As one of my MANY projects, I've cut the roof off a SHS 2 bay covered hopper to model a ballast hopper on the industrial shortline I'm modelling (they have two).
It will look somewhat like the one in Gary's NOSS folder - the major difference is "converting" the car to an ACF (I think) type car http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=etr822&o=etl So far, doesn't look too bad but still a ways to go. I've cut the ballast chutes off an HO ballast hopper with the idea of splicing them on. ken On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:36 PM, JGG KahnSr <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Norwood and St Lawrence, a northern New York State shortline, was > primarily an industrial carrier for a paper mill (I think St Regis), and > routinely used single-sheathed > boxcars without roofs for hauling pulpwood; I think there was a photo in > Beebe and Clegg's Mixed Train Daily, and that was back in the 1940's. > B&O not only installed hoppers in single=sheathed cars but even in > wagontops; PSC offered that variation as a brass import in O scale. > Pecos Brass offered a brass import in O scale of a covered hopper sans roof > in ballast service, factory painted for C&NW (I have one) and ATSF and > perhaps other roadnames > with which I am not familiar. It would be an easy conversion for the > Weaver plastic O scale car; whether it would also work with an SHS PS-2 I > don't know, but am not about > to find out with one of mine... > > Jace Kahn > > General Manager > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > > > > > > MEC and maybe BAR removed the roofs from single sheathed boxcars, added > cross ties at the top, and used them for pulpwood service. > > > > B&O and D&H both added hoppers, roof hatches and slope sheets to USRA > single sheathed boxcars to turn them into covered hoppers for cement > service. Central Vermont had some XM-1 SS boxcars with roof hatches and > hoppers for grain service. > > > > The photos posted this week for Gary Ippolito included a very nice PS-2 > covered hopper to open ballast hopper conversion. > > > > Pieter E. Roos > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
