Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Rosters

[richtownsend@netscape.net]

Thanks, Ken.  Let this be a lesson to all you young people out there.  Don't 
try to model off of equipment diagrams.  You will be misled.  

So I won't be using the Accurail Canton hopper.  Maybe the old AHM quad....






Richard Townsend 
Lincoln City, Oregon



-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@surewest.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 26, 2011 3:53 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Rosters


 

Richard,

Challenger did one in brass lettered for the CB&Q. These are lettered 
as built in 1927 so should be similar.

http://www.atlasrr.com/HOFreight/ho70tonhartballast4.htm

For a picture of prototype see:
http://www.railmodel.com/search/picturelink.asp?productid=2862

Ken Martin

On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:45 PM, richtownsend@netscape.net wrote:

>
> I'll try one. I have ORER listings for the C&S from just about 
> every year. Here is July, 1958, with my comments on HO models:
>
> 15150-15249, Ballast, 93 cars. These were Hart selective ballast 
> cars, built in 1926. Nothing very close is available that I know 
> of. I'm toying with the idea of kitbashing one from an Accurail 
> Canton hopper as a stand-in, but I'm not at all sure how close it 
> would be since I haven't seen a photo of one of these cars.
>
> Richard Townsend
> Lincoln City, Oregon







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