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Estimated Delivery Date Is: Summer 2026
Product Information:
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. Available as single cars or in convenient three-packs with three different roadnumbers, features of the Bethgon Coalporter Gondola include:
- 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