MTH 20-97759 O Gauge Maryland Midland 4-Bay Hopper w/ Coal Load #4022 ProductID_11425080 Trainz Product Id: 12185050

Trainz Product Id: 12185050

Trainz Product Id: 11962206

prime mover sounds through all eight notches

The Bloody nose Phase I paint scheme adorned the first batch of these locomotives when they were built in 1973

Old corner shop with crumbling plaster yet the personal charm of a small store selling food and everyday goods

MTH 20-97759 O Gauge Maryland Midland 4-Bay Hopper w/ Coal Load #4022 ProductID_11425080 Trainz Product Id: 12185050This 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