Description
Our 3-bay car represents the common 4600 cu.ft. capacity version. The railroads looking to replace their aging 40' box cars in grain service needed a modern hopper design - one that could operate within the tighter Plate B clearances for light branchline and industrial service. ACF's design won them many contracts from a plethora of railroads. One can find these cars still in revenue service today in grain trains and other similar service.
FEATURES:
Three body styles:
Early - High side ladder & brake wheel, single side stiffener
Mid - Low brake wheel, short side ladders both ends, single side stiffener
Late - Low brake wheel, short side ladders both ends, double side stiffeners (post 1971)
Round or trough hatches
Photo-etched metal roofwalk
Detailed outlets
Multiple roadnumbers
Separately applied brake wheel
Screw mounted trucks
100-ton trucks with 36" machined metal wheels
Body-mounted McHenry operating scale knuckle couplers
Weighted for optimum performance
Fully-assembled and ready-to-run out of the box
Accurately painted and printed
Highly-detailed, injection molded body
Minimum radius: 9-3/4"