MTH 20-97759 O Gauge Maryland Midland 4-Bay Hopper w/ Coal Load #4022 ProductID_11425080 Model Number: 6-82718

Model Number: 6-82718

-Locomotive Speed Control In Scale MPH Increments

Produced in 1959 and 1960

highly detailed structure features steel sash vented windows

This is an MTH 20-66143 Amtrak 2-Car Amfleet Passenger Set

MTH 20-97759 O Gauge Maryland Midland 4-Bay Hopper w/ Coal Load #4022 ProductID_11425080 Model Number: 6-82718This car is likely the last hurrah of the bottom unloading coal hopper. Its prototype was built largely in the 1960s and 70s, just before the destinations for these cars mainly utility power plants and harbor side shipping facilities began switching to rotary unloading. While many of these cars survive in service today, newer coal cars are technically not hoppers at all. With trough like bottoms and no hopper doors, theyre actually high sided gondolas