Hello, recently I bought few Roco (Made in Austria) American freight cars for a very low price. Those were unexpected add on to the order I made on German ebay. So, basically, now I am trying to decide will I keep them or try to sell them.
I am interested if they are true to prototype, or at least are they close in accuracy.
CB&Q war emerg. gondola:
CB&Q 40' gondola:
This older Bachmann LV open hopper has Kadee couplers and metal whellsets, runs very good. Did LV had this type of paint job? Would it blend into Bowser/Athearn PRR open hopper train?
Tnx on your help!
Well, in my opinion, I have NO use for anything with truck mounted couplers, so unless they could easily be converted to body mounts, I would have no interest in them.
Sheldon
Thank you about the opinion, but the reason for asking is just that: are those cars close enough to the real thing, to invest some time into mounting Kadee coupler boxes and better RP25 wheelsets?
Thommo-
All three models are rather crude, so unless I had couplers, etc. sitting around and I really liked the cars, I wouldn't bother doing much with them.
You might try a web search to see if the Lehigh Valley ever had hoppers painted like the one you're showing, but most I've ever seen are black, as the LV was a coal-hauling road and that light gray paint job wouldn't last too long in that state.
Looks like they're worth about what you paid for them ;)
Eric
I wish I was a headlight
On a northbound train
as others have stated these look rather crude by today's standards.
i know the Q still had a lot of wooden sided cars around much later than most other railroads but did any of them make it into the Chinese red paint scheme?
TLDX i think is a reporting mark of the Louis Dreyfus corp and i believe they are a grain and commodities trader. they have a bunch of covered hoppers and tank cars but TLDX look kind of bogus to me on a Lehigh Valley open top hopper car.
grizlump
grizlump9 TLDX i think is a reporting mark of the Louis Dreyfus corp and i believe they are a grain and commodities trader. they have a bunch of covered hoppers and tank cars but TLDX look kind of bogus to me on a Lehigh Valley open top hopper car.
I think this is the parent of that car.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=58040
As you can see, it is not a hopper. Well. It is a hopper. But not that kind of hopper.
I don't believe the Q rostered either of the cars pictured. According to my available sources, they had no 50' composite gondolas or 40-42' steel gondolas. If the two cars were reversed (52' steel and 40' composite), then they would be alright or at least closer.
I cannot speak for the LV hopper
Ricky
Well,gee whiz..
I wish I could find something positive to say about those cars but, as they are now there nothing more then crude looking train set cars with truck mounted couplers.Look at that wooden Burlington gon..It doesn't even have steps.
However,
Here's what I would use 'em for..Car shop storage track cars.I would remove the loop couplers on that steel gon paint MOW and set it on wood timbers as a usable parts bin for side frames,etc...
Larry
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