Bangor & Aroostook (1950s) offset side hoppers. The Bangor & Aroostook was a 500 mile Class 1 railroad serving Northeastern Maine. Famous for their State of Maine potato trains, the big income came from moving freight for the paper industry. Inbound came pulpwood, chips and chemicals, outbound went giant rolls of paper. While today, big industry supplies their power needs by plugging into the local utility grid, back “in the day” it was more common for industries (even relatively small ones) to have their own coal fired boilers for power and heat. This was certainly the case for paper mills.
BAR purchased their hoppers to fill this need although later in their lives they could also be found hauling gravel or even sugar beats. 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