#FT-1000   Undecorated   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $35.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #N/A • December 2006 2-Pack   Trucks/Couplers sold separately! • FT Roller Bearing Trucks/Couplers • MTL Roller Bearing Trucks/Couplers

Many of my customers have been asking for undecorated Cylindrical Hoppers. Apparently there are some painters and bashers who would like to try their hand at customizing some of these nifty covered cars. Well, I've got some UNDECORATED 2-pks. here and I want them to be available only through Full Throttle Dealers!

They will come in the usual plastic box with liners and foam inserts, assembled, with the catwalks glued to the roofs and the new heavier weights glued inside of the body. There will be a simple set of instructions right in the box which describes how to take the cars apart into their four basic sections. They will not come with the Roller Bearing truck/couplers.

#FT-1014b   D&RGW   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. Set #3: Road #D&RGW 15587, #15598 • September 2022 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW), generally referred to as the Rio Grande, was a major origin of coal and mineral traffic, with a motto of "Through the Rockies, not around them." The Rio Grande was the epitome of mountain railroading, operating the highest mainline rail line in the USA and ran famed routes through the Moffat Tunnel and the Royal Gorge. In 1988, Rio Grande Industries, the company that controlled the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad purchased the Southern Pacific Railroad. The combined company took the Southern Pacific (SP) name due to its name recognition among shippers. By the early 1990s, the D&RGW became largely dependent on hauling the high-quality coal produced in the mine fields of Colorado and Utah. In 1996 the D&RGW was sold and merged into the Union Pacific Railroad.

#FT-1023/1024   NYC-PRR-PC-CR   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: #PC 884358, CR 885235 • October 2012 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Here is a really nifty Covered ACF Center-Flow 51' Cylindrical Hopper Collector 2-pk. for the Z Scale modeler! It's a Repaint duo, representing all the ACF Cylindrical hoppers that CONRAIL

inherited from the NYC/PRR merger and thus from Penn Central! The bodies are PC Green and CONRAIL Red with their familiar white logos. The small data appears in white, immaculate, tiny and clean.

#FT-1023/1030   PC / EL   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: #PC 884337, EL 20010 • November 2013 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Covered ACF Center-Flow 51' Cylindrical Hoppers inherited from the Penn Central / Erie Lackawanna merger! FT released single 2-pks of both models in the past and this current dual 2-pk has all new unique Road Numbers.

#FT-1029   Agway   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #NAHX 51917, #51939 • May 2009 Set #2: Road #NAHX 51921, #51944 • August 2014 Set #1   Set #2   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

AGWAY was a Northeastern concern that spread down the East Coast of the USA on one front and Westward to the Great Lakes Region on the other.

#FT-1032   Alberta   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #3: Road #ALNX 396218, #ALPX 628270 • June 2019 Set #3   • 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-1037   Grand Trunk   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #GT 315230, #315236 • June 2011 Set #2: Road #GT 315233, #315238 • June 2011 Set #1   Set #2   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

#FT-1039   SOPAC   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #BLCX 1037, #BLCX 1049 • May 2016 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) was founded in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific RR by lease. The SP, a major USA Railroad by 1900, incorporated many small Southern, Western and even Mexican Lines. By 1929 the SP/T&NO was huge, not including it's Cotton Belt Line, whose purchase of the Golden State Route in 1980

doubled it's size! In 1988 the SP was absorbed by Denver and Rio Grande but kept it's name, serving AZ, AR, CA, CO, IL, KS, LA, MO, NV, NM, OK, OR, TN,TX and UT! In 1996 the SP became part of the Union Pacific Railroad. Full Throttle presents a pair of ACF Cylindrical Covered Hoppers, leased by the SP.

#FT-1039   SOPAC   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #BLCX 1037, #BLCX 1049 • May 2016 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) was founded in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific RR by lease. The SP, a major USA Railroad by 1900, incorporated many small Southern, Western and even Mexican Lines. By 1929 the SP/T&NO was huge, not including it's Cotton Belt Line, whose purchase of the Golden State Route in 1980

doubled it's size! In 1988 the SP was absorbed by Denver and Rio Grande but kept it's name, serving AZ, AR, CA, CO, IL, KS, LA, MO, NV, NM, OK, OR, TN,TX and UT! In 1996 the SP became part of the Union Pacific Railroad. Full Throttle presents a pair of ACF Cylindrical Covered Hoppers, leased by the SP.

