#FT-3008   CoG • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $42.00 retail ea. • $42.00 Set #1: Road #21809, 21826 • February 2008 Set #2: Road #21822, 21837 • February 2008 Any 2-Pack $42.00 Set #1 $42.00 Set #2 $42.00 • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

This month, February 2008, is offered a CoG 33' Open Offset-Side 2-Bay Hopper.  This is a very short run of a Southern regional USA coal car, much needed in our Z Scale hobby. I know these will be very popular with our Southern Z Scale Hobbyists and collectors, as well as many other modelers.

#FT-3010C   Blue Coal • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $53.00 retail ea. • $53.00 Set #1: Road #RDG 82159, CNJ 10034 • March 2022 Set #2: Road #NH 51245, DLW 81466 • March 2022 Set #1 $53.00 Set #2   • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

One of the most unusual, and favorite collectibles from the Full Throttle archives is the 'blue coal' hopper. Not often, when I happen to see them for re-sale somewhere, they can be quite an expensive purchase! I've decided to make them available once again this month, Mar. '22, probably for the last time. My age and infirmities dictates that there will be no more runs ten years down the pike. Full Throttle pays tribute with 2-Bay "Billboard" Hoppers replete with the original 'blue coal' logo. Hay Bros. has created the realistic 'blue coal' loads.

From the late 1920s to the early 1950s, the Glen Alden Coal Co. of Ashley, PA, sprayed home-heating anthracite coal nuggets tumbling down the chutes of their huge, historic Huber Breaker, BLUE! An odd, but successful marketing ploy, 'blue coal' was known throughout the Northeastern USA due largely from advertising on popular Radio Shows, like "The Shadow." The prized and colorful commodity was hauled to silos, and distributors throughout the region by many different Rail Lines. Sadly, the entire complex at Ashley, PA no longer exists!

#FT-3037-S   PRSL • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hopper   $25.00 retail ea. • $25.00 Single: Road #17908 • December 2020 Sold exclusively at Zscale Monster Trains This is an exclusive supplement release available only at zscalemonster.com Single $25.00 Road #17908 This is an exclusive PRSL release sold only at zscalemonster.com. Build up your PRSL Hopper fleet with this special run.

During the 30's and 40's, the PRSL had a formidable fleet of Baldwin Steamers at it's disposal, and later in it's diesel hayday, a bevy of doodlebugs and RDCs for passenger traffic plus a swell collection of matching EMD GP-38s for both passenger and freight work. Passenger cars were usually supplied by the PRR, and could be seen on schedule heading, "down the shore!"

A Steam to Diesel Era hopper fleet, for PENNSYLVANIA~READING SEASHORE LINES. Responsible, year around, for hauling goods through Southern New Jersey to a rural population and during the summer, to throngs of beach-going communities, the PRSL, with it's up-to-date equipment, and dependable trackage, was reliable and an enjoyable ride for many.

• Realistic Loads by Hay Brothers • Fine Printing and Injection Details

• Blackened Metal Wheels • Knuckle Couplers

• FT's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Manufactured by Bowser Mfg.

#FT-3039   C&EI • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $44.00 retail ea. • $44.00 Set #1: Road #C&EI 97602, #97623 • July 2016 Set #2: Road #C&EI 97668, #97687 • July 2016 Any 2-Pack $44.00 Set #1 $44.00 Set #2 $44.00 • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (CEI) linked Chicago to Southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed strong throughout the Great Depression and two World Wars. After WWII, great effort was made to create a modern system to serve Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. The Missouri Pacific RR began buying C&EI shares in the early 1960s and gained control in 1967, with a requirement that part of the C&EI went to the Louisville and Nashville RR!  In 1976, MOPAC finally merged with C&EI and it's Western Routes are now part of the Union Pacific RR, while it's Eastern Routes are part of CSX. Full Throttle presents a pair of quite contemporary C&EI post-war coalers with loads created by Hay Brothers.

#FT-3041   Susquehanna   2-Pack • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $44.00 retail ea. • $44.00 Set #1: Road #NYSW 5261, #5605 • December 2016 Coal Loads Set #1 $44.00 • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway (NYSW) (a.k.a. Susie-Q or Susquehanna) is a Class II American freight railway operating over 500 miles of track in the Northeastern states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was formed in 1881 from the merger of several smaller railroads. Passenger service in Northern New Jersey was offered until 1966. Always an anthracite hauler, the railroad was purchased by the Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1980, and became a regional player in the intermodal freight transport business.  Here's a pair of 33' repainted Offset-Side hoppers with coal loads by Hay Brothers.

#FT-3041-S   Susquehanna   2-Pack • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $44.00 retail ea. • $44.00 Set #1: Road #NYSW 5261, #5605 • April 2022 Sand and Gravel Loads Set #S $44.00 • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

The New York, Susquehanna & Western Railway (NYSW) (a.k.a. Susie-Q or Susquehanna) is a Class II American freight railway operating over 500 miles of track in the Northeastern states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was formed in 1881 from the merger of several smaller railroads. Passenger service in Northern New Jersey was offered until 1966. Always an anthracite hauler, the railroad was purchased by the Delaware Otsego Corporation in 1980, and became a regional player in the intermodal freight transport business.  Here's a pair of 33' repainted Offset-Side hoppers with coal loads by Hay Brothers.

#FT-3044   CSX • 33' 2-Bay Offset-Side Hoppers   $46.00 retail ea. • $46.00 Set #1: Road #CSXT 630543, CSXT 630576 • April 2021 Set #2: Road #CSXT 630562, CSXT 630589 • April 2021 Set #1   Set #2 $46.00 • Hay Brothers detailed loads • Full Throttle's Bowser Buckler Trucks • Blackened Metal wheels • Knuckle Couplers

CSX inherited scads of Twin Hoppers from all it's mergers and acquisitions, scrapping the ratty ones and repainting the worthy carcasses, re-servicing them for the myriad valuable jobs along it's vast trackage! These models are perfect for small business spurs, or MoW work, as well as workhorses for short lines in almost all the States from North to South in the Eastern USA! I've equipped them with sand and gravel loads. CSX Transportation, one of our four primary National rail lines, serves 23 States in the Eastern USA and the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec with over 70 ocean, river and lake port terminals along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, the Mississippi R., the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. It's slogan is "How Tomorrow Moves," and it's name comes from the merger of the "C" Chessie and "S" Seaboard Rail Systems, with the "X" connoting "Consolidated." Both Chessie and Seaboard Systems had been comprised of mergers and acquisitions of all the major eastern USA rail lines, too numerous to mention! Not until 1987 did CSX have it's own identity and purchasing and painting of equipment could begin. In 1998, permission was granted to split-up the assets of CONRAIL (a government-owned corporation formed from the ailing NYC and PRR railroads) between CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads. Here offered, is a pair of always useful 2-bay hoppers, refurbished and repainted for CSX from the myriads inherited throughout it's long history.