American Steel & Wire offset side hoppers. American Steel & Wire received a modest fleet of hoppers from Greenville in January of 1948. It is likely that these cars were used to haul coke to feed ASW’s blast furnaces. In this context, coke is coal that has been baked in the absence of oxygen, a process that drives out the impurities that would contaminate the steel. One peculiar element of this car is that American Steel & Wire’s reporting marks of ASWX are not used above the road number on the sides although they do appear on the car’s ends. However, there were similar small groups of hoppers
for other Greenville customers in the 1947-1949 period that were similarly lettered. This run will be available in 3 road numbers

Features:

• 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
• Injection molded plastic sides, ends and hopper doors