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33' Rib-Side 2-Bay Heap Shield Hoppers
33' 2-Bay Heap Shield Hoppers Feature:
• Fine Printing
• Fine Injection Details
• Sold & Packaged as 2-Packs
• Realistic Loads by Hay Brothers 		• Crystal Clear Plastic, Stackable Cases
• Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks
• Blackened Metal wheels
• Knuckle Couplers 		• These Heap Shield Hoppers are based on prototypes created by Railroads around the early-20th Century. Because of the time and hand-work involved with the production of these Heap Shield Hoppers there will be very limited quantities!
ALL NEW!
A new body style, the 2600 Series! Heap Shields were an adjunct for smaller open hopper car ends, used to prevent spillage/waste from piled coal loads at stops and starts in mountainous areas or while hauling as fast freight. An economic asset, these peaked finials, conceived in the 19th century, found many USA Rail Lines, some exclusively, employing their use from the 1930's onward. Usually in an arched or angled form, during the mid 1940's an opening notch was often cut out to make access from end ladders into the car interior more accessible. This additional practice was popular and remained until 100-ton plus hoppers riding on double axle trucks made the Shield supplement moot.
N&W   •   Norfolk & Western
#FT-2601   N&W   2-Pack
• 33' 2-Bay Rib-Side Heap Shield Hoppers
  $52.00 retail ea. • $52.00 		Set #1: Road #N&W 85373, #85680 • May 2026
Set #1

$52.00
• Hay Brothers detailed loads
• Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks
• Blackened Metal wheels
• Knuckle Couplers
The Norfolk and Western Railway (NW), a.k.a. N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, its motto was "Precision Transportation"! Known as "King Coal," in 1986, N&W merged with Southern Railway to form today's Norfolk Southern Railway. The N&W was famous for manufacturing its own steam locomotives, built at the Roanoke Shops, as well as its own hopper cars. After 1960, N&W was the last major Class I railroad using steam locomotives. In 1959, the N&W merged with the Virginian Railway (VGN), a longtime rival in the Pocahontas coal region. By 1970, other mergers with the Nickel Plate Road and Wabash formed a system that operated 7,595 miles of road on 14,881 miles of track from North Carolina to New York and from Virginia to Iowa. In 1980, the N&W merged business with Southern Railway, to create the Norfolk Southern Corporation, while operating as separate railroads. In 1982, the Southern Railway was renamed as the Norfolk Southern Railway, and N&W to it's control.
Need specific load styles to suit your layout?     Hay Brothers produces many different and very realistic styles available separately.
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