Description
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
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.
Product Specs
Details
Store Location: |
P# 237 / Aisle 10B |
Scale: |
N Scale |
Road Name: |
St. Mary's West (SMW) |
Road Number: |
815345 Primed For Grime |
Customer Reviews
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Athearn Genesis 1554 - ACF 4600 Covered Hopper St. Mary's West (SMW) 815345 Primed For Grime - N Scale
This Athearn Genesis "Primed for Grime" hopper, one of three in this latest Athearn production release, originally painted for The Rock, now lettered for SMW, is as good as it gets in N-scale! It's perfection in every way if you model The Rock or freight of our contemporary era. The molded and applied details are incredibly fine, as it the flawless paint job! I love the rusted etched metal roof walkway! It's much better than a solid blue or a bright shiny silver! Since it's primed for grime, feel free to weather it even more to your liking! Did I mention the car rolls incredibly smoothly and the coupling action is great too? It's an absolute beauty and easily rates Ten Stars out of Five!
