Beth Marshall-The Public Delivery Track posted:...snip... I have a few old the old ones built up here, with actual woodchip loads that someone went to all the trouble to do, and about a dozen of the original kits, unbuilt. I dont put the old kits up for sale cause who would want to have to put them together.
At some point in time Weaver did include a pack of "sawdust" with the kits. A couple of the kits referred to in the below quote had those packs included.
PRRMP54 posted:They were first released in the mid 1980s. I was still living in Baltimore and remember as I and a friend bought a few and did not add the side/end "extensions" so we could use them as two-bay hoppers. The Weaver wood chip car was a regular two-bay rib-side hopper with rib-side extensions glued onto the top of the regular hopper sides. Now I think that I should have saved the non-used extensions to make some shorty traction gondolas.
