Arrowhead Models HO ARR-1020-4 Rio Grande Committee Design Hopper #17534

About the Model:

Arrowhead’s Rio Grande Committee Design hopper consists of 167 parts per car. This family of hoppers are the most detailed, part intensive open hoppers in HO Scale. We have matched the specific details of the Bethlehem Steel built cars, including the obvious details, like: Wine gate appliances, Wine hand brake and brake layout, and less obvious details, like: the combination 1942-design hand brake and 1955-design brake wheel, the unique retaining and release rod configurations, and the Pullman defect card holder.

That’s right: everything down to the correct styles of defect card holders are accurately matched.

How does the Bethlehem Rio Grande model differ from our Pullman-Standard Penn Central model, you ask?

     70-ton ASF ‘Ride Control’ roller bearing trucks

     L-shaped AR/BL superior grab iron

     Wine double door locks

     Wine hopper doors and frames

     Miner 1942 handbrake

     Retaining valve location

     Retaining and release valve rods

     Brake rod and lever arrangements

     Bethlehem defect card holder

Additional Features:

70 individual injection molded parts per car, including: multi-part Miner double door hopper door locks, Miner hopper frames and gate doors, 4 piece Miner 1942 hand brakes (and check out the release lever!) 

10 individual etched brass parts per car, including: gate door L-braces, ABD valve and brake cylinder mounts.

49 individual wire parts per car, including: air lines, release and retaining valve rods, grab irons, train lines, brake lever hangers and more.

Kadee #156 couplers are factory equipped to each model. These whisker couplers are Kadee’s scale head. All couplers are installed into near scale draft boxes.