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"I'm not sure if these examples are perfect matches for the Lionel car but they do give some perspective as to which roads ran these type of hoppers'

 

   That MoPac car looks like it has different end ladders. Maybe a rebuild after a wreck? Atlas O made these same cars in O scale years ago, with both the 3 outlet and a 6 outlet style....DaveB

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Thanks, Mark and DaveB for the pictures.

 

It's really too bad that Lionel chose not to do the NYC car.  I really like the look.  They even mentioned it in one of their blogs as being the first one done in the US. 

 

I think the Canadian cars are pretty sweet, too, even though there is only one prototype of the rainbow cars.

 

Mike A.

 

Here's a photo of the NYC prototype from the article you referenced above:

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The one and only CN rainbow car:

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"The chemical formula on the car side is OCN(CH2)6NCO and describes what the car carried...Hexamethylene diisocyanate."

 

   Interesting that this one off car keeps getting produced, sorta like the old Jones and Laughlin tank cars that seemed to be copied over and over although they were relatively rare on real trains nationwide....DaveB

Originally Posted by daveb:

 

   That MoPac car looks like it has different end ladders. Maybe a rebuild after a wreck? ...DaveB

 

 

The MoPac hopper is an early version of the cylindrical hopper.  I recall seeing one rolling through Soo Line's Schiller Park yard back in the 80's.  That's the only place I saw one, they seem to have been pretty rare.

 

AHM made a model of it in HO way back in the 60's.

 

Rusty

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