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Beginning in the late 50s, wood chips went from something to be disposed of to a valuable commodity. Since wood chips are less dense than coal, gravel and other hopper loads, many railroads added high extensions to standard hoppers for this service. The extentions were simple affairs, either rib sided or flat sided that were welded to the top chords of standard hoppers.

Like our coal hoppers, these N scale models will come ready-to-run with knuckle couplers, and loads. First draft artwork is show here and is subject to improvement by our crack research staff!
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Part #: BS-16051 - Chattahoochee Industrial single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Chattahoochee Industrial Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions.  The CIRR was built in the early 60s to serve a new Georgia Pacific paper mill is southern Georgia.  Traffic was so heavy that it took 10 diesels to serve this 15 mile shortline!  Today, CIRR is one of the G&W family of shortlines.
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Part #: BS-16052 - Chattahoochee Industrial 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-16061 - Seaboard Air Line single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Seaboard Air Line Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions.  Like their neighbors Southern and Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard linked the Southeastern U.S. with the rail gateway of Richmond, Virginia.  Seaboard had long been considered the weakest of the three but after WWII, they steadily gained strength.  In fact, they were one of a handful of railroads to own more freight cars in the 1960s (about 29,000) than they did in the 1920s despite the huge gains made in car utilization.
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Part #: BS-16062 - Seaboard Air Line 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-16063 - Seaboard Air Line 3-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-16071 - Gulf & Mississippi single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Gulf & Mississippi Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions.  In 1985, Gulf & Mississippi became the first major spin-off of Illinios Central Gulf.  The line had 700 miles of track in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama.  This group of wood chip hoppers were not ex-ICG however.  These cars were ex-Kansas City Southern (the white paint gives them away) that were patched with new GMSR reporting marks.  A few years after start-up, Gulf & Mississippi became a subsidiary of MidSouth (itself an ICG spin-off.)  In 1994, MidSouth merged with Kansas City Southern.
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Part #: BS-16072 - Gulf & Mississippi 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-16081 - Frisco single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Frisco Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions.  Frisco was a 5,700 mile system radiating from their hub in Sprinfield, Missouri, linking Kansas City and Dallas in the west with St. Louis, Memphis and Birmingham in the east.  Although Frisco was a long time strategic ally of Santa Fe, it was Burlington Northern they would merge with in 1980.
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Part #: BS-16082 - Frisco 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Flat Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-17031 - Ashley Drew & Northern single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Ashley Drew & Northern Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions.  Opening in 1913, the Ashley Drew & Northern was one of the grand old guard of American shortlines.  The Arkansas based line was built to serve the timber industry and in 1963 became a subsidiary of timber giant Georgia Pacific.  AD&N picked up this modest fleet of wood chip hoppers second hand from Missouri Pacific.
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Part #: BS-17032 - Ashley Drew & Northern 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-17041 - CP Rail single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

CP Rail Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions.   In the 1970s, CP Rail converted a number of older coal hoppers for use in hauling wood chips and renumbered them into the 356000 series.
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Part #: BS-17042 - CP Rail 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-17043 - CP Rail 3-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-17051 - Missouri Pacific single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Missouri Pacific Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions.   Missouri Pacific began converting standard hoppers into wood chip cars in the 1960s.  MP blanketed much of the Ozark region, a principle source of chips and pulpwood for America’s paper industry.
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Part #: BS-17052 - Missouri Pacific 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE
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Part #: BS-17061 - Illinois Central single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Illinois Central Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions.   Illinois Central adopted this image in 1967.  The “split rail” logo formed the letter I with the left half of the rail (including the dot) while the right half of the rail formed the letter C.  After the merger with GM&O, the split was closed up and the dot moved over the center.
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Part #: BS-17062 - Illinois Central 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE Click
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Part #: BS-17071 - Soo Line single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Soo Line Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions  Soo Line adopted this lettering style in 1951 although at the time, Soo Line was just their nick-name.  Their full name was Minneapolis St Paul & Sault Sainte Marie.  In 1960, they merged with Wisconsin Central (already a Soo subsidiary) and Duluth South Shore & Atlantic to form Soo Line Railroad - a nick-name no more.
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Part #: BS-17072 - Soo Line 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE Click
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Part #: BS-17081 - Grand Trunk Western single car - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE

