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...

  South-East Coal Company 14-Panel 3-Bay Hoppers. In order to combat a chronic shortage of empty hoppers in the Appalachian region in the 1970s, South-East Coal purchased over 800 hoppers on the used market, about 80% of which were these 14-Panel cars. They were painted institutional green with SECX reporting marks. Nearly all received the company’s 4-color logo. These colorful cars 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 March 31,2011 

Delivery Expected September 2011