N ACF4600 Covered Hoppers, BN #455990
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N ACF4600 Covered Hoppers, BN #455990

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PROTOTYPE AND BACKGROUND INFO:

The 3-bay Center Flow covered hopper first entered service in the mid-1960s, built by American Car and Foundry. The cars handle loads such as grain, corn and similar bulk commodities. The Center Flow design relies on the car’s rounded body to provide structural strength - eliminating the traditional center sill, and making gravity unloading easier.

Our 3-bay car represents the common 4600 cu.ft. capacity version. The railroads looking to replace their aging 40’ box cars in grain service needed a modern hopper design - one that could operate within the tighter Plate B clearances for light branchline and industrial service. ACF’s design won them many contracts from a plethora of railroads. One can find these cars still in revenue service today in grain trains and other similar service.

  • Three body styles offered, Early, Mid and Late
  • Round or trough hatches
  • Numerious detailed outlet versions

ACF 4600 HOPPER FEATURES:

  • Three body styles:
    • Early - High side ladder & brake wheel, single side stiffener
    • Mid - Low brake wheel, short side ladders both ends, single side stiffener
    • Late - As above but with double side stiffeners (post 1971)
  • Round or trough hatches
  • Photo-etched metal roofwalk
  • Detailed outlets
  • Separately applied brake wheel
  • Screw-mounted trucks
  • 100-ton trucks with 36” machined metal wheels
  • Body-mounted McHenry® operating scale knuckle couplers
  • Weighted for optimum performance
  • Accurately painted and printed
  • Highly-detailed, injection molded body
  • Minimum radius: 9¾”

PRIMED FOR GRIME MODELS FEATURE:

  • Duplicated look and feel of “In Service” equipment
  • Faded & dull-coated base colors matched to prototype
  • Perfect starting point for adding grime and rust

Product Specs

Axles
4
Coupler Style
McHenry Scale Knuckle
Era
1991-2009,2010-Present Day
Full Road Name
Burlington Northern
Minimum Radius
9.75"
Reporting Mark
BN
Scale
N
Sub Brand
GENESIS

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