N-Scale 3-Bay 70 ton PS-2 Covered Hopper

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This 3-Bay Covered Hopper is a transition era railcar similar to a 2893cf Pullman Standard Covered Hopper (ca. 1973) style 70 ton covered hopper. A prototype picture of this rail car can be found here: http://www.trainweb.org/arkansastrains/railroad/cgw/4647054.JPG- This is probably a better matching prototype image: http://www.spookshow.net/freight/csx222906.jpg Personally I think this model is a good enough stand-in if your fleet needs expansion at a budget. I printed about a half dozen of this model, which required about half an hour each, but only assembled two as of today. The yellow car is the current model. The grey car has an older version of the frame. Inspiration came from Agu's 55 ton Coal Hopper but all parts needed modification and were not always usable for modification, so I modeled them myself. Some parts original. Marked as "remix" still, as I worked from his source.