Yes and no Steve, the script was used on the 3400 and
3800 cu. ft. CP hoppers blt up to 1968. The later hoppers
were longer with a capacity of 4550 cu. ft. I don't know
what scale you're in but do recall Intermountain putting
out wrong length hoppers but don't recall the details.
Check http://www.nakina.net/cp/cp3.html for some roster
data and the CPHA website documents library for the 1977
CS39 Equipment list http://www.cptracks.ca/cpdocs/main.asp
Photo descriptions and details can be found in Riddell's
CP Color Guide and more in Yaremko's "Canadian Rail Car
Pictorial Vol. 7".
Rainer Auer
Saskatoon, SK
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stephen" <sjlowens@...> wrote:
I was wandering through PWRS' site on the Hawker-Siddeley cylindrical
hoppers, and the earliest date they have for one of these is 1976. So that
has me wondering about the Intermountain cylindrical hoppers in my collection
painted in black with CP script lettering. This would have to have been
painted way before 1976 to be legit. Somewhere in the recesses of my memory,
I thought I had seen a photo of an example of this, but my mind may be
playing tricks on me.
Does anyone know if the CP script was prototypical for a cylindrical hopper,
or is this a case of Intermountain imagineering?
Thanks for the info,
Steve Lowens
