The AAR had a standard 70 ton rib side hopper, however New York Central made changes to the AAR design in 1956, and their variation became popular with more railroads than the original AAR standard. These cars were lower and shorter than later 90 and 100 ton cars but had more ribs (making for 14 full length panels.) Thirteen of the fifteen ribs were welded in place instead of riveted. These cars were built by a number of builders from 1956 through the late 60s with many serving through the 1990s and perhaps beyond...

 Florida East Coast. This group of 70 ton hoppers was delivered in the Spring of 1965, in the second year of a violent strike.Trains continued to run during the labor action. It would be another six years before the strike ended and Florida East Coast emerged years ahead of other railroads in technology and operating practices. By 1971, FEC was installing concrete ties, operating with two-man crews and cabooses had become a fond memory. FEC’s primary hopper commodity is limestone gravel (used in construction) from an area east of Hiyaleah, so we are including a limestone load for this run instead of the usual coal load. This roadname will be available in 6 road numbers.

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.)

Reserve Before December 10,2010

For May 2011 Delivery