Bethlehem 3483 hopper series#

I show just a single example below, one of a great many superb Bill Price photos from his book, Western Maryland Steam Album (published by the Potomac chapter, NRHS, 1985). Innumerable photos show this appearance, though the WM was a hard-working railroad hauling mostly coal. HO Scale: Coal Loads - Bethlehem 3483 Hopper ExactRail 3.99 4. Roundhouse employees wiped down engine jackets and tenders with kerosene between runs. One reason in steam days was the pride of WM employees, revealed in so many ways, perhaps most visibly in the clean locomotives and tenders.

Road logo is still looking good on this Bethlehem 3483 cuft quad hopper.

Bethlehem 3483 hopper series#

Now in one sense, the WM was just another small railroad, but to many, it was a railroad that stood out beyond its size. The cars were empty hoppers and center beam cars so there were no issues with. I have a Brand New Exact Rail Platinum Series Burlington Northern Bethlehem 3483 Hopper Car 524487 in box. One of the roads with significant off-line traffic was the Western Maryland. This latter post in particular goes into the reasons that eastern coal hoppers may appear on my layout.One can of course choose whatever eastern coal roads one wishes, but in fact some coal roads had far more off-line traffic than others, generally through brokers, compared to the roads whose coal traffic was heavily slanted to export coal piers. As of 4.14.16 with each Bethlehem 3483 Hopper purchased you will receive 2 different coal load styles We think that these hand shaped loads are some of the most accurate representations of flood and heap style coal loads available. ) And in fact, I had written more about that topic in an earlier post about coal traffic, and here is that link also. There certainly was some traffic of that kind, as I showed in a post awhile back, but not a great deal of it. West Coast modelers like me have minimal needs for hopper cars, at least for carrying coal.