40 hopper cars on the wall! 40 hopper cars!

[nkp_174]

I had actually completely forgotten about this thread. No real progress yet... Well, actually... None at all... I have been looking for good trucks, couplers, and such, and the hoppers themselves are of a highly unusual design.

I'm looking for a couple of pictures to show you, but I can't really find much of anything that shows the ends or inside.

Actually, they weren't unique at all. If you check out the Car Builder's Dictionaries and John H. White Jr's American Railroad Freight Car, you'll see that they were a common design.

If you really do attempt to build them all, you'd be far better served by investigating resin casting. I doubt you'll get very far with this as such a plan requires some focus...and we modelers usually can't maintain that for a tangent of this magnitude. Additionally, the proper tool for building such a fleet isn't a razor saw, but a NWSL Chopper. Rio Grande models makes some reasonably close trucks, but that would set you back $138, plus half that again for Kadee's (the standard HOn3 coupler).

Michael