new standard.
 
Part #: BS-73372 Chessie - B&O - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73373 Chessie - B&O - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Part #: BS-73381 Chicago & North Western - “black” - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Chicago & North Western - black. As C&NW’s large fleet of 70 ton hoppers came up for repainting in the 1970s, they received this black scheme with the “Employee Owned” version of the logo, 2-box format con-stencils and ACI tags. C&NW and subsidiary Omaha Road ordered these cars new plus C&NW inherited many from M&St.L and CGW.
 
Part #: BS-73382 Chicago & North Western - “black”- Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
Part #: BS-73383 Chicago & North Western - “black”- Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 3-pack
 
Part #: BS-73391 Toledo Peoria & Western - Road #: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper - Single
Decked out in a jaunty Christmas green, these Toledo Peoria & Western hoppers were delivered in the late 1920s and remained in service well into the diesel era. The TP&W served as a bridge road for interchange traffic between Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania Railroad while avoiding the congested Chicago area. The TP&W linked Keokuk, IA (on the Mississippi River) to Effner on the Illinois - Indiana border, effectively bisecting the state of Illinois.
 
Part #: BS-73392 Toledo Peoria & Western - Road #s: TBA - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hoppers - 2-pack  
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Since we are well known for finding older stock the fact that it may not be on our shelves at this minute does not mean we can’t get it. So, as we spell out on our terms pages, we don’t do it anymore.
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