04-02-2012, 12:07 PM
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:Its an FMC hopper, much like the ones first produced by Model Diecasting and now by Athearn.
No, it absolutely isn't.
The car pictured in the first post is a much larger, more modern car built in the late 1970s through early 1980s by Pullman-Standard for plastic pellet service. There is unfortunately no model of this type of car out there at all, but there really should be.
There are other types of plastic pellet cars on the market that you can use for the same service: Walthers has one that represents an NSC car built in the early 1990s, and Atlas does an ACF version from the lates 1970s but these are all curved-side centre-flow type cars. There are no rib-side pellet car models out there.