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I picked this up at a hoby shop a few months back:
I'ts missing a number of parts. Grabs, couplers and covers, bottom doors, brake gear. I'd like to know it's origins so I can track down the missing pieces. It looks sort of Tichy but they didn't make a composite hopper.
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If the under frame is metal I am going to guess it is a MDC/Roundhouse kit, possibly a Bev-Bel version.
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I would have said
Athearn, with different trucks and steel wheels but your hopper has one more board on the side and holes for the ladders, so I would have been wrong!
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
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11-14-2023, 01:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-14-2023, 01:44 AM by jim currie.)
this might be it if it's a metal frame
Varney1950HopperCarPg2.jpg (564×782) (hoseeker.net) the trucks look like proto so it could also be a pk2 war emergency hopper if its a 34 ft long one .
Jim
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Yes I think we have a winner. I'm trying to find the missing parts but as it's a long discontinued kit I'll either have to scratch the parts or adapt other car parts for it.
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(11-15-2023, 12:06 AM)cnrglen Wrote: Yes I think we have a winner. I'm trying to find the missing parts but as it's a long discontinued kit I'll either have to scratch the parts or adapt other car parts for it.
think i have a instruction for a pk2 war hopper will look tomorrow , that would give you a idea what the missing parts look like.
Jim
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Thanks but I already found the instructions on HOseeker's page. I'm pretty sure I can fabricate the missing parts. The real challenge will be the bottom drop doors.
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11-17-2023, 02:01 AM
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(11-16-2023, 11:04 PM)cnrglen Wrote: Thanks but I already found the instructions on HOseeker's page. I'm pretty sure I can fabricate the missing parts. The real challenge will be the bottom drop doors.
if you got the instructions. did that kit come with 2 different style of doors? if that's the case i have the extra doors i would give to you.
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I had not realized there were two different doors until I re-checked the intructions. If you have them I would gladly accept you generosity.
