#FT-1003b   New York Central   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. • $56.00 Set #3: Road #NYC 885905, #885938 • June 2022 Set #3 $56.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The New York Central Railroad (NYC), established in 1853, operated in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the USA, connecting New York and Boston in the East with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest. NYC was headquartered in the NYC Building, adjacent to it's Grand Central Station. In 1968, the NYC merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), to form Penn Central (PC) which went bankrupt by 1970 and merged into Conrail (CR) in 1976. CR broke-up in 1999, and it's system was split between CSXT and Norfolk Southern (NS), with CSX acquiring most of the NYC trackage. Some of NYC's fleet of Cylindrical Hoppers, important to "modern" shipping, were repainted to reflect the PC and CR eras, but many remained in NYC livery.

#FT-1027/1028   IMC   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #3: #NAHX 51308, GCCX 112368 • October 2015 Set #3 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

After WWII, USA Railroads were increasingly called upon to haul new and unique "modern" products over long distances. American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type Cylindrical "Center Flow" covered hopper car. Here was a "Freight Car for the Future," ready to transport sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals

and plastics! Founded in 1909 and headquartered in IL, IMC Global was a mining and production company, which in 2004 merged with Cargill, Inc.'s crop nutrition division to form The Mosaic Co., devoted to crop nutrition. Here's an earlier and later IMC Cylindrical Hopper livery from Full Throttle.

#FT-1022b   Wayne Feeds   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #3: Road #SHPX 62242, #62247 • October 2016 Set #3 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Dale Wilmore McMillen (1880 –1971) was a leading proponent of the use of feed supplements in animal husbandry. He He bought a small elevator in Fort Wayne, Indiana and founded Wayne Feeds and Central Soya to produce a concentrate of the protein, vitamins and minerals that were lacking in regular feed. They merged with American Milling Co. in 1929 to form Allied Mills. Due to many early mergers of RR Co.s, ACF Industries is represented in most States of the Northern US, east of the Mississippi River. After WWII, USA Railroads were increasingly called upon to haul new and unique "modern" products over long distances. American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type "Center Flow" covered hopper car. Here was a "Freight Car for the Future," ready to transport sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals and plastics!  SHPX is a reporting mark for the leasing division of ACF Industries.

#FT-1032   Alberta   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #3: Road #ALNX 396218, #ALPX 628270 • June 2019 Set #3 $54.00 • Slave Lake • Eaglesham

Cylindrical grain cars are one of Canada's best-known contributions to the North American railcar network. Over 19,000 covered cylindrical Government-sponsored hoppers, built by several railcar manufacturers, have been carrying Canadiangrain and products on rails since 1972. The brightest paint schemes adorning the cars belonged to the Canadian Wheat Board, Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation and the province of Alberta. Assigned to CN or CP, as denoted by an 'N' or 'P' in their reporting marks, the cars stayed on their home rails for loading. Like other Larger Scale railcar model fabricators who operate their Cylindricals on tight radius track, Full Throttle has adapted the colorful Canadian paint schemes to it's shorter three-outlet Z Scale cylindrical model, for easier management and performance on usually compact ZScale layouts.

#FT-1036-3   Canada   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. • $56.00 Set #3: Road #CNWX 111286, CPWX 606476 • Dec 2021 Set #3 $56.00 • CANADA ~ Wheat Trade

Cylindrical grain cars are one of Canada's best-known contributions to the North American railcar network. Over 19,000 covered cylindrical Government-sponsored hoppers, built by several railcar manufacturers, have been carrying Canadiangrain and products on rails since 1972. The brightest paint schemes adorning the cars belonged to the Canadian Wheat Board, Saskatchewan Grain Car Corporation and the province of Alberta. Assigned to CN or CP, as denoted by an 'N' or 'P' in their reporting marks, the cars stayed on their home rails for loading. Like other Larger Scale railcar model fabricators who operate their Cylindricals on tight radius track, Full Throttle has adapted the colorful Canadian paint schemes to it's shorter three-outlet Z Scale cylindrical model, for easier management and performance on usually compact ZScale layouts.

#FT-1042   Old Dutch • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. • $56.00 Set #1: Road #ACFX 173201, #173205 • March 2014 Set #2: Road #ACFX 173204, #173207 • March 2014 Set #2: Road #ACFX 173203, #173206 • June 2021 Set #3 $56.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This month's offering is yet another paying homage to the old TYCO "brown box" line of freight cars, which brought FUN into model railroading!

One of FT 's most popular and "trade-able" Cylindricals, ever! We first designed and produced the "Old Dutch" Cylindrical nearly eight years ago, in homage to TYCO's "Brown Box" series of fun Rail Cars. Since then I've had many requests for a re-run from those that missed out, and I thought that now, July '21 would be appropriate. Hope you think so, too! Check out this nifty 2-pk.! All new printing and reporting numbers!

#FT-1043   TPW   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #TPW 17205, #TPW 17208 • August 2013 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

TP&W, a Rail Line still in operation! The TP&W is well-known throughout the Midwest, especially in Indiana and Illinois and around the Great Lakes region.

