For most of its history, Canada Southern operated as a subsidiary in the New York Central System. They ran from the Detroit area, northeast on the Canadian side of Lake Erie to the Niagara Falls – Buffalo area. In the 1960s and ‘70s Canada Southern/NYC, CN, Ontario Northland, P&LE, and TH&B pooled a fleet of hoppers to move iron ore from a mine in Dane, Ontario to steel mills in the United States. The round stencil you see near the middle of the car was applied to all of the CASO cars in this service (as well as many of the cars from the other railroads involved.)  This is our fourth run of cars with the Dane ore service stencil: Ontario Northland and CASO offset side cars plus the TH&B hoppers with a white dot (also assigned to Dane.) We have also released P&LE and CN hoppers without the stencil which were also used in this service. 

FEATURES:

• die cast 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
• load
• body mounted magnetically operating knuckle couplers
• close coupling
• Fox Valley Models metal wheels