Grand Trunk Western Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions.  GTW adopted their version of the “noodle” logo in 1962, two years after parent Canadian National adopted their version.  A few years later, a portion of GTW’s hopper fleet was rebuilt for chip service.
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Part #: BS-17082 - Grand Trunk Western 2-pack - Road # TBA - Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper - Rib Side Extensions - NEW BODY STYLE Click
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Part #: BS-16011 - Boston & Maine - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Boston & Maine Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions. In 1964 Boston & Maine purchased a modest fleet of used hoppers, added flat steel extensions and assigned them to wood chip loading in Woodsville, New Hampshire. As the New England region’s largest railroad, Boston & Maine relied heavily on traffic for the paper industry.
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Part #: BS-16013 - Boston & Maine - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-16021 - Canadian National - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Canadian National Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions. Canadian National also modified standard offset side hoppers for wood chip service in the mid-60s however, their extensions were made largely of plywood with steel reinforcing around the edges. Despite that, the cars were relativly long lived due in large part to the fact that wood chips are far less abrasive than other types of hopper loads.
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Part #: BS-16023 - Canadian National - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-16031 - Kansas City Southern - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Kansas City Southern Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions. In 1967, Kansas City Southern rebuilt 300 hopper cars for wood chip service. KCS serves the densely forested Ozark Mountains along its mainline from Kansas City to the Gulf Coast.
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Part #: BS-16000 - Undecorated Offset Side - Flat Side Extensions - Wood Chip Hopper
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Part #: BS-17011 - Milwaukee Road - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Milwaukee Road Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions. In the Summer of 1962, Milwaukee Road’s Milwaukee Shops converted a group of elderly (1928) offset side hoppers for wood chip service with the addition of ribbed extensions. MILW served paper mills in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Washington. These cars were also likely used on occasion for scrap tinplate service.
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Part #: BS-17013 - Milwaukee Road - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-17021 - Chicago & North Western - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Chicago & North Western Offset Side Wood Chip Hopper with Rib Side Extensions. In 1964, Chicago & North Western converted a small portion of their coal hopper fleet with the addition of ribbed extentions, not for wood chips but for scrap tinplate service. This group was assigned for loading in Butler, Wisconsin.
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Part #: BS-17033 - Chicago & North Western - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-17000 - Undecorated Offset Side - Rib Side Extensions - Wood Chip Hopper
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Part #: BS-18012 - Georgia Railroad - 2-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-18021 - Seaboard System - single car - Road #: TBA - Wood Chip Hopper
Seaboard System Rib Side Wood Chip Hopper with Flat Side Extensions. The 1983 merger of Seaboard Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville, Georgia Railroad, Clinchfield, Atlanta & West Point and Western Railway of Alabama into Seaboard System led these former Georgia cars to be renumbered with SBD marks. Nearly all other lettering had also been changed in the 13 years since delivery.
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Part #: BS-18023 - Seaboard System - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-18000 Undecorated Rib Side - Flat Side Extensions - Wood Chip Hopper
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Part #: BS-19012 - Norfolk Southern - 2-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-19022 - Louisville & Nashville - 2-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-19023 - Louisville & Nashville - 3-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Part #: BS-19032 - Gulf Mobile & Ohio - 2-Pack - Road #'s: TBA - Wood Chip Hoppers
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Inventory is a fluid commodity.  It changes by the hour (sometimes by the minute). To retain our pricing structure we maintain stock levels designed to turnover 6 times each year. We cannot guarantee stock status till we have an order in hand. All product is subject to prior sale. If we confirm that we have it, and, while we are waiting for the order it sells, you would be upset that we did not hold it.
We used to hold items but learned a VERY EXPENSIVE lesson. When we held items for customers’ orders, the order never materialized 80%+ of the time.  We lost out on the orders placed while the item was on hold.  Also we wasted staff time that could have been used to pull actual orders.
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.
You may, however, call in and we will tell you if the items are available and if possible attempt to locate what we don’t have while you are on the phone.

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