Can somebody recognize the manufacturer of this car...?
Thanks!
I'm not sure but it strikes me as maybe being a Roundhouse (MDC) offering.
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Looking at the underside, the weight and the coupler pocket cover clips suggest an Athearn product. Roundhouse I believe used screws to hold the coupler pocket cover in place.
I do believe you're right. I hadn't looked at the coupler covers the first time around.
100% Athearn except for the Kadee #5 couplers.
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Yep. She's an Athearn.
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Thanks, guys!
It will be a keeper, as the "borrowed" foreign car in mostly PRR hopper train. Hope it makes at least a little sense!
Thommo Thanks, guys! It will be a keeper, as the "borrowed" foreign car in mostly PRR hopper train. Hope it makes at least a little sense!
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Makes sense to me. D&H served the anthracite-mining region, and anthracite was a popular home-heat fuel, so I would think it reasonable to drop off D&H hoppers at the retail coal dealers.
Interestign that someone went through the trouble of weathering it, but couldn't be bothered to paint the weights before building it. If the weights haven't been attached with CA or other glue, I'd consider unscrewing the underframe and painting them.
The Reading hoppers I have stacks of are all black, so painting the weights is easy - I buy a cheap can of flat black from Walmart (like 99 cents), line them up on a piece of cardboard or a box (don;t use foam, the paint attacks it) and take it outside ona nice day and spray away. Couple of thin coats to both sides, wait a day or two for it to dry completely, and then a drop of CA on each one as I slip it in so they don;t rattle around.
Now I just have to figure out how to get these Con-Cor gons apart, the person I bought them from did not glue the weights inside and they rattle around liek crazy.
--Randy
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