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Bluford Shops - N Scale - 14-Panel 70 Ton 3-Bay Hopper - Westrn Maryland (WM) (3 pack) (SKU 188-14083)

Available On: September 1, 2010

 

 

Features:

- Friction bearing or roller bearing trucks as appropriate for each road name
- fully molded air tank and valve with piping, slope sheet braces
- body mounted brake hose detail
- separate brake cylinder, rod and lever detail (a first on an N scale open hopper!)
- body mounted magnetically operating couplers
- coal load
- diecast slope sheets and center sill
- and injection molded plastic sides, ends and hopper doors

All runs will be available in multiple road numbers (a single and one of each of the multi-packs gives you one of each road number available.)

 

Bethlehem Steel built 500 of these cars for Western Maryland in the Spring of 1958. The cars were delivered with roller bearing trucks which was still somewhat novel in 1958. As a result, a yellow circle with the letter R was painted next to the road number to alert crews and agents to this feature. The WM was a major originator of coal traffic with hoppers of various designs making up more than half of WM’s 14,000+ car fleet. B&O officially took control of the WM in 1967. In 1973, WM adopted the Chessie image. 







$65.37 US
Country of Origin: China