Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis had 325 of these USRA 2-bay hoppers. NC&St.L ran from Memphis east to Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta. For a time, they had a route to St. Louis by way of Evansville but in 1879, L&N bought a 55% stake in the NC&St.L and transferred that line to themselves. The NC&St.L finally merged into L&N in 1957.

These ready-to-run cars feature:

• 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
• Coal Load
• Lever-Style Hand Brake
• Cody Mounted Magnetically Operating Knuckle Couplers
• Close Coupling
• Metal Wheels

Colorado & Southern, a large subsidiary of Burlington Route, had the longest lived fleet of USRA hoppers. By the mid-60s, many of these cars were assigned to sugar beet service. For this run, we present the fleet with “beet loading only” stencils and a beet load. These cars also have a later version of the Everywhere West stencil than that seen on our first C&S run. These will be available in 6 road numbers.

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