RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Hopper Car Models

["Rick rkeil6721@hotmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Scott

The Q hauled coal in composite gondolas too and Intermountain (IIRC) is releasing some soon and they also had kits for sale at one time, they would be mineral red.

Ricky Keil

Papillion, NE

 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:15:50 -0500
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Hopper Car Models

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: Rick <rkeil6721@hotmail.com>

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