#FT-1040   SHPX   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 1402, #SHPX 1405 • July 2013 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

It's a modest-sized 51' FARM and RANCH FEED ACF cylindrical hopper, well-suited to even small personal track plans! Farms and Ranches are the backbone of rural America, no matter what region.

#FT-1041   Grace/Davison   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #CRDX 4503, #CRDX 4505 • April 2013 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This Cylindrical Hopper is a GRACE/DAVISON Chemical car and appropriate for any Rail Line in the USA! Originally based

in Baltimore, MD, GRACE/DAVISON is a specialty chemical company with offices worldwide and who ship their products globally.

#FT-1042   Old Dutch • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #ACFX 173201, #173205 • March 2014 Set #2: Road #ACFX 173204, #173207 • March 2014 Set #1   Set #2   • 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. Set #1: Road #TPW 17205, #TPW 17208 • August 2013 Set #1   • 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-1044   PETROTHENE   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 60416, #SHPX 60417 • July 2014 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This release, July '14, is modeled directly from an ACF prototype manufactured in the early 1960's for U.S. Industrial Chemical Company!

#FT-1045   Cotton Belt   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SSW 79032, #79039 • January 2014 Set #1   • 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-1046   MKT   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #BKTY 1010, #BKTY 1018 • September 2013 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The bodies are green in color as are the roofwalks, hatches, and brakewheels. The data is in yellow, immaculate, tiny and clean, and the M-K-T "Bold Caps" logo appears on the sides of one of the hoppers!

#FT-1047   BORAXO   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #ACFX 23462, #ACFX 23465 • September 2014 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The bodies represent steel, painted gray in color. The data is black, with the red and white BORAXO logo appearing on the sides of the car bodies!

#FT-1048   Domino Sugar   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #ASRX 367518, #ASRX 367527 • December 2014 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

"This month's release, Dec. '14 , is another in homage to the old TYCO "brown box" freight series. These diminutive three-outlet covered hoppers are perfect for small Z Scale layouts!

The 51' ACF Cylindrical Hopper prototypes hauled many different kinds of "modern" products, including sugar." -Will The bodies represent steel, painted to a slight sheen in a colorful livery.

#FT-1048/1052   Sugar / Salt • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: #ASRX 367523, SHPX 61008 • December 2016 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Yes, here are two seasonings that your Doctor advises to avoid!Here's a nifty supplement for you. It's a split Collector's Pack containing one of the DOMINO SUGAR and one of the STERLING SALT Cylindricals. Both were issued before, but this COL Pack has new reporting numbers, of course!

#FT-1049   Maypo   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 17472, #SHPX 17477 • May 2015 Set #2: Road #SHPX 17473, #SHPX 17476 • May 2015 Set #1   Set #2   • 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-1050   Southern States   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 1355, #SHPX 1358 • February 2015 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

"I didn't realize how much SOUTHERN STATES had grown since I left Maryland, where the Company was very well known and supported. Regionally, it was renowned for developing crop seeds that were tolerant of the weather conditions around the Chesapeake Bay environs and the South.

But I see that they have acquired both AGWAY and GOLD KIST, and now serve the entire Eastern Coastal States of the USA from Maine down through to Florida with Farming Products and customized seeds!" -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. Set #1: Road #SHPX 60302, #SHPX 60307 • February 2016 Set #1   • 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-1052   Sterling Salt   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 61006, #SHPX 61009 • December 2015 Set #1   • 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!

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. They are responsible for many innovative Freight and Passenger cars used in modern railroading. After WWII, USA Railroads were increasingly called upon to haul new and unique modern products over long distances. In response, American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type covered hopper car. The cylindrical shape allowed a better weight/volume ratio, plus the elimination of interior ledges, combined with hatches and outlets placed along a center-line, led to ACF's trademark "Center Flow" hoppers! Through the 1960's the cylindricals became omnipresent on our Nation s RR tracks, with many styles of hatches and outlets devised according to needs. Because the cars were compartmented, various loads could be carried in a single unit and some construction with aluminum reduced weight further. 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!

#FT-1053   AJAX   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #ACFX 20101, #ACFX 20108 • August 2016 Set #1   • 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!

