Weathered Great
Northern |
Road # GN 73272 |
33'
Twin Bay Hopper w/Offset Sides |
Part #MTL-055 44 060 |
N Scale Supply Price |
New: Jan 2012 |
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This 33’ twin
bay hopper with offset sides is box car red with black and white
logo and white lettering. It was built in October 1931, serviced
in July 1950, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In 1931, the Standard
Steel Car Co. built 500 all-steel hopper cars for the Great Northern.
Hoppers of this series were serviced and repainted between 1948-1956
and kept their small sans serif lettering but received the new “Great
Northern Railway” herald in place of the “See America First…Glacier
National Park” herald. Hoppers of this era and series may have coexisted
with the 1970 birth of the BN in Cascade Green. The GN used hoppers
in revenue loading of coal, manganese and zinc concentrates, iron
ore, bauxite, sand gravel crushed rock and sugar beets. |
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