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Damn, they had CF7's ? I got one kit left, maybe I'll turn it into a RBMN unit
And they had the WORST paint! They started out like this: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bmr601.jpgReally pretty, right?But like, within a year they looked like this:https://trovestardata.com/images/Collections/37/items/177/177337_3.jpg
Within a year?! What'd they use . . . interior paint? DFF
They did. Two of em (and they always seemed to be together, so save the kit).
They did. Two of 'em (and they always seemed to be together, so save the kit).
That shot of three strings of CR hoppers in the yard in Cressona on the last day of CR operations is gold for getting a sense of the proportion of 70T hoppers and predecessor road hoppers in the fleet before the G52H/L/R "rebuild" programs began.
Most def. Far different than the sea of Atlas 90 tonners of model life.
A) apologies for thread drift, and B) apologies for the contrarianism, but: Actually - the Atlas "90 T" hopper, in overall proportions - slope sheet angle, # of ribs, rib spacing - is a pretty good stand-in for the PRR H43 and a lot of CR H1's. Admittedly, the Bluford 70 T cars aren't perfect PRR H39's, but they're still an appropriate size and there were other 70 T cars on Conrail that looked like them. Sprinkle in a few Bluford cars in a string of Atlas cars, run em on a sceniced layout, and it'll look pretty good.
I mean, that IS what I'm doing...My point was more that the strings of cars don't look nearly as uniform as a fleet of the Atlas cars does. It's why I'm very appreciative of the Bluford cars.
I've seen that train. It's kinda where I got the idea. I think we're really on the same page: Those late 1990 strings of hoppers aren't as uniform as my memory thought they were...
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