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[doctorwayne]

The now gone glassworks in my hometown received its sand in two bay covered hoppers. Model Die Casting, Bowser, Atlas, Kadee, and probably lots of others, offer such cars.

Here's a couple of Bowser's ACF covered hoppers. They come with or without the partially open side panel and as kits or r-t-r:



This Pennsy H-30 covered hopper is also from Bowser, but as r-t-r only. It comes in several prototypically correct paint schemes for Pennsy, Penn Central, and Conrail:



This one was formerly an MDC PS-2, and for quite some time was one of the few short covered hoppers available. It originally had the round-style hatches common to PS-2 cars, but it also had some very heavy cast-on ladders and sill steps. When I decided to replace the steps and grabirons, I also decided to redo the hatches and outlet gates, using Bowser parts.
This is the only photo which I could find of the cars before modification. Cars 6807 and 6810 the MDC ones, while the others are from Bowser:



...and this is the 6807 re-worked:



Ramax also once offered a more modern short covered hopper, but mine are long gone, although somebody else, perhaps Athearn or Accurail have a very similar such car.

Wayne