Ford 2-Pack Set #2

33' Ribside Hopper  2-Pack

Ford

Betriebsnummern # 1806, 1827

Jeder Waggon ist mit einer unterschiedlichen Ladung von Hay Bros. Garage beladen.

The largest self-sufficient, integrated automobile factory in the world was created by Henry Ford in 1928 at Michigan's FORD RIVER ROUGE COMPLEX. Literally, in one end came raw materials and out the other, drove autos! There were over 100 miles of track in the facility alone, the hoppers painted yellow to signify that they had to run on FORD trackage and couldn't be interchanged. Meanwhile, the American FORD hopper fleet, painted in a customary black livery, was busy hauling coal, ores and all sorts of rocks, minerals and salts back to The ROUGE! Eventually, FORD built other less intensive, yet diversified plants around the country to aid in building many different styles of automotive transportation, and the hopper gang was fractured to serve many parts of the USA. Here's a pair of the American FORD hoppers with limestone loads crafted by Hay Bros.