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              | Weathered Great 
                Northern | Road # GN 73272 |   | 33' 
Twin Bay Hopper w/Offset Sides |   |   
                      | Part #MTL-055 44 060 | N Scale Supply Price  |   
                      | New: Jan 2012 |  |  
      
 
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            | This 33’ twin 
              bay hopper with offset sides is box car red with black and white 
              logo and white lettering. It was built in October 1931, serviced 
              in July 1950, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In 1931, the Standard 
              Steel Car Co. built 500 all-steel hopper cars for the Great Northern. 
              Hoppers of this series were serviced and repainted between 1948-1956 
              and kept their small sans serif lettering but received the new “Great 
              Northern Railway” herald in place of the “See America First…Glacier 
              National Park” herald. Hoppers of this era and series may have coexisted 
              with the 1970 birth of the BN in Cascade Green. The GN used hoppers 
              in revenue loading of coal, manganese and zinc concentrates, iron 
              ore, bauxite, sand gravel crushed rock and sugar beets. |  Back to N Scale 
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