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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 een 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 hoppers 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
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Tenth Announcement
Part #: BS-73341 Southern Pacific - T&NO - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Southern Pacific - T&NO. Southern Pacific received these cars from Bethlehem Steel in 1953 (in this paint scheme) and assigned them to subsidiary Texas & New Orleans. Combined with a group delivered 7 years earlier, the SP-T&NO fleet numbered 800 hoppers of this design.
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Part #: BS-73342 Southern Pacific - T&NO - Road #s: TBA – 2 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73343 Southern Pacific - T&NO - Road #s: TBA – 3 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73351 Canadian Pacific - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Beginning in 1968, Canadian Pacific ’s 3,500 car fleet of 70 ton offset side hoppers began appearing in this CP Rail paint scheme. As a rule, the multi-mark logo was painted toward the “B” end on each side resulting in a flipped location of the road numbers and dimensional data from one side to the other. This detail is being reproduced on this run. ACI bar codes were added at the same time and con-stencils followed shortly after. The CP Rail name would last for 28 years before the company changed the name back to "Canadian Pacific." The illustration to the right shows both sides of a single car.
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Part #: BS-73352 Canadian Pacific - Road #s: TBA – 2 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73353 Canadian Pacific - Road #: TBA – 3 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73361 Delaware Lackawanna & Western - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Delaware Lackawanna & Western began ordering sizable fleets of these 70 ton hoppers in the late 1920s. “The Road of Anthracite” logo had been added to most of the fleet by the transition era. The thousand mile Lackawanna system served New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and originated large volumes of coal, especially clean-burning anthracite. DL&W merged with Erie in 1960 to form Erie Lackawanna.
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Part #: BS-73362 Delaware Lackawanna & Western - Road #s: TBA – 2 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73363 Delaware Lackawanna & Western - Road #s: TBA – 3 Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Ninth Announcement
Part #: BS-73311 Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The first half of Baltimore & Ohio's massive 9,500 car fleet of these 70 ton hoppers was built in 1947 and '48 and delivered in this "Linking 13 Great States With The Nation" paint scheme.
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Part #: BS-73313 Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) - Road #s: TBA– 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73316 Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) - Road #s: TBA– 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73321 Chicago Great Western (CGW) - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The 1,400 mile Chicago Great Western linked Chicago and Omaha on one axis and the Twin Cities and Kansas City on the other.  The CGW used hoppers to move coal, stone, low grade iron ore and petroleum coke.  The CGW became part of the Chicago & North Western System in 1968.  This road name will be available in 6 road numbers.
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Part #: BS-73322 Chicago Great Western (CGW) - Road #s: TBA– 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73323 Chicago Great Western (CGW) - Road #s: TBA– 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73331 Alaska Railroad (ARR) - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The 525 mile Alaska Railroad links Fairbanks deep in the interior of the state with Anchorage, Whitter and Seaward on the Gulf of Alaska.  Interchange with other railroads is accomplished with ocean-going car barges to ports in Canada and the Seattle area. Three of this line's top commodities, coal, sand and gravel all move in hoppers.  This roadname will be available in 3 road numbers.
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Part #: BS-73332 Alaska Railroad (ARR) - Road #s: TBA– 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Eighth Announcement
Part #: BS-73261 Kansas City Southern - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Prior to their major expansions beginning in 1993, Kansas City Southern along with subsidiary Louisiana & Arkansas consisted of a 1,700 mile system linking Kansas City with the Gulf of Mexico at Port Arthur, Texas and from Dallas to New Orleans. KCS’s freight car lettering practices were modest, but size of the 9,000 car combined KCS-L&A car fleet made them a common sight across the country. In recent years, KCS acquired MidSouth, Texas-Mexican and took control of major routes in Mexico.
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Part #: BS-73262 Kansas City Southern - Road #s: TBA– 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73271 Georgia Railroad - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The Georgia Railroad received this group of hoppers from Greenville in 1952. The 330 mile Georgia Railroad linked Augusta with Atlanta and Macon. The Georgia controlled the West Point Route roads running west all the way to Birmingham and Selma, Alabama. This made the Georgia the anchor link in a Georgia-West Point Route-Frisco (or Illinois Central) trunk linking the southern plains with the deep south. In 1983, Georgia Railroad was rolled into Seaboard System.
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Part #: BS-73272 Georgia Railroad - Road #s: TBA– 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73281 Bessemer & Lake Erie - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The Bessemer &Lake Erie linked the Bessemer-Pittsburgh area with the Lake Erie docks at Conneaut (pronounced Connie-ott), Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania. The vast majority of the B&LE fleet was hoppers which were used to move iron ore south from the lake docks and coal north. Much of this material moved to industry on connecting lines making these iron-red cars a common sight around the entire region. This group of 5,000 B&LE hoppers featured a 90-ton capacity but were largely indistinguishable from 70-ton cars.
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Part #: BS-73283 Bessemer & Lake Erie - Road #s: TBA – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73291 Illinois Terminal - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

