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Bowser - 37953 - Open Hopper, 2-Bay, GLa - Delaware-Lackawanna - 81352

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Stock Number37953
Original Retail Price$19.95
BrandBowser
ManufacturerBowser
Body StyleBowser Open Hopper GLa-2
Prototype VehicleOpen Hopper, 2-Bay, GLa (Details)
Road or Company NameDelaware-Lackawanna (Details)
Reporting MarksDL&W
Road or Reporting Number81352
Paint Color(s)Blue
Print Color(s)Light Blue
Paint SchemeBlue Coal Fantasy
Coupler TypeGeneric Magnetic Knuckle
Coupler MountBody-Mount
Wheel TypeChemically Blackened Metal
Wheel ProfileStandard
Release Date2018-12-01
Item CategoryRolling Stock (Freight)
Model TypeOpen Hopper
Model Subtype2-Bay
Model VarietyGLa 2
Prototype RegionNorth America
Prototype EraNA Era II: Late Steam (1901 - 1938)
Scale1/160



Model Information: Bowser originally produced these models in kit form. However, all releases since 2007 or so are in Ready-To-Run (RTR) form. The kit form it included: a one piece plastic molded body, underframe, brake wheel, air reservoir, brake cylinder, control valve, X2f and McHenry KS couplers, plastic trucks/wheels and steel car weights.

This model comes in two variations: a vertical and a horizontal brake wheel. The ones with vertical brake wheels are delicate, so handle them with care. The plastic loads that come with the cars are low-to-mid grade quality and not up to the standards of the rest of this quite excellent car. Recent releases use high grade (MTL clone) body-mounted couplers and blackened metal wheels and are easily a nice value for their relatively low cost.
Prototype History:
In 1898, Pressed Steel Car Co. built the first all-steel hopper car designated the GL. The Pennsylvania Railroad would purchase several thousand of this design. Due to production backlogs at P.S.C.Co. and flaws in the initial design, the Penny came up with its own all-steel, bottom-discharge hopper car in 1904 designated the GLa. Approximately 30,000 GLa's were produced between 1904 and 1920. The Pennsy also built Gla's for numerous coal companies who were anxious for the well-built and reasonably priced cars. Until the 1960s, this design was one of the three most numerous classes of PRR freight cars. Although by this time, these cars began to rapidly disappear from the PRR roster, a few made it into the Penn Central and even Conrail rosters, lasting into the early 1980s.
Road Name History:
This busy 88 mile line was launched in 1993 by the Genesee Valley Transportation shortline group (not to be confused with Genesee & Wyoming.) The D-L consists of three routes radiating from Scranton, Pennsylvania. One is a former Delaware & Hudson line, one a former Delaware Lackawanna & Western line and the third is a former Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley route. Their locomotive fleet is a rolling museum of Alcos including RS32, RS11, C420, RS3 (in both long hood forward and short hood forward arrangements,) C424, C425, M630, and C636 models. The GVT group paint scheme is gray white and black but many D-L locomotives are in “heritage colors” including Erie Lackawanna colors (with D-L name) on some of the Centuries and D&H black and yellow (with D-L lettering) on several RS3’s. There are also at least two units with the full heritage treatment, a Lehigh Valley C420 and Jersey Central RS3.
Brand/Importer Information:
On May 1, 1961, Bowser was purchased by Lewis and Shirlee English and moved from Redlands, CA to their basement in Muncy, PA. The original Bowser Manufacturing Co first advertised in the model railroad magazines in November 1948. At that time, the company had only one (HO Scale) engine, the Mountain, which had a cast brass boiler that is no longer available. It was sometime later that Bowser (Redlands) developed the NYC K-11 and the UP Challenger. The molds were made by K. Wenzlaff who introduced himself at the MRIA Show in Pasadena, CA in 1985 These two locomotives are still current production.

Bowser entered into N Scale in 1998 with their acquisition of the Delaware Valley Car Company, a manufacturer of N scale freight cars.
Item created by: CNW400 on 2018-11-30 14:26:58. Last edited by CNW400 on 2020-05-26 10:58:44

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