Lionel's NEW 4bay hopper car..Show some of your favorite 4 bay cars

No 4 bays but I have several 3 bay, recently finished putting together a BNSF grain train. Great looking pieces everyone!

Surefire Very nice looking BNSF Grain train. Looked like about 16 hopper cars and a couple of different styles. I like the new ABQ that you have. TWD did a nice job on them. Also see the new Lionel transformer very nice.

Thank you! You are correct, 16 hoppers. 

Not aluminum, but here are some more.

PS-2's (These were awesomely detailed by Lionel):

Cylindrical:

2 Bay:

joe

Joe your Cylindrical HOPPERS ARE OUTSTANDING!!! Wow hope that one of the mfg's will produce all those Cylindrical Hoppers in 4 BAY. Thank you for sharing.

thanks, it took a long time to find all variations but they are some of my favorites and make a beautiful unit train led by a CN dash 9.

here are the others:

joe

WOW Joe you have many many of my favorute RR and color schemes. DID you find them in LHS or on dabayor a combo? I would like to find the green one in your other post above andthe nice CP Rail in black. Thanks again for posting your great collection of Drain cars.

over several years i found almost all at Greenberg shows or on ebay, the last one just a couple of months ago.  All of those that were only produced once by Lionel, including the green one, are hard to come by, especially the older ones produced around 2002-2005.  Maybe the hardest one to find is the Saskatchewan Grain 17189 Brown/Orange one but i will give you a lead that there is one on ebay right now.  This is one of my favorites of the group.

I wish this one would be produced in O scale (i posted this pic before in your CN thread)

joe

also, the CP grain train that Lionel released around 2005 contained most of these.  It still goes for a premium but would be a great way to grab a bunch in one shot and included one with an EOT device.

joe

The Lionel cars are quite nice. Drelo, I was curious about your Santa Fe ACF -- is that the one from the latest catalogue, and have they shipped? That's one I could use.

The four-bay ACF cars are not actually grain cars. These are usually used for plastics and other materials (though I admit to having cheated and and used a few of my Weaver four-bays to pad out grain trains too).

Here is my BNSF earthworm grain train:



By the ATSF is my true favorite, and here is a westbound grain train:

Rich,

Can you please tell me the manufacturer and perhaps product number for the gray GATX hopper in your BNSF video?

thanks

joe

Detail shots of the Lionel PS2.  Right-click and open-in-new-window to view them larger:

SB,

that is a beautiful car.  it is on my wish list, along with this one:

joe

Rich aia hsve always seen Rice come in the 100 ton 4 bay cylindrical hoppers

Rich, it is item number 6-27490 from the 2012 volume 2 catalog.

Just an FYI: The actual production car is quite different than lionel's catalog pic.  It's grey and has the wheat on it.  Still very nice.  Here is a pic Atlas L and Lionel R:

Good Day,

Any pictures of the Lionel CSX 4-Bay Hopper model number 6-27071?

Regards,

Swafford

thanks, even better

Joe did you get any of these 4 bay hoppers?