Fox Valley Models 15032 HO Scale USRA 55-Ton 2-Bay Open Hopper Northern Pacific NP 70017 Pere Marquette - PM Some customers couldn’t handle or

Some customers couldn’t handle or didn’t need large shipments of the product

Late body with stiffener ribs and low brake wheel

With the oversized wheels on this aircraft you take of from many different terrain types

Die cast fuel tanks and underframe

Fox Valley Models 15032 HO Scale USRA 55-Ton 2-Bay Open Hopper Northern Pacific NP 70017 Pere Marquette - PM Some customers couldn’t handle orFox Valley Models 15032 HO Scale USRA 55 Ton 2 Bay Open Hopper Northern Pacific NP 70017 Beginning with steam locomotives, railroads needed a way to transport the black diamond of fuel: coal. While gondolas could do the job, specially designed cars were developed in the late 1800s to haul the commodity. As a result, coal hoppers would become one of the most numerous types of cars built. Their specific purpose was to bring coal from the mines to the