Dash 8 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Where is the coal car, I've been waiting a couple of years. This will certainly be a good model. But when ? 3 bay Hopper Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman4449 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 That will be a good looking coal car. I haven't heard anything as far as status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 and you thought MTH was slow....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash 8 Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 23 hours ago, Dash 8 said: Ok I understand, but who is MTH ??? Is that the company which builds nothing except to large locomotives.Joking aside, I have copied the text of ams Accucraft uk. Are there pictures on the net, or is there only one ? I can not find anything, or are they all scrapped ? The open hoppers accurately represent a group of 3-bay cars built by Bethlehem Steel Corp. for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. C&O obtained 1000 cars in series 105000-105999, constructed on builder’s Lot # DF-152, between January and March 1951. The cars have a rated capacity of 2622 cu. ft., measure 40’ 8” inside length, and 41’ 9 3/4” over strikers. The model is developed directly from the builder’s General Arrangement drawings. Cars decorated for the Virginian Railway will not be 100% accurate. However, the 3-bay hopper can still serve as fine ‘stand-in’ model, particularly for those interested in operating coal trains behind their Virginian edition 2-6-6-6 “Allegheny”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I would bet any hopper that old would have to be at a museum. It has the Bethlehem steel markings on her side. I bet there pics somewhere on the web? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 http://www.lionel.com/products/bethlehem-steel-hopper-6-16454/ well I thought it would be closer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I maybe very wrong about what happens to old hoppers! http://conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/ConrailEquipment/FreightCars/Hoppers/3Bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 http://www.cohs.org/history/freight.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash 8 Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 Thank you, I searched for 9 panel Hopper ...but i'm not sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Wow. Those are some of the older cars that I've seen. I'm not very good with some of this. The real train guys on some sites may be the best at finding these. You did better than I could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Look at the smaller hopper on the fourth row up of cars and to the far right in this pic ( from the C&O car order of these by Accucraft?) http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=325065 it should look like this one does http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=294092 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 On 8/11/2016 at 3:31 PM, Dash 8 said: Where is the coal car, I've been waiting a couple of years. This will certainly be a good model. But when ? 3 bay Hopper Thank you They're in queue along with the N&W J, NYC Dreyfuss Hudson, GP60's & 50' HyCube Boxcars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash 8 Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 Yes, it looks like, but if you have a allegheny purchased, you also need 20-30 coal hopper, a repeat business, small risk. I think ams builds the hopper before the stuff in 1/29 PR C&O 3-bay Hopper 2014-23-06_EURO.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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