The railroad we know as the Clinchfield was officially called the Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio and used CC&O reporting marks. That is until the property was jointly leased by Louisville & Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line. L&N and ACL established the Clinchfield Railroad (which adopted CRR reporting marks) to operate the property. However, CC&O’s locomotives and rolling stock were included in the lease and continued to wear their original reporting marks even through re-painting. This group of 1,750 USRA hoppers made up the lion’s share of Clinchfield’s hopper fleet for decades. Clinchfield loaded mountains of coal for power plants, ocean piers, factories, mills, and fuel retailers across the east.

These ready-to-run cars will feature:

• diecast slope sheet-hopper bay-center sill assembly
• injection molded plastic sides, ends, and hopper doors
• fully molded brake tank, valve and air lines
• body mounted brake hose detail
• coal load
• lever-style hand brake
• body mounted magnetically operating knuckle couplers
• close coupling
• Fox Valley Models metal wheels

All road names will be available in multiple road numbers. For instance, order a single, a 2-pack and a 3-pack to get all six road numbers on a run. (Some road names will be available in just three road numbers.)