Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Hopper Car Models

["Scott Myers myers.scottv@gmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

The big problem that I have encountered is availability of cars in CB&Q lettering and mineral red paint.  Checking the Walters website today, nothing listed or in stock for the Proto2000 (now called WalthersProto), Stewart or Accurail hopper cars in my desired paint scheme.  Same results for the Accurail website and the Bowser website.  I could not find a website for Stewart.  So, some good suggestions (I hadn't thought about Bowser, for example) but no manufacturer seems to have any currently available.  Accurail does have C&S 55T 2 bay hoppers in stock, but for me that is only "close but no cigar".  Perhaps some of you can tell us of current sources for these cars, other than the websites that I mentioned that proved fruitless.

And yes, I have thought about adding some more gondolas for this service.  Still would like more hoppers, though.  Maybe train shows (and eBay) are the only current source for such hopper models.

Scott Myers

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Kenneth Martin kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

The Q twin hoppers are 34' long, the Accurail USRA hoppers are 32' long. 

The Accurail are right for the C&S but not for the Q.

Ken Martin

On Mar 10, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Michael Woodruff mwoodruff54@gmail.com [CBQ] wrote:

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

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