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70 ton PS-2 Two Bay Covered Hopper

Prototypical Features: • Accurate printing and paint schemes you have     come to expect from Micro-Trains® • Air Tanks • Fine Details • Truck Mounted Couplers • Magne-Matic Knuckle Couplers • Detailed brake wheel applied separately • Nicely Weighted • Jewel Case

(Reprint) Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

#MTL-531 00 073   ATSF   • Released February 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 073 #82657 #531 00 074 #82864 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957 for ATSF, these 2,006 cubic-foot capacity hoppers have a 77-ton capacity. Small, two-bay hoppers were often used for relatively dense commodities, such as cement powder, sand, potash, and other fine-grained materials and usually had a similar loaded weight to larger and longer cars.

Burlington Northern

#MTL-531 00 261   BNSF   • Released September 2016   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 261 #BNSF 407130 #531 00 262 #BNSF 407172 These 2-bay covered hoppers are mineral brown with white lettering and run on Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1954 as part of series 407053-407208 these cars were designed to allow railroads to deliver smaller quantities of goods more economically than with larger cars. With the merger of BN and Santa Fe, BNSF acquired a large fleet of these cars.

Southern Pacific

#MTL-531 00 271   Southern Pacific   • Released December 2017   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 271 #SP 402245 #531 00 272 #SP 402280 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with yellow lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Southern Pacific was a large Class 1 railroad that existed from 1865 to 1998 and operated from the West coast to the Midwest through many states. Through a series of mergers, SP was absorbed by Union Pacific in the late 1990s.

Missouri Pacific

#MTL-531 00 281   Missouri Pacific   • Released March 2018   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 281 #MP 706101 #531 00 282 #MP 706105 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1969 as part of series 706100-706299 these cars were capable of carrying 100 tons and had two outlets.

Cotton Belt

#MTL-531 00 291   Cotton Belt   • Released July 2019   $26.95 retail ea. • $21.56 #531 00 291 #SSW 77196 #531 00 292 #SSW 77199 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Roller Bearing Trucks. Built in 1957 as part of series 77100-77199, their 2003 cubit foot capacity has a load limit of 169,000 pounds.

Pennsylvania & PRR

#MTL-531 00 321   PRR   • Released February 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 321 #257912 #531 00 322 #257971 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1957 by Pullman-Standard’s Butler, Pennsylvania Shops, these H34C class hoppers were 2,003 cubic-feet in capacity. These cars were primarily used for dense granular commodities, such as cement and certain grains.

Chessie System & CSX

#MTL-531 00 331   CSX   • Released February 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 331 #226539 #531 00 332 #226482 These 2-bay covered hoppers are yellow with blue herald and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1968 by Pullman-Standard for Baltimore & Ohio, these hoppers have a 2,700 cubic-foot capacity and were used primarily for dense granular commodities like cement. They were later rolled into Chessie System, and later, CSX.

FRISCO

#MTL-531 00 341   FRISCO   • Released April 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 341 #85238 #531 00 342 #85266 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Barber Roller Bearing trucks. Built in 1966, they were used for high density powered and granular commodities, like cement and sand. The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, or “Frisco,” was founded in 1876 and was absorbed by Burlington Northern in 1980.

Penn Central & PC

#MTL-531 00 351   Penn Central   • Released April 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 351 #877145 #531 00 352 #877242 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built for Pennsylvania Railroad in 1955 this car belonged to class H34b. Repainted in 1968 after the formation of Penn Central, the car lasted another 20 years before being scrapped.

Milwaukee Road

#MTL-531 00 361   Milwaukee Road   • Released April 2021   $25.95 retail ea. • $20.76 #531 00 361 #99619 #531 00 362 #99633 These 2-bay covered hoppers are grey with black lettering and run on Bettendorf trucks. Built in 1954, these 70-ton PS2 hopper were used to transport cement and other high density powered and granular commodities. Serviced in the mid-1960s, and the new “billboard scheme” applied, they were used until the 1980s.

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