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Unfortunately none of the mass producers of 3-rail made any prototypically correct 2-bay H9 and/or HL hoppers.  I am only aware of Yoder making them in brass at as I recall $300.00 a pop!

Now MTH has made 2-bay hoppers that are reasonably close.  MTH marker them as HL's.  Roanoke between 1949 and 1952 rebuilt the approximate 12,200 surviving hoppers into the H9 class.

Here is a snap of one of these MTH hoppers.

If you look for these keep in mind that MTH made them as pictured and also with the "hamburger" herald.  BUT the hamburger herald did not come into use until 1964, long after the steam fires had been dumped.

Ron

PRRronbh posted:
bluelinec4 posted:

The atlas h21 4 bay hopper would be correct but not the mth 4 bay as they are too new.  Atlas did 8 numbers of the h21 in n&w

Now the H21's were actually Pennsy hoppers leased from the Pennsy!

Yes they were.   And they would be right at home behind a class a.  Virginian had a number of them too.  Atlas also did them in that scheme

RickO posted:

I believe that video from 87 was a break in run for 1218 prior to excursion service.

Probably right.

Heres "steam era" video of   a N&W  coal drag. I  think there are two "A"s on the point:

Helper locomotive on the point is a Y6b, while the road locomotive is a Class A. The pusher on the rear end is another Y class. Also note ALL the 2-bay N&W loaded hoppers.

 

 

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