#FT-1045   Cotton Belt   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SSW 79032, #79039 • January 2014 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

COTTON BELT ran, in essence, SP's most Eastern USA rail routes; their Diesels were painted in SP colors! The "modern" Aluminum cars were used by many Rail Lines after the 1960's.

#FT-1049   Maypo   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 17472, #SHPX 17477 • May 2015 Set #2: Road #SHPX 17473, #SHPX 17476 • May 2015 Any 2-Pack $54.00 Set #1 + Set #2 $108.00 Set #1 $54.00 Set #2 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

"This month's release,  May '15 , pays tribute to one of kid's favorite oatmeals, MAYPO!  Made popular in the 1950's and 60's via TV Ads, MAYPO became a staple for many American families!

These small three-outlet covered hoppers extol the product in the style of the Old Tyco Brown Box Rail Cars!" -Will The bodies represent steel, painted to a slight sheen in a colorful livery.

#FT-1051   Hercules   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 60302, #SHPX 60307 • February 2016 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Hercules, Inc., was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware.  Hercules Powder Co. was formed in 1882 by DuPont and Laflin to finance a dynamite plant adjacent to the San Francisco Bay on land owned by DuPont's California Powder Works.

Hercules was spun off from DuPont as a result of U.S. antitrusts actions and operated in the name until 2008, when it was merged into Ashland Inc.  Hercules, Inc., was one of the major producers of smokeless powder for warfare in the USA during the 20th century.

#FT-1054   Baroid   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #BDNX 101, #BDNX 106 • March 2018 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The National Lead Co. is a lead smelting company currently based in Houston, TX. Begun in Philadelphia, PA, in 1772, it was one of the 12 original stocks included in the original Dow Jones Industrial Average of 1896. In 1907 they created the "Dutch Boy" line of paints. It's Baroid Division deals with chemicals and mineral products for the well and oil drilling industry.

#FT-1055   DUZ   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 6201, #SHPX 6204 • September 2018 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This month's offering is yet another paying homage to the old TYCO "brown box" line of freight cars, which brought FUN into model railroading!

In the days of early television many products were advertised for cleaning in your "Wringer" washers! DUZ was one of these. Targeting the housewife while sponsoring afternoon drama series like "The Guiding Light," the detergents were responsible for their moniker as "Soap Operas!" DUZ was marketed as powdered laundry soap, soft on the hands, from the 1940's through the 1970's and offered gifts in the box such as glassware or dinner plates. A very popular and universal product!

#FT-1058   Wyandotte   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 53256, #SHPX 53259 • September 2017 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

At the turn of the 19th century, Wyandotte, Michigan, became a major hub in the chemical production industry, possible because of the many salt mines deep below the city. Captain John Baptiste Ford, used the salt to create soda ash, which in turn was used to produce plate glass. In 1893, he formed Michigan Alkali Company, which manufactured baking soda, soda ash and lye. The company, later renamed Wyandotte Chemicals Co., went on to make a variety of soaps and cleaners, and eventually in 1969, became part of BASF, the largest investment a German company had ever made in the USA. SHPX is a reporting mark for the leasing division of ACF Industries.

#FT-1059   Celanese   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #ACFX 37252, #ACFX 37257 • July 2018 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Founded by Camille Dreyfus in NYC (1918), Celanese Corp. (Hoechst) is a global technology company, now headquartered in Irving, TX, employing nearly 7,500 people, and with a revenue of $5.4 billion per year! They specialize in acetyl products (intermediate chemicals for nearly all major industries) and is the world's greatest producer of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM). Celanese's operations are primarily located in North America, Europe and Asia with the planet's largest acetic acid plant being located near Pasadena, Texas. Cylindrical Hoppers were, in 1960, ACF's shape and "Center-Flow" concept haulers for the 20th Century and beyond, designed to transport "modern" commodities like sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals and plastics!

#FT-1060   Cumberland   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 60772, #SHPX 60775 • October 2018 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The chemical companies across America couldn't wait for a fleet of cylindrical covered hoppers to haul their products throughout the nation!  CUMBERLAND CHEMICAL!  Turns out ACF designed a gorgeous prototype livery for this company that specialized in Vinyl Plastics!  These cars add a striking accent to any layout being represented across the breadth of our country!

#FT-1062   Big Bogie   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #NAHX 41002, #NAHX 41003 • June 2018 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This month's offering is yet another paying homage to the old TYCO "brown box" line of freight cars, which brought FUN into model railroading!

Early in the 1900's two brothers from Sioux Falls, SD, Henry and James Fenn, one a bank clerk and the other a shoe salesman, tested their entrepreneurship by opening a confectionary specializing in their own ice cream and soda pop. This soon expanded into the creation of high-grade candy bars, the popular "WALNUT CRUSH," "BUTTER BRICKLE" and "BIG BOGIE!" Using the best ingredients possible their celebrity swelled, so began shipping country-wide, and in 1951 opening another plant inCalifornia. The sons joined up and kept the company running until the 1970's when, instead of using substitutes, the costs of "real" quality ingredients became too expensive to continue production. FENN BROS. CONFECTIONS was sold off and the legend of "BIG BOGIE" bars, history.

