There is a good article in the current issue of the S Scale Resource including lots of pictures on how to convert a hopper to other road names and replacing the troublesome scale trucks.
Mark
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There is a good article in the current issue of the S Scale Resource including lots of pictures on how to convert a hopper to other road names and replacing the troublesome scale trucks.
Mark
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Mark,
That is one great looking car. The author did a nice job on painting and decals. Looks just like the prototype! I wonder which other prototype road names there were from that era.
Thanks for sharing!
Mike A.
"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
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:
The one and only CN rainbow car:
DaveB, Not sure about O, but it was one of the first run of S hoppers that they came out with. Although, as you pointed out, it should have had four bays instead of three.
Mike A.
"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
New member here. Recently switched to S scale after years in N. My layout got too big and trains too small
Anyway, banjoflyer, here's a link to prototype photos of the Katy cylindrical hopper in red.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/mkt/bkty1009abp.jpg
and a link to the same type of hopper in John Deere green.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/mkt/bkty1010abp.jpg
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
Welcome to the S Forum, Katyfan!
Rusty
Just for grins, I found what appears to be a builder's photo of another early cylindrical hopper with the platforms:
And I was wrong about the AHM HO car, it was a model of one of these:
Rusty
The ALASKA Rail Road scheme needs to be factory applied on the Lionel model since it is a nearly identical ACF CENTER FLOW 3-bay cylindrical hopper.
Andrew
I find the Cyl. Hopper story in the Dec/Jan 2014 issue.
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