C&NW ex-Rock Island Covered Hoppers HO Limited Run

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There's only 21 cars left on our shelves. They've been around for a while, and although we love the cars, it's time to move them out. So, we're offering our customer a 10% discount on the original retail price. By a car for $28.76 rather than $31.95. And if you want all six road numbers, we'll give you an additional 10% off the sixth car. So instead of a full price of $191.70, you get six well-detailed, ready to run grain hoppers for $169.65. The economy has been very poor and our car sales ahve been hurt. We need to pare down out inventory to generate capital for new projects. So if you want to see new models from the Amarillo Rairolad Museum, please consider helping us out. The C&NW picked up over 1600 ex-Rock Island covered hoppers built by United States Railroad Equipment Supply, Pullman Standard, and Thrall. Of these, a little over 1000 were built by Pullman Standard and renumbered into three series;88,78, and85. A large number of these cars were quickly renumbered from their original Rock Island series and given a minimal paint job that consisted of marking out the original Rock Island markings with white paint, applying the new C&NW series numbers and a small C&NW herald. Many are still found today in this patchwork scheme. The extent of the patchwork varied among the cars, but it always presented a sharp contrast to the read more

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