With the help of the Illinois Terminal Historical Society we learned that the “I” and “T” had red drop-shadows. We were also able to clean up the cursive “Illinois” and “terminal” and get the

shop dates correct.  Production is now well underway on this run. 
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Part #: BS-73292 Illinois Terminal - Road #s: TBA – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73293 Illinois Terminal - Road #s: TBA – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Illinois Te rminal. For most railroads, the transition era of the 1950s meant the transition from steam to diesel operation. For the Illinois Terminal, transition meant much more. ITC moved from being an electrified interurban line with significant freight traffic (and some steam power) to being an all diesel powered all-freight line. Also during this period, some major Class One carriers in the St. Louis area (B&O, C&EI, CB&Q, GM&O, Litchfield & Madison, IC, NKP, Frisco, and Wabash) jointly purchased the ITC to provide a neutral terminal railroad in the St. Louis area. The Illinois Terminal mainline ran northeast from St. Louis to Springfield where the line split for Peoria, Bloomington, Decatur, and Danville. In total, the ITC operated more than 400 route miles in Illinois. In 1981, the Illinois Terminal was merged into the Norfolk & Western.
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Part #: BS-73301 Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

Thanks to Mike and Lance, both knowledgeable “Canucks” for their help with our TH&B artwork. Since more than half the fleet was assigned at one point to the Dane iron ore pool (along with a number of CA-SO, CN, NYC, P&LE and ONT hoppers) we have added the Dane

“big white dot.”  After that service ended, these hoppers moved on to other service but kept their white dots.  We also added CP style diamond reflectors and greatly im­proved the TH&B bow tie logo.  Lastly, we are replacing the coal load with an iron ore load (we suggest trim­ming off the risers on the bottom of the loads so they’ll sit lower in the car).  After their days of hauling iron ore, these cars could be found moving coke, scrap tinplate, anode slime, stone, crushed slag and zinc concentrate. 

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Part #: BS-73302 Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo - Road #s: TBA – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73303 Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo - Road #s: TBA – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The 110 mile Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo operated in the isthmus between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie west of Buffalo and south of Toronto. For most of its history, ownership was split between New York Central (later PC) and Canadian Pacific. After the collapse of Penn Central, CP took sole ownership then finally merged the TH&B in the mid-80s. TH&B served the heavily industrialized region around Hamilton, Ontario and sported fairly heavy traffic levels.
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Seventh Announcement

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. So 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.

Part #: BS-73221 Erie - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The Erie served coal mines in Ohio and Pennsylvania For many years they even owned both anthracite and bituminous coal mining operations in Pennsylvania Within Erie ’s diverse hopper fleet were these 1,000 70-ton offset side cars Erie held their own in the busy Chicago -New York corridor against arch competitors PRR, NYC and B&O Much of the Erie mainline was even double tracked The Erie merged with the Lackawanna in 1960
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Part #: BS-73231 Illinois Central - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Illinois Central was the principle hauler of coal from the massive Illinois Coal Basin Coal made up 40% of Illinois Central’s gross tonnage and their “Central” location and high yield made this coal competitive in much of the country Because of this, IC hoppers could be found nearly anywhere in the lower 48 This particular batch was built in IC’s huge Centralia Car Shops (not too far from the Bluford Shops) in 1966 Despite being built 17 years after the C&O cars seen below, IC used friction bearing trucks on these cars
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Part #: BS-73232 Illinois Central - Road #s: TBA– 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73236 Illinois Central - Road #s: TBA - 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73241 SCL-Family Lines - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
SCL -Family Lines Seaboard Coast Line inherited these cars from both Atlantic Coast Line (previously available from Bluford Shops) and Seaboard Air Line (see the June 2010 announcements) in their 1967 merger In 1975, a portion of the combined fleet received heavy service at SCL’s Tampa shops and emerged in The Family Lines paint scheme The Family Lines encompassed SCL, Louisville & Nashville, Clinchfield, Georgia, Atlanta & West Point and Western Railway of Alabama SCL had stock control of L&N SCL and L&N jointly owned Clinchfield and jointly controlled Georgia Railroad Georgia controlled A&WP and WofA The latter two were together called “West Point Route” All were folded into Seaboard System in 1983
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Part #: BS-73242 SCL-Family Lines - Road #s: TBA – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73243 SCL-Family Lines - Road #s: TBA – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73251 Chesapeake & Ohio - Road #: TBA – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

Coal hauling giant Chesapeake & Ohio received 1,000 of these cars from General American in 1949 They were one of the earliest groups of cars to be equipped with roller bearing trucks and received a prominent white band on the side to remind crews of this fact In those days, cars with friction bearing trucks were frequently spotted and left without setting the handbrakes Doing that with roller bearing equipped cars would be inviting disaster.

