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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3815

tomjacobs OFFLINE Superintendent Posts: 177 Thank you received: 37	The open hoppers that were painted green had roofs and hatches added and were designated class LOp. They started as 55T offset hoppers, were painted gree, and lettered with yellow "speed" lettering. The HTe class were 100T three-bay hoppers and were black with white lettering.
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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3824

Turboboost910 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 250 Thank you received: 17	Just opened up my book, and realized i never even read the info on these hoppers! they were outside of my modeling era so I never paid much attention. After looking carefully at the pictures, I definitely see a vague shade of green in them! The lettering looks terribly faded to almost white though, which doesn't help much.
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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3826

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"O" my MTH, the green 100 ton Reading hoppers, at least 12 individually numbered with yellow lettering. The shame of it The cars lettering and number series are right on - except it is green and yellow instead of black and white. These cars even have reinforcement channel on the top chord, but they are four bays, which throws them back out the window. Well they do look pretty - I guess. below is the only photo I could find of one, on a friend's "O" layout, kind of a glancing side view.

Also here is a shot of my version of the LOp covered hopper car along with an LOf in green in HO. Not perfect but keeps me content.

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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3827

2771-chris OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 634 Thank you received: 94	Rob...I think both look good.I have a ton of Athearn offset hoppers and I think I'm going to have to do a few of these.The paint scheme is nice which really highlights the uniqueness of the LOp's I have my ideas,but what did you use for the roof and what's the wording on the yellow panel?
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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3829

rdg1187prr OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 38	Yellow panel wording- Return to Millville NJ PRSL when empty John Caples 2771-chris wrote: Rob...I think both look good.I have a ton of Athearn offset hoppers and I think I'm going to have to do a few of these.The paint scheme is nice which really highlights the uniqueness of the LOp's I have my ideas,but what did you use for the roof and what's the wording on the yellow panel?
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Reading Lines hoppers 9 years 4 months ago #3833

Rob OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 393 Thank you received: 57	John Caples is correct about the end panel verbiage. I think (if I recall correctly) I got the decals for that from him. As for the roof, I believe it was just a modified to fit MDC Roundhouse covered hopper roof. This was probably done almost 12 years ago..
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