FT1065 SOUTHERN "Big John" 2-pack #1 (1 Aluminum & 1 Steel Cylindrical Hopper)

Description

FULL THROTTLE - "BIG JOHN" Cylindrical Hoppers Set #1 ... 2-pack (1 Aluminum & 1 Black Cylindrical Hopper)
2-pack
Road Numbers: SOU 6038 & SOU 6173 (Note: These roadnumbers may differ from those in photos)
History:
What's a
"Big John?"
SOUTHERN
had a fleet of
very large multi-colored, covered grainers
to which they named
"Big Johns!"
ACF 51', three-compartment cylindricals
are
apropos
to represent a large grainer on smaller home-style layouts!  In each set,
one model is an
Aluminum
hopper painted with red lettering and the other, a
Steel
car pained black with bright orange lettering.  A great addition to the
FT
collection of unusual freight cars for the
Z Scale
hobbyist!
A
"must"
for
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
runners and those who run southern
USA
RR Lines.
After
WWII
,
American Car and Foundry
(
ACF
) designed a tank-type
"Center Flow"
covered hopper car to carry
"modern"
products. Here was a
"Freight Car for the Future,"
ready to transport sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals and plastics!
The
Southern Railway
(
SOU
) was the product of
150
predecessor lines that were combined and reorganized in the
1830
s, formally becoming the
Southern Railway
in
1894
. From
dieselization
and
shop/yard modernization
, to
computers
and the development of
special cars
, the
unit coal train
and
Radio Controlled Mid-Train Helper Locomotives
,
Southern
was often on the cutting edge of change, earning the catch phrase,
"Southern Gives a Green Light to Innovation."
Southern
and it's subsidiaries covered and serviced nearly the entire southern portion of the
USA
with freight and passenger traffic! In response to the creation of
CSX
in
1980
, the
Southern Railway
merged with
Norfolk and Western Railway
to form the
Norfolk Southern Railway
in
1982
, further consolidating railroads in the eastern half of our Nation.
NEW - FROM AN AUTHORIZED FULL-THROTTLE RETAILER
These models are equipped with FULL THROTTLE couplers, trucks and metal wheelsets.
PLEASE NOTE: This item is a scale model and is intended for use with Z scale model trains. It is not an operating item that you can use on your farm/ranch/homestead. These are 1/220 scale models. This item is not for use by children under the age of 14.
If you do not understand the concept of scale, or if you have any other questions please do hesitate to ask.
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