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Part #: BS-73252 Chesapeake & Ohio - Road #s: TBA – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73256 Chesapeake & Ohio - Road #s: TBA- 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73181 Missouri Pacific – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Those not familiar with Missouri Pacific may believe that it wouldn’t be much of a “coal road.” That would be incorrect and MP rostered about 5,000 of these 70-ton offset side hoppers as proof. MP served coal mines in southern Illinois, western Missouri (and adjoining states,) east Texas and eastern Colorado. While many roads advertised their passenger fleets on their boxcars, MP was one of the few to do the same on open top cars like hoppers and gondolas. They began applying this scheme to new cars and repaints around 1949 and continued for the next decade.
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Part #: BS-73182 Missouri Pacific – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73191 Missouri-Illinois Railroad – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
One of Missouri Pacific ’s several subsidiary lines, Missouri-Illinois Railroad (known affectionately by locals as the “Mike and Ike ”) served a number of large coal mines in southern Illinois. The Illinois Coal Basin covers large tracts of southern Illinois and Indiana and western Kentucky and can generate close to 60 million tons annually. That would fill a whopping 2,300 seventy ton hoppers every day! Most of the coal originated on the M-I was delivered to connecting lines for heavy industry across the midwest and far west.
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Part #: BS-73193 Missouri-Illinois Railroad – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73201 Seaboard Air Line Railroad – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Seaboard Air Line Railroad was a 4,000+ mile system serving Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Seaboard picked up 500 of these cars from Pullman Standard in 1957. In addition to coal, Seaboard’s hopper fleet was just as likely to be found hauling sand, gravel, or crushed stone. These cars joined the Seaboard Coast Line fleet with Seaboard’s 1967 merger with Atlantic Coast Line. This roadname will be available in 6 road numbers. 73201 single car; 73202 2-Pack; 73203 3-Pack.
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Part #: BS-73202 Seaboard Air Line Railroad – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73211 Carbon County Railway – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Carbon County Railway served two massive coal mines in Utah. Much of the coal went for making coke to feed the furnaces of the steel mill that owned the railroad. However, the output of the mines far exceeded what the mill could use and the extra coal moved to industries in other states and even moved to the coast for export. The CBC freight car fleet consisted of 500 hoppers and a single gondola. Carbon County Railway closed up in 1983. This roadname will be available in 3 road numbers. 73211 single car; 73212 2-Pack.
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Part #: BS-73212 Carbon County Railway – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

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Part #: BS-73151 Southern – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The 10,000+ mile Southern Railway System blanketed the southern Appalachia region and consequently hauled much of the coal produced.Like the New York Central and Missouri Pacific, Southern was made up of several large subsidiary
railroads including the Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific, the New Orleans & North Eastern, and the Alabama Great Southern. In latter years, the Georgia & Florida, Central of Georgia, Interstate, Savannah & Atlanta along with
several smaller lines would join the ranks of Southern’s “paper” railroads. Prior to the 1960 adoption of the big block style lettering, Southern lettered their freight equipment with the classic Railroad Roman style. Until the 1980s, Southern used
their full name as their reporting marks with large numerals. Southern delivered much of their coal traffic to connecting roads at Southern’s gateways in St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Washington D.C., Jacksonville, New Orleans, and
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Part #: BS-73152 Southern – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73161 Canadian National (CN)  – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

Canadian National had a whopping 4,655 offset side 3-bay hoppers making them one of the most common cars on CN. They were built in several batches between 1949 and 1958. Eastern Car Company, National Steel, and Canadian Car & Foundry all built cars to this same design for CN. Beginning in 1961, cars were repainted with the newly adopted “noodle” logo as they went in for servicing. The Canadian National of this period operated over 22,000 miles of line. That’s more than the Santa Fe and Pennsylvania Railroad combined!

