Conrail H44 Hoppers in N scale
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Episode 19
Follow along as we repaint Delaware Valley cylindrical hopper into Conrail H44 class hoppers, and weather them.
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Nice work Joe! Your cars turned out great. Wishing you well!
Thank you Collin. Thanks for tunning in!
Very well done 👍🏻…….. John
Thank you John!
Joe,
The Delaware Valley models that you used represent ACF 3510 cuft, 3 bay, standard cube covered hoppers. NYC owned 62 cars, numbered 885901-885912 and 885950-885999. They became PC 884351-884362 and 884300-884348. The 12 were built 4/63 and the 50 were built 6,7/62. Info from: Freight Cars Journal, Monograph #2, "A History of ACF Center Flow, Eric A. Neubauer. Conrail renumbered those cars along with cars from PRR via PC together. PRR appears to have had 120 cars numbered 260001-260120. I don't know what the complete CR number series was.
Fred
Thanks Fred for the great information. Freight Cars Journal....is that a book? I need to find another reference book that covers freight cars for my research. Thanks for watching.
thanks for a very interesting video. I wonder if some of these hoppers also came from the Erie Lackawanna RR. They had a group painted in boxcar red and maybe that is the color that show
through that faded gray ? anyway nice looking cars !
Yes doing my research I found that Erie did have some cars in this class. Thanks for watching.
Another great video and superb work. I have one of those cars already in the Conrail scheme. Would be nice to have more. Might draw inspiration from you. Any chance those cars will make it up to Ciba Geigy?
Thank you. Oh yes they will definitely be heading to Ciba! Thanks for watching.
Super job on these cars. In your weighting of cars do you go to NMRA standard or add a little more?
With these car I went a little over the standard, because of the high center of gravity. I was trying to make them a little more stable. But I always used the standard as a starting point. Great question, thanks for watching!
Have a question, did you thin the model flex , if you did what did you use. I liked the fact they are in different stages of weathering.
When using the model flex for weathering I thin it with isopropyl alcohol about 3 drop to a paint cup. Roughly 20% by volume ( though I have never actually measured it ). Other wise if I'm painting a model, straight out of the bottle. Model flex is made by badger specifically for airbrushes and is pre-thinned. However a little flow improver ( of your choice) never hurts. Great question thanks for watching.