Product Information:
Road Numbers: 505591, #505745, #506069
Add a staple of the coal industry to your HO Scale railroad with WalthersMainline 50' Bethgon Coalporter Gondolas. Prototypes for this freight car remains a common sight, running in unit trains across the North American rail network. Built by Bethlehem Steel's Johnstown American Corporation, the Bethgon features all-aluminum construction and a unique trough-style bottom for added carrying capacity. Because there are no discharge chutes on the bottom of the car, these cars are unloaded strictly by rotary dump.
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Available as single cars or in convenient three-packs with three different roadnumbers, features of the Bethgon Coalporter Gondola include:
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- Appropriate for layouts set in the 1970s to present day
- Crisply printed graphics and legible stencils on car sides and ends
- Individually molded and applied internal bracing
- Scale 36" diameter turned metal wheels
- Proto MAX(TM) Metal Knuckle Couplers
- Add your own custom load with Chooch Flexible coal loads, available separately
- Perfect for use with the Cornerstone Rotary Dumper (933-4170), sold separately
