30-75793 NORTH POLE CYLINDRICAL COVERED HOPPER W/ CHRISTMAS LIGHTS-O QuickBooks Body-mounted magnetic knuckle couplers

Body-mounted magnetic knuckle couplers

5-pole skew-wound motor

The Walthers SceneMaster Dry Bulk Trailer is an HO Scale replica of trailers which are common sights on highways and in industrial areas

Classic operating accessories bring any tinplate layout to life and these easy-to-wire and fun to use accessories are no exception

30-75793 NORTH POLE CYLINDRICAL COVERED HOPPER W/ CHRISTMAS LIGHTS-O QuickBooks Body-mounted magnetic knuckle couplersUntil the advent of the covered hopper, bulk commodities like grain and cement were packed in sacks and loaded into boxcars. Loading and unloading was a tedious, time consuming affair. In the 1930s, a few railroads took the basic coal hopper design and added a roof with loading hatches, enabling bulk commodities to be loaded from the top and unloaded from the bottom. In 1953, Pullman Standards 70 ton PS 2 became the first mass produced covered hopper