If you decide to do the decals, I bet he can get enough for six hoppers on a single sheet.
On the economic class warfare front, how would a USA- made brass hopper of limited production trigger that?
And what about Max Gray? I will look, but I think he did a peaked end two-bay hopper, and his cars go for around $85. - about the same as the latest plastic cars?
And this is opinion: okay to put Lionel trucks and couplers on a Max Gray, but blasphemy to cut them to make inaccurate trucks and couplers fit. Again, opinion - you own it, you can mess it up if you want.
