Bachmann HO 70-Ton UP Quad-Hopper with EZ-Mate Couplers Road #518125

Description

We try to be Friendly to our international customers especially with our: UPS Standard to Canada, USRA design 70 ton open top hopper is a car that wasn't produced under the USRA time of control, however The C&O, New York Central and Virginian Railroads adopted the design and had cars built by Standard Steel shops in Butler PA between 1922 and 1927 T o see all our listings, Visit: Ika's Train Store Open-top hoppers are used for handling bulk commodities that are impervious to weather conditions. The bottom section consists of divided hoppers (3 or 4 compartments) with gates or doors. Some open-tops are equipped with rotary couplers, which allow the car to be turned over for rapid unloading. Various cubic footage and weight capacities up to 110 tons are available. These cars carry products like coal, coke, aggregates, sand, ores, gravel, slag and scrap. Product type, density and loading/unloading requirements will determine which car is best suited for your needs. Year of Manufacture that is painted on the side of the freight car is a representative number of the actual freight car; not a date of the train model being made. That being said, the information on the side of the car was the actual freight capacity etc of the real freight car. Build date and the "new" dates were actually maintenance dates that the freight yard maintenance crews would stencil onto the freight cars. Data displayed near the reporting marks refers to the weight of a freight car and its contents. The black rectangular area on freight cars is known as the consolidated stencil. It's here that maintenance information on the air-brake system and journal bearings, and the built-date, must be displayed. This area has been simplified and reduced in size in recent years, and many cars' stencils are in the older format. Accompanying the light weight marking "LT WT" is a date indicating when the railroad or owner last verified the car's weight. The letters for this mark are not always reporting marks; sometimes a location code is used. NEW and a date indicates that the weight shown is the car's as-built weight, and that it hasn't been field-checked since. The "Consolidated Stencil" was imposed by the F.R.A. {Federal Railroad Administration founded in 1966} as a railroad regulation in 1974, so all rolling freight was required to have a whole list of information stenciled onto the cars; some railroads had been doing this in an informal manner prior to 1974. ABD is the type of brake equipment found on the car. The ABDW brake valve is a modification of the ABD, which is descended from the AB of 1933. LUB (lubricated, for roller bearings) or RPKD (repacked, for plain bearings) heads the journal-bearing maintenance column. NO means that the car has NFL bearings, which require no field lubrication. If the journals need to be serviced, the date and location of the work, as well as the interval until the next servicing, are shown. A designation of BLT 7-67 would mean the car was built in July 1967. When a car is rebuilt, REBLT and the month and year are shown. ** Railroad Equipment Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase and would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4-business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday, it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it. If you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund. For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. The most economical way for you to buy multiple items from us is for you to send us a list of the items you want to buy. Do not purchase them as they are listed!! (This leads to higher than necessary fees & shipping.) Send us a complete list of all the items you want. Then we will cancel the listings for the items and turn them into a special listing just for you (We'll send you the listing named before making it active). It will have your full purchase with the correct shipping box size and weight. This saves you on the international fees & shipping.