Cement car rebuilds.

[doctorwayne]

Randy, Detail Associates offer a set of 8 square hatches to replace the round ones on the old MDC/Roundhouse covered hoppers. You could construct a roof from sheet styrene, then add the hatches and a roof walk to your open hoppers. Someone used to make a one-piece conversion for open hoppers (McKean, I think, had one for more modern 100 ton open hoppers), but the name escapes me at the moment. Varney (and later Lifelike) offered their 50 ton open hopper with a snap-in roof, with hatches and roofwalk cast integrally. I had a bunch of them but they went to Mister Nutbar. He may be able to provide a photo.

I built four of these Dominion boxcars converted for flux service. The roof hatches are the Detail Associates ones, while the rest of the car is scratchbuilt.


Wayne