Montour 14-Panel hoppers. The Montour Railroad was a busy coal hauling shortline in Southwestern Pennsylvania. For most of its history the Montour was jointly owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad (Penn Central in 1968) and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (itself a subsidiary of New York Central.) The collapse of Penn Central brought about the independence of P&LE who then took full control of the Montour. The Montour remained a separate operation however. By the late 70s, the Montour had racked up a lopsided car-hire account due to a lack of serviceable home road hoppers. P&LE leased 200 of their hoppers to Montour in 1979 for interline service to balance out the car-hire deficit. The cars were serviced and repainted at P&LE’s McKees Rocks shops and turned over to Montour. Thanks to the Montour Historical Society for their help on this one. This run will be available in 3 roadnumbers and include “coal” 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