#FT-1063   Hollywood   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #NAHX 73952, #NAHX 73953 • December 2017 Set #1 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

In 1933, Frank Martoccio changed the name of his Confectionery Co. to Hollywood Brands moving to Centralia, IL in 1938. Using only the best ingredients he invented fluffy nougat and a synthetic coating for candy bars which he used on his white "ZERO" bars to keep them from melting in hot weather. His "Hollywood" bars were a delicious combination of dark chocolate, carmel, nougat and peanuts. In 1967 Hollywood Brands was sold to Consolidated Foods, later Sara Lee. Another fun addition in the tradition of the old TYCO "Brown Box" series, Full Throttle presents a Hollywood Cylindrical Hopper!

#FT-1065   SOUTHERN   "Big John" • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. • $54.00 Set #1: Road #SOU 6038, #SOU 6173 • March 2021 Set #2: Road #SOU 6087, #SOU 6130 • March 2021 Any 2-Pack $54.00 Set #1 + Set #2 $108.00 Set #1 $54.00 Set #2 $54.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

What's a "Big John?" SOUTHERN had a fleet of very large multi-colored, covered grainers to which they named "Big Johns!" ACF 51', three-compartment cylindricals are apropos to represent a large grainer on smaller home-style layouts! In each set, one model is an Aluminum hopper painted with red lettering and the other, a Steel car pained black with bright orange lettering. A great addition to the FT collection of unusual freight cars for the Z Scale hobbyist! A "must" for SOUTHERN RAILWAY runners and those who run southern USA RR Lines.

The Southern Railway (SOU) was the product of 150 predecessor lines that were combined and reorganized in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894. From dieselization and shop/yard modernization, to computers and the development of special cars, the unit coal train and Radio Controlled Mid-Train Helper Locomotives, Southern was often on the cutting edge of change, earning the catch phrase, "Southern Gives a Green Light to Innovation." Southern and it's subsidiaries covered and serviced nearly the entire southern portion of the USA with freight and passenger traffic! In response to the creation of CSX in 1980, the Southern Railway merged with Norfolk and Western Railway to form the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982, further consolidating railroads in the eastern half of our Nation.

#FT-1066   Southern Pacific   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. • $56.00 Set #1: Road #BLCX 1078, #BLCX 1085 • August 2021 Set #1 $56.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Southern Pacific (SP) was a huge American Railroad, founded in 1865 and incorporating many smaller railroads such as the Texas and New Orleans, Central Pacific, Morgan's Louisiana and Texas, and St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt). The Southern Pacific, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, owned many narrow gauge routes and subsidiaries such as the Northwestern Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico. SP's rails ran through Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, and Oregon, including a route southward into Mexico! Rio Grande Industries (D&RGW) bought the SP in 1988, kept the Southern Pacific name, and expanded it's trackage to include Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, then, virtually the entire Southwestern USA! Following years of financial problems, in 1996, the Southern Pacific was bought by the Union Pacific Railroad.

#FT-1067   Spic 'N Span   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. • $56.00 Set #1: Road #SHPX 3231, #SHPX 3235 • June 2022 Set #1 $56.00 • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This month's offering is yet another paying homage to the old TYCO "brown box" line of freight cars, which brought FUN into model railroading!

Spic and Span household cleaner was invented by housewives Elizabeth "Bet" MacDonald and Naomi Stenglein in Saginaw, Michigan in 1933, and until 1944 both families helped run their "Spic and Span Products Company". In 1945 Procter & Gamble, of Cincinnati, Ohio, bought Spic and Span for $1.9 million. In 1949, Procter & Gamble registered the "Spic and Span" trademark. The brand, along with Comet, was acquired by Prestige Brands in 2001, and later in 2018 was sold to KIK Custom Products Inc.

#FT-COL-51   Aluminum Grainers   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #3: #BN 445056, GN 71596 • September 2020 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

After WWII, American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type "Center Flow" covered hopper car. Here was a "Freight Car for the Future," ready to transport sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals and plastics! Some Railroads of our Northwest Plains experimented with Aluminum bodies to cut down on costs of interstate grain shipping. Great Northern Railway was a colorful transcontinental Rail Line (1857-1970) which ran from Chicago northward along the USA/Canada border, serving both nations, and to Washington, Oregon and California on our West Coast. It's famous herald was of a mountain goat within a circle. It eventually merged with NP, CB&Q, and SP&S to form the Burlington Northern Railroad until 1996 when the BN merged with ATSF to become BNSF. The Burlington Northern Railroad was formed in 1970 from the merger of four large railroads, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Spokane, Portland and Seattle, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. It serviced the Central US, most of the Midwestern States, and the Pacific Northwest. It purchased the ATSF in 1996 to become BNSF, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, one of the four major railroads in the USA!