MTH 20-97776 O 4-Bay Hopper, IC ProductID_11395889 Trainz Product Id: 12373356

Trainz Product Id: 12373356

Model Number: 6-21193

gears and axles

Features include: DCC On Board

MTH 20-97776 O 4-Bay Hopper, IC ProductID_11395889 Trainz Product Id: 12373356This 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