Pullman-Standard dominated the covered hopper car market beginning in the 1950's, thanks to the design success of their PS-2 series of covered hoppers.

Designed to carry bulk commodities, such as grain, cement and plastic pellets, these cars roamed the rails of North America for decades, attesting to their utilitarian functionality.

This release includes six road names with three road numbers available for each.

Features:

• Separately applied round roof hatches
• Photo-etched metal roof walk
• Factory applied wire grab irons
• Separate brake cylinder, valve and air reservoir with wire brake plumbing
• Detailed outlets
• Multiple road numbers
• Fully-assembled and ready-to-run out of the box
• Accurately painted and printed
• Highly detailed, injection molded body
• Separately applied brake wheel
• Machined metal wheels
• Screw mounted trucks
• Body mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
• Weighted for trouble free operation
• Wheels with RP25 contours operate on Code 70, 75, 83, 100 rail
• Minimum radius: 18"

Reservation Due By: May 22, 2014

Expected Release: January 2015