MTH 30-75471 O Erie 4-Bay Hopper DwDetails-7.20-5.50-18.00-8.00-6.00-1 Road Name: Central Michigan (CMGN)

Road Name: Central Michigan (CMGN)

Locomotive Weight: TBA

This locomotive features a 5-pole skewed armature motor with dual flywheels

Trainz Product Id: 12157762

Trainz Product Id: 12308708

MTH 30-75471 O Erie 4-Bay Hopper DwDetails-7.20-5.50-18.00-8.00-6.00-1 Road Name: Central Michigan (CMGN)Until the advent of the covered hopper, bulk commodities like grain and cement were packed in sacks and loaded into boxcars. Loading and unloading was a tedious, time consuming affair. In the 1930s, a few railroads took the basic coal hopper design and added a roof with loading hatches, enabling bulk commodities to be loaded from the top and unloaded from the bottom. In 1953, Pullman Standard's 70 ton PS 2 became the first mass produced covered hopper