Full Throttle Z FTCOL58 Cylindrical Hopper Set #1, American Chemicals (2-Pack)

After WWII, American Car and Foundry (ACF) designed a tank-type “Center Flow” covered hopper car to carry “modern” products. Here was a “Freight Car for the Future,” ready to transport sugar, cement, sand, salt, fertilizers, many types of grains, coke, starch, feeds, chemicals, and plastics!

W.R. Grace and Co. is an American chemical business based in Columbia, Maryland. Grace Catalysts Technologies makes catalysts used in petrochemical, refining, and other chemical manufacturing. Grace Materials and Chemicals makes specialty materials, including silica-based and silica-alumina-based materials used in pharmaceutical/consumer, coatings, and chemical processing. In September 2021, Standard Industries acquired the company.

The Cumberland Chemical Corporation, a subsidiary of the Air Reduction Company, produces a series of vinyl resins that offers superior gloss, color and clarity in vinyl plastics.