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Part #: BS-73162 Canadian National (CN)  – 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part #: BS-73163 Canadian National (CN)  – 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73171 Nickel Plate Road – Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The New York Chicago & St. Louis was better known as Nickel Plate Road since the time of its construction. From the 1920s onward, Nickel Plate had made its name by funneling high priority freight from its western gateway cities of Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis to connections with eastern roads in Buffalo, New York. Coal had always been part of the mix but in 1949, Nickel Plate became a major originator of coal when they acquired the Wheeling & Lake Erie. The X-shaped W&LE linked Toledo with Wheeling, West Virginia on one axis, and Cleveland and Zanesville, Ohio on the other axis. The acquisition included 3,000 of these 70 ton hoppers. In 1964, Nickel Plate picked up another 500 of these cars from Bethlehem Steel. The hunger for coal for electricity, metallurgical, industrial, and consumer use sent these hoppers across much of the country.
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Part #: BS-73121 Boston & Maine - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Boston & Maine picked up these cars second hand in 1962. They had been built by Bethlehem 13 years before but were still in great shape .B&M was not much of a coal hauler but they did move a great deal of stone for the region’s growing construction business. Therefore, the loads for our B&M run will represent gray stone instead of black coal.
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Part #: BS-73131 Minneapolis & St. Louis - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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The 1,500 mile Minneapolis & St. Louis ran from the Twin Cities and points in South Dakota, south through central Iowa, then east to connections with the eastern trunk lines in Peoria, Illinois. They presented themselves as a bridge route from the Northwest to the East whilst avoiding the congestion of Chicago. Ironically, coal was their largest single commodity. This was due to the voluminous grain traffic being split between wheat, corn and others, but also the large open pit coal mines in Iowa. More coal mines were served in central Illinois.
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Part #: BS-73132 Minneapolis & St. Louis - 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part #: BS-73141 Milwaukee Road - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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.
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Part # BS-73091 Burlington Route (CB&Q) - Single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Burlington Route had over 3,000 of these offset side cars which they built in their own Havelock Shops between 1949 and 1952. Most survived into the Burlington Northern era. These cars have the Everywhere West slogan on one side and the Way of the Zephyr slogan on the other.
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Part # BS-73101 Rock Island - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Rock Island had been picking up 70 ton 3-bay offset side hoppers in quantity since 1949. They leased this particular batch from United States Railway Equipment in 1971. These cars (which had been built years before by Pullman Standard) had a good going-over by USRE and were equipped with modern roller bearing trucks. ACI tags were mandatory by this time and are included on these cars.
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Part # BS-73111 Monon - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
The 600 mile Monon covered Indiana with an X shaped system. One axis linked Chicago with Indianapolis and the other axis linked the Great Lakes port of Michigan City to Louisville. The two routes crossed in the small city of Monon, Indiana. Monon would merge with Louisville & Nashville in 1971.
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Part # BS-73051 Central of Georgia (CoG) - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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The 1,700 mile Central of Georgia system swarmed across Georgia and Alabama with tendrils into neighboring states. Their motto “The Right Way ” appeared on much of the freight car fleet. They came under the control of the Southern Railway in 1963 after a brief period of control by Frisco.
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Part # BS-73061 Chicago & North Western (C&NW) - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Chicago & North Western received a large fleet of these Offset Side cars from builder Pullman Standard in the late ‘40s. Many remained in service into the ‘80s.
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Part # BS-73062 Chicago & North Western (C&NW) - 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper Click
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Part # BS-73066 Chicago & North Western (C&NW) - 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part # BS-73071 New York Central (NYC) - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
New York Central obtained their first 3-bay Offset Side Hoppers in the late 1920 ’s. Most were rebuilt beginning in 1949 and soldiered on for many more years. More new cars were acquired in the early 50s, before NYC switched allegiance on 70-ton hopper designs in 1956 to our other new body style.
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Part # BS-73076 New York Central (NYC) - 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part # BS-73081 Canadian Pacific-Script (CP) - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
Canadian Pacific had 3,500 of these Offset Side cars. The script herald was adopted in 1959 and survived in revenue service on some of these cars at least into the mid-80s.
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Part # BS-73021 Southern Pacific - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Southern Pacific had over 650 of these Offset Side cars. They received the lettering seen here in the 1960s. This group was assigned to Collier Carbon & Chemical in California.
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Part # BS-73026 Southern Pacific - 6-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper

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Part # BS-73011 Atlantic Coast Line - Prismo Stripe - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Atlantic Coast Line took delivery of these Offset Side cars in this paint scheme in 1952. The use of semi-reflective “Prismo” stripes along the lower edge of freight cars set ACL decades ahead of other railroads and the FRA in this respect.
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Part # BS-73013 Atlantic Coast Line - Prismo Stripe - 3-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part # BS-73041 Baltimore & Ohio - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Baltimore & Ohio had over 9,500 of these Offset Side cars built from the late ‘40s to the late ‘50s. Many lasted well into the Chessie era.
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Part # BS-73040 Baltimore & Ohio - 10-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Part # BS-73031 Bangor & Aroostook - single - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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Bangor & Aroostook served Northern Maine with a 500 mile network and had the practice of painting the road numbers on hoppers twice per side, one of them quite large!
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Part # BS-73032 Bangor & Aroostook - 2-Pack - 70-Ton, 3-Bay, Offset-Side Hopper
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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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