www.nakina.net has this image: http://nakina.net/photos/cn1/cn117312.jpg
which is one of the numbers Rapido is offering in CN.
Marc Simpson
On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 11:58 AM Dale Wilson <dale.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A 1949 photo (generakky poor quality) taken at Wawa, Ontario shows a
Pennsy hopper as one of many hauling sintered ore between Wawa and
Michipicoten Harbour and as needed, to the Sault in winter. At first and
for a long time, the very hot roasted ore was dumped into these used hopper
cars and immediately quenchedr ight there, thus quickly burnpaint and any
previous identity clue away — the only way the railway could keep car
numbers on car sides was to weld plates between two of the ribs and paint
numbers there. Local knowledge said all those hoppers came from ”coal
roads’ moving to three bay hoppers.
The Rapido newsletter says other railways bought the particular hoppers
they are now modelling; the ACR only rarely bought things new and would
have bought a considerable number of used hoppers for the recently opened
and thriving Helen Mine.
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 25, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Dave Love <dlove101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:prototypically accurate models. It’s not flagged as ‘fantasy’, so I would
The newsletter shows a CN hopper? Rapido has always done a good job of
expect it’s an accurate model based on the same plan?
though. Locomotive coal for Ontario and Montreal was imported from mines in
Regards
Dave Love
On Dec 25, 2020, at 10:20 AM, John Riddell <riddellj@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have not seen any evidence of O&W hoppers in Canada. Many others
Ohio and other eastern U.S. mining areas using a wide variety of US hoppers
including PRR, N&W, L&N, C&O.
https://rapidotrains.com/products/ho-scale/freight-cars/ho-scale-gla-hopper
John Riddell
-----Original Message----- From: Gerald Henriksen
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2020 1:04 PM
To: cpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cpha] GLa hoppers in Canada?
Rapido today also announced the Pennsy/O&W/other GLa hoppers, anyone
happen to know if these made it up into Canada?
