Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Hopper Car Models

["Bill Hirt whirt@fastmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Scott,

The Accurail and Stewart 70 ton Offset Side Triple Hoppers are available. However, if you are looking for twin hoppers, the Proto 2000 open composite hopper is still available and Walthers seems to run them regularly.

There are dearth of open hopper models for most railroads because each had their own unique design.

Bill Hirt

On 3/10/2015 11:15 AM, Scott Myers myers.scottv@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:

I have a number of chinese red hopper cars and black hopper cars, but not very many mineral red CB&Q hopper cars.  I would like to add some more HO scale steam era hoppers to pull behind my 2-10-2, but there doesn't seem to be much available anymore.  I do have some old Athearn 55 ton 2 bay composite side cars, several Walthers HT-3 55 ton 2 bay cars, as well as some Roundhouse 70 ton 3 bay cars in the mineral red paint scheme.  I see that Walthers has the HT-3 2 bay cars on sale right now, but they have 9 ribs instead of the correct 7 ribs.  Per the Athearn website, the old Athearn and Roundhouse cars are no longer available. 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to another source of HO scale CB&Q hopper cars for this era?  Or are the Walthers 2 bay ribbed cars the only reasonably close option available?  Maybe this is a market opportunity for Q Connection or 5th Ave. Car Shops (hint, hint).

Scott Myers

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Posted by: Bill Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com>

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