It is hard to think what would have been left of the poor AAR offset-side twin
with some of those conversions; almost easier, I would think
to scratchbuild, although when Frank Titman was pioneering S scale, the
extensive use of styrene now common was almost unthought of.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I got a similar GLca conversion off Ebay a couple of years ago. The seller
> was handling an estate from the northwest somewhere. There must have been a
> lot of theses cars made by somebody!
>
> I think the concept of the conversion originated with Frank Titman, who made
> an entire fleet of different hoppers from the AF shell. They were pictured in
> the Herald, and written up in S Gaugian as I recall. Other types included D&H
> Selley composite cars, RDG "War Emergency" hoppers, an odd IC steel car and a
> PRR H25 quad hopper from two AF twins.
>
> Pieter E. Roos
>
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