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. They are responsible for many innovative Freight and Passenger cars used in modern railroading. After WWII, USA Railroads were increasingly called upon to haul new and unique modern products over long distances. In response, American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type covered hopper car. The cylindrical shape allowed a better weight/volume ratio, plus the elimination of interior ledges, combined with hatches and outlets placed along a center-line, led to ACF's trademark "Center Flow" hoppers! Through the 1960's the cylindricals became omnipresent on our Nation s RR tracks, with many styles of hatches and outlets devised according to needs. Because the cars were compartmented, various loads could be carried in a single unit and some construction with aluminum reduced weight further. 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!

#FT-1056   GN   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #GN 71594, #GN 71597 • January 2019 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Because of it's Mountain Goat Herald and it's myriad colorful freight cars, the GREAT NORTHERN is one of our hobby's favorite Rail Lines! This month's FT offering is an Aluminum GN Cylindrical hopper. Fleets of these were seen in the Great Plains of USA and CANADA. The lighter bodies were useful in keeping costs down on International and Interstate shipping of the grains grown in the West. Both GN and BN invested heavily in these bright new cars! 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. After WWII, USA Railroads were increasingly called upon to haul new and unique "modern" products over long distances. In response, 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! Railroads of our Northwest Plains experimented with Aluminum bodies to cut down on costs of interstate grain shipping.

#FT-1057   BN   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #BN 445053, #BN 445064 • June 2016 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Burlington Northern Railroad was formed in 1970 from the merger of four large railroads. The 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! BN's updates included examples of Aluminum ACF "Center-Flow" Cylindrical Hoppers.

#FT-1061   Hooker   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 82352, #SHPX 82357 • May 2018 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Hooker Chemical Company, was an American concern that produced chlor-alkali products from 1903 to 1968. In 1922, Hooker bought the S.Wander & Sonscompany for the retail sales of lye and chlorinated lime. Hooker Chemical is best known for the chemical waste site "Love Canal," which it sold in 1953, and led to a lengthy lawsuit several decades later. The company located in Niagara Falls, NY noting the low cost electricity from the Niagara Falls power project (1895), the abundance of salt from nearby mines, and availability of water from the Niagara River. Hooker built a new chlor-alkali plant in Tacoma, WA in 1929. Additional products, including sodium sulfide, sodium sulfhydrate, sodium tetrasulfide, and aluminum chloride were produced there. Hooker Chemical Company was purchased by Occidental Petroleum Corporation in 1968.

#FT-1064   Zagnut   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 18352, #SHPX 18355 • April 2019 Set #1   • 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 1930's the D. L. Clark Co. confectionery, famous for their very popular "CLARK BAR," introduced the off-beat candy bar named "ZAGNUT." Composed of a cocoa imbued peanut brittle center, covered with toasted coconut, it gave the mouth a "fuzzy" sensation when chewed! Unique in having no melt-able chocolate involved, the candy bar, now produced by the Hershey Co., has had a resurgence with U.S. troops in arid climates like Iraq and Afghanistan! At home it has a very niche market. Continuing our "Candy" Series, in homage to the old TYCO "Brown Box" models, Full Throttle presents a 1960's era Cylindrical hopper honoring this venerable sweet treat!

#FT-1065   SOUTHERN   "Big John" • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SOU 6038, #SOU 6173 • March 2021 Set #2: Road #SOU 6087, #SOU 6130 • March 2021 Set #1   Set #2   • 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-1067   Spic 'N Span   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 3231, #SHPX 3235 • June 2022 Set #1   • 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-1068   TIDE   2-Pack • 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $56.00 retail ea. Set #1: Road #SHPX 3995, #SHPX 3998 • November 2021 Set #1   • 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!

Tide is an American brand of laundry detergent manufactured and marketed by Procter & Gamble. Introduced in 1946, it is the highest selling detergent brand in the world, with an estimated 14.3 percent of the global market.

#FT-COL-47   Cleansers • 2 x 51' ACF Cylindrical Hoppers   $54.00 retail ea. Set #1: #ACFX 23468 (BORAX),               #ACFX 20106 (AJAX) • December 2019 Set #1   • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

Two former favorites from the Full Throttle 1000 SERIES ~ CYLINDRICALS, a collector pack that pays homage to the old TYCO "Brown Box" models. Both are ACFX leasers and both are hauling CLEANSER products. Both wear new and unique Road Numbers.

#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!