New York Central Woodchip Service 14-Panel hoppers. NYC developed this style of 70-ton hopper in the mid-50s and continued to buy and build them into the 1960s. During the 60s, a portion of the fleet received these special markings and were assigned to woodchip service. The timber industry had begun using chips to make particle and chip board several years before but purpose-built large capacity “woodchip cars” were still relatively rare. By assigning certain hoppers to this service NYC avoided the frequent cleaning that cars from coal, coke and aggregate service would require before hauling woodchips. This run will be available in 6 roadnumbers and include “chip” loads.

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 Aug. 31,2011 

Delivery Expected March 2012