Thank You! Those sand hoppers are always ones I forget are on the layout. I really need to weather up a few more to be able to swap them out from time to time.
Thank you! Definitely go for it and learn how to do weathering! It can be stressful mid project when things loom rough but is very rewarding when a project comes together at the end.
That is an impressive fleet. Furthermore the weathering is excellent. Nice touch the open roof hatch and very cool sand car with piping to unload. Great video, well done
Hi, Steve! Great layout! I had a couple of observations to make. This is just for info only. I respect people’s thinking that it’s their layout! I noticed in previous videos that you didn’t include any pipe loads in your gon fleet. The Chessie system 2-bay CH fleet carried a lot of sand, whether foundry white sand or glass making sand. Also, the short 3 bay ACF car is a 3560 cu. ft. car. Anyway, great looking cars and layout! CR was one of my favorites. There was a local that went from Danville, IL to E. Peoria, that went right behind my house in Bloomington, IL for the years I lived there, until it was dis-continued in the mid 1990’s. Also, the company I worked for (original TP&W) had a power run through agreement with PC/CR. These trains also passed in front of my house until the agreement was dis- continued in the late 1970’s. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I actually have some 65 ft gondolas I plan on adding pipe loads to. I just need to find time to make the pipe loads as I want to hide some weight in the pipes as the cars themselves are a bit light. Ill keep in mind that the 2 bays mainly carried sand in the future. I went with cement mainly as thats the industry I chose to use them for on the layout.
@@ConrailSteve the various roads that made up CR probably had cement as a major industry. The Chessie/CSXT has a lot of sand industry in my home state of Illinois and here in Indiana, with some in Michigan along the lake shore. However, there is a plant south of me, on CSXT, west of Indianapolis, that is a cement customer. I know those tank car looking cars built by UTLX are cement cars, mainly. Probably depends on where you live, I guess. C&NW had some cement customers. I remember a picture of a 2-bay CH that had about 5 tons of cement chunks on the top. The customer pays for that every time they weigh the car. I worked for TP&W back in the 70’s and 80’s. I never saw a car of cement. We had a lot of foundry sand coming from Michigan to a Caterpillar foundry in Mapleton, IL, just west of Peoria. I also saw a lot of glass sand coming from Illinois River plants north of Peoria going to glass making plants in Indiana. The Cat sand was in B&O/C&O/CSXT 2-bay CH’s. The others were in 2-bays of CB&Q/BN variety. At this time, the older 77 ton 2-bays were still being used, most with friction bearing trucks. As a side note, there was a feed manufacturer that received 2-bay C&NW CH’s of bentonite clay from South Dakota. They also received 3-bay ACF 3560 CH’s of what they called dried distillers grain mash; just called dried distillers grains (DDG’s) now. They were RI cars. Anyway, just a little fyi for you! It’s your “pike”, so you can do what you like, lol!
yes that sure was breathtaking ! i think you have done almost everything with these great looking cars. You could also add one or two new hatch covers on the big hoppers. you can see that on long grain trains, especially if you spot a green bn car where the new hatch covers in grey really stand out. The flex flo cars are super nice. Maybe one or two in PC and NYC markings too ? i must say i really enjoyed this video a lot , thanks !
Thank you! I plan to add more grain cars with different hatches in time. I actually already have a bunch more but need to weather them yet. I only have the Conrail Flexi Flo cara as of now. Hopefully Rapido will do more in the future and I can add some NYC and PC patch ones as well.
Question: where do you get your Ho scale cars? I have a Ho scale layout and want to expandbon rolling stock but I don't have any shops around my area. I would love to know!
Alot of my cars are purchased off of Ebay mainly. I keep an eye on prices and keep a look out for deals and grab them whenever I can. Anything I buy new either comes direct from the manufacturer (Scaletrains, Tangent) or is purchased/preordered from an online hobby shop such as Lombard Hobbies, Trains In The Valley, or Overland Hobbies as they all have the best pricing for new releases.
Remarkable and quite a collection indeed! Great job 👏 👍
Thank You!
Nice looking fleet of hoppers! I really like the last three company sand cars.
Thank You! Those sand hoppers are always ones I forget are on the layout. I really need to weather up a few more to be able to swap them out from time to time.
That was a greay freight car tour, I really enjoyed it.
