MTH - RailKing - O Scale 3-Rail - 4-Bay Hopper Car - Reading (RDG) - #87082 (Black) (SKU 507-3075569)
Available On: June 1, 2017
Unlike equipment that carried a variety of loads, like boxcars, flatcars, and gondolas, this four-bay hopper was designed specifically for one cargo: bituminous coal. Its capacity matched the volume of coal that a pair of typical 70-ton freight trucks could carry. And its slope sheets - the angled floors at either end of the car - were set at precisely the angle at which coal would flow easily from its bottom doors. (Covered grain hoppers, for example, require much steeper slope sheets.)