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RE: (erielack) ERIE Covered Hoppers
Those first cars were smaller than most later covered hoppers. There was a good
article on scratchbuilding them in a Model Railroader some years ago, I don't
recall just when. I would be easy to find with the on-line index at
ModelRailroader.com (I think that's where it is). It was about doing an O-scale
model, but as we all know, prototype dimensions don't change. There were
drawings, quite good ones IIRC.
SGL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of Benton Bartlett
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 8:23 PM
> To: Schuyler Larrabee; erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: RE: (erielack) ERIE Covered Hoppers
>
> SGL
> Thanks - I wasn't aware of the Precision Scale cars. It looks
> to me like a straight forward kitbash of an off the shelf two
> bay covered hopper.
> Ben
>
>
> At 08:06 PM 12/12/04 -0500, you wrote:
> >I believe these were principally for cement service.
> Probably did get
> used for
> >some other things.
> >
> >Precision Scale did some nice models of them, came
> individually, and in
> >a three-pack. Lots of cast parts, and as a consequence, NO need to
> >weight
> these
> >babies! Those that have them must like them, because I can
> only recall
> >ONE example on eBay, and a single at that..
> >
> >SGL
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
> >> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of Benton
> >> Bartlett
> >> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:13 PM
> >> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> >> Subject: (erielack) ERIE Covered Hoppers
> >>
> >> List
> >> The ERIE had a fleet of small (30') covered hoppers 20000 - 20049.
> >> Does anyone know if these cars survived to EL? What
> commodity would
> >> they have carried?
> >> Ben Bartlett - #250
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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