Thank You!
Thanks again Steve! Enjoyed learning about all your covered hoppers. I haven’t yet weathered any cars but hopefully give it a go sometime.
Thank you! Definitely go for it and learn how to do weathering! It can be stressful mid project when things loom rough but is very rewarding when a project comes together at the end.
That is an impressive fleet. Furthermore the weathering is excellent. Nice touch the open roof hatch and very cool sand car with piping to unload. Great video, well done
Thank you! I wish more manufacturers would add the opening roof hatches.
awesome thanks for the post.😊😊👍👍
Thank You for watching!
Hi, Steve! Great layout! I had a couple of observations to make.
This is just for info only. I respect people’s thinking that
it’s their layout! I noticed in
previous videos that you didn’t
include any pipe loads in your gon fleet. The Chessie system
2-bay CH fleet carried a lot of
sand, whether foundry white sand or glass making sand. Also, the short 3 bay ACF car is
a 3560 cu. ft. car. Anyway, great looking cars and layout!
CR was one of my favorites.
There was a local that went from Danville, IL to E. Peoria,
that went right behind my house in Bloomington, IL for
the years I lived there, until it
was dis-continued in the mid
1990’s. Also, the company I worked for (original TP&W) had
a power run through agreement
with PC/CR. These trains also
passed in front of my house
until the agreement was dis-
continued in the late 1970’s.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I actually have some 65 ft gondolas I plan on adding pipe loads to. I just need to find time to make the pipe loads as I want to hide some weight in the pipes as the cars themselves are a bit light. Ill keep in mind that the 2 bays mainly carried sand in the future. I went with cement mainly as thats the industry I chose to use them for on the layout.
@@ConrailSteve the various roads that
made up CR probably had cement as a
major industry. The Chessie/CSXT has
a lot of sand industry in my home state
of Illinois and here in Indiana, with some in Michigan along the lake shore.
However, there is a plant south of me,
on CSXT, west of Indianapolis, that is
a cement customer. I know those tank
car looking cars built by UTLX are cement cars, mainly. Probably depends
on where you live, I guess. C&NW had
some cement customers. I remember a
picture of a 2-bay CH that had about
5 tons of cement chunks on the top.
The customer pays for that every time
they weigh the car. I worked for TP&W
back in the 70’s and 80’s. I never saw a
car of cement. We had a lot of foundry
sand coming from Michigan to a
Caterpillar foundry in Mapleton, IL, just
west of Peoria. I also saw a lot of glass
sand coming from Illinois River plants
north of Peoria going to glass making
plants in Indiana. The Cat sand was in
B&O/C&O/CSXT 2-bay CH’s. The others were in 2-bays of CB&Q/BN
variety. At this time, the older 77 ton
2-bays were still being used, most with
friction bearing trucks. As a side note,
there was a feed manufacturer that
received 2-bay C&NW CH’s of bentonite clay from South Dakota.
They also received 3-bay ACF 3560
CH’s of what they called dried distillers
grain mash; just called dried distillers
grains (DDG’s) now. They were RI cars.
Anyway, just a little fyi for you! It’s your
“pike”, so you can do what you like, lol!
yes that sure was breathtaking ! i think you have done almost everything with these great looking cars. You could also add one or two new hatch covers on the big hoppers. you can see that on long grain trains, especially if you spot a green bn car where the new hatch covers in grey really stand out. The flex flo cars are super nice. Maybe one or two in PC and NYC markings too ? i must say i really enjoyed this video a lot , thanks !
Thank you! I plan to add more grain cars with different hatches in time. I actually already have a bunch more but need to weather them yet. I only have the Conrail Flexi Flo cara as of now. Hopefully Rapido will do more in the future and I can add some NYC and PC patch ones as well.
Question: where do you get your Ho scale cars? I have a Ho scale layout and want to expandbon rolling stock but I don't have any shops around my area. I would love to know!
Alot of my cars are purchased off of Ebay mainly. I keep an eye on prices and keep a look out for deals and grab them whenever I can. Anything I buy new either comes direct from the manufacturer (Scaletrains, Tangent) or is purchased/preordered from an online hobby shop such as Lombard Hobbies, Trains In The Valley, or Overland Hobbies as they all have the best pricing for new releases.