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.)

Offset side 70 ton 3-bay hoppers first appeared in the late 1920s but by the late 30s they had evolved into the AAR standard design seen here. They were built in large quantities by many builders until the mid-1960s. Many remained in service into the 1990s.

The Bessemer & Lake Erie linked the Bessemer-Pittsburgh area with the Lake Erie docks at Conneaut (pronouncedConnie-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. This roadname will be available in 6 road numbers.

Reserve Before September 30,2010