Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Hopper Car Models

["Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

How close is the Accurail 2500-series USRA 55-ton 2-bay hopper to cars that the CB&Q had?  It has 7 ribs.  I know Accurail offered them in the chinese red scheme; an eBay search might turn up some undecorated ones that you could do in mineral red.

msw

largofl

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Scott Myers myers.scottv@gmail.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> 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: Michael Woodruff <mwoodruff54@gmail.com>

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