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

The Montour Railroad served 27 coal mines with just 50 miles of railroad in southwestern Pennsylvania. This required a fleet of 1,500 USRA 2-bay hoppers along with another 500 hoppers of other designs making them a common sight across the Industrial Midwest. Montour was jointly owned by Pennsylvania Railroad and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. These are available in 4 road numbers.

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