American Z Line is pleased to announce the immediate availability of our ACF 4-bay Hoppers. Built in the early 1970s by ACF® to haul plastics and different types of granular commodities, AZL’s model represents the post-1971 version of the ACF® 5250 4-Bay Covered Hopper Car that was used by railroads and private shippers across North America. Our first release is for the chemical and vinyl trade. The FPCX (Oxy Vinyls LP) Hopper comes packaged as a single car (AZL 91701-1) in our standard acrylic case: FPCX 70093 and as a 4 pack (AZL 90701-1) with road numbers: FPCX 70038, 70042, 70045, and 70053. This is a limited production with only 75 of each released. Standard features include detailed, multi-color pad printing, Blackened metal wheels, and AZL’s AutoLatch(sm) automatic couplers. These cars have been shipped to our distributors and are now available. Please contact your dealer for pricing. For more information, see our web site www.AmericanZLine.com
Busy production schedule! I have a repaint request: How about a set of Bombardiers painted for the Florida Tri-rail? You might think only SoFlo people would be a market, but you would be wrong. With the palm trees on them, many vacationers like to get a set as a "souvenir" of their visit to SoFlo, and the folks at Ready-to-Roll Train store in Miami get requests for Tri-Rail sets all the time from all across the country. When MTH produced the Tri-Rail passenger cars in O gauge, instant sellout, and now a set goes for multiples of their original purchase price, if you can find one! Tri-Rail (the 1:1 company) even sells the HO versions on their website. Since AZL Bombardiers are already in production, perhaps only a reprogram of the AZL paint machine would be required to make them happen!
Sumgai is right. If your product status is uptodate this year is going to end pretty expensive for me. Will the next run of 4 Bays be the in Ztrack announced Rio Grande? Mattias
Sigh... these look nicer then any ACF 5250 currently in the N scale market. I don't suppse I can convince AZL to produce an ANL product line?
We have received the cars tonight. They are great! It is always fun to see all new tooling in Z scale. We will begin shipping to dealers tomorrow. Below is another image of the car. The fine printing is amazing! Rob
