07-25-2011, 07:12 PM
Up til the 40's a LOT of cement was shipped in 100 pound bags loaded into regualr boxcars.
I need lots of covered hoppers for my mid-50's era, unfortunately the ones I need weren;t offered by anyone as a kit that I am aware of, since the prototype was pretty much a 'kit' itself, the railroad adding roofs to 55 ton open hoppers. There's an old MR article that shows how to build them, but that's going to be a huge project to make about a dozen of them. I know nothing of molding and casting, maybe I should learn - build one roof assembly and cast the rest. Bowser had a kit of a slightly newer one, but I think they came with 1957 BLT dates on them, which is a year past my cutoff.
--Randy
I need lots of covered hoppers for my mid-50's era, unfortunately the ones I need weren;t offered by anyone as a kit that I am aware of, since the prototype was pretty much a 'kit' itself, the railroad adding roofs to 55 ton open hoppers. There's an old MR article that shows how to build them, but that's going to be a huge project to make about a dozen of them. I know nothing of molding and casting, maybe I should learn - build one roof assembly and cast the rest. Bowser had a kit of a slightly newer one, but I think they came with 1957 BLT dates on them, which is a year past my cutoff.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
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Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com