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Hiroe

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Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« on: February 29, 2012, 12:52:42 AM »
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Has anyone ever released a cast-metal weight insert, designed to fit that trough inside the Atlas 90-ton hoppers (and hopefully hide it in the process)? I've got a few dozen of these, and those troughs look really obvious in them when run empty.

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Re: Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2012, 02:09:00 PM »
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I've always just thrown a little leftover coal in the bottom to cover trench.  I know hoppers are pretty much designed to discharge EVERYTHING, but it's a semi logical way to camouflage the model railroady design of the weight.

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Re: Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 02:39:34 PM »
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That works; but I've always thought that there would be a market for such a cast metal weight, and was hoping someone had produced one. It could fill out the center parts of the hopper dividers too, so they look like proper one-piece sheet steel.

Oh well.
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Re: Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2012, 07:27:03 PM »
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Well they were made, but since JnJ's is no more...  I could about 40 or 50 more myself.

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Re: Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2012, 07:30:23 PM »
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Quote from: rdg5308 on February 29, 2012, 07:27:03 PM
Well they were made, but since JnJ's is no more...  I could about 40 or 50 more myself.



Seems like something easy enough to cast and pour fishing weight lead.
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Re: Atlas 90-ton hopper weights
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2012, 01:25:46 AM »
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Quote from: rdg5308 on February 29, 2012, 07:27:03 PM
Well they were made, but since JnJ's is no more...  I could about 40 or 50 more myself.

...So does anyone have a donor piece to use as a master for replicating?
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