PIeter, Thank you for the pointers on that. I know next to nothing about PRR freight cars with the exception of the X29 box car. I thought that a conversion might be some low-hanging fruit. I might still do the car or seek another prototype. I would like to do a car that will be freight car red or brown because I have so many black hoppers.
By the way, I am making a trade with Earl Tuson for a yellow unlettered SHS refrigerator car. The trade will save my having to strip the very nice lettering on an EATMOR CRANBERRIES NWX car, and thus now I can use one of the two roofs I purchased from you. I will go for the GN WFRX car. Do you have any ideas for decals? Possibly, Tom Lennon has some old Enhornings that might work. I purchased a number of decals from Tom but that was several years ago. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Pieter Roos [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: AM two-bay ribbed hopper Hi Tom; There was an article in RMC in the late 1980s on converting the Athearn twin hopper to a GLa. The process would be similar. Mainly adding an extended end sill, and there are gussets attaching the end uprights to the upper end plate. I did an early CNJ car, and moved the bolsters out toward the ends (which also lowered the car somewhat). The car is still too large, and the rib shape is wrong because PRR used a unique design on all it's ribbed cars, but that would not be obvious. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 11/6/12, David <[email protected]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], > Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > Komar has decals for a PRR rib-side, two-bay open-top > hopper. The company ordered or built 30,256 cars > between 1905-1911, and they survived into the Sixties, some > of them even getting what I call the three-dimensional > keystone emblem. > > Those are the PRR GLa. The AM car isn't very close at all, > aide from having two hopper bays and seven side ribs. The > later PRR H31 is a much better choice, but even that has > some differences. > > The AM hopper *is* good for a raft of Virginian hoppers, and > one fairly small class of Wabash cars (also some offset-side > Wabash cars if you add the extruded panels). > > David Thompson ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ 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/
