Chesapeake & Ohio 40' 50-Ton Drop Bottom Gondola - Ready to Run, HO Scale
These composite gondola (wood/steel) cars were rebuilt at the Raceland car shops in 1931. Car numbers were in the series 29500-29999 and orginially built by ACF in 1919 for Hocking Valley Railway as HV 12000-12499. See COHS - 47417 in the Archives. The build date on the model is wrong but is easily corrected.
The WalthersMainline HO Scale 40' 50-Ton Drop-Bottom Gondola is a model of the cars built with composite sides which used wood to conserve steel during WWI. Features of the WalthersMainline 40' 50-Ton Drop-Bottom Gondola include:
Limited Edition -- One Time Run of These Roadnumbers!
Based on USRA drop-bottom design updated with newer trucks and AB brakes
Moved coal, stone, steel and other loose loads
Composite sides used wood to save metal during WWI
Over 20,000 cars built for 25 railroads
Cast-in floor detail with non-operating drop bottom doors
Fully Assembled, Ready for Your Railroad
Correct 33" Turned-Metal Wheelsets
Proto MAX(TM) Metal Knuckle Couplers
Available in Three Road Numbers:
#29699
#29736
#29813
