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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4128

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	MrBill, in your photo the roundhouse body looks taller than the Atlas. even with the Atlas being a little bit longer than the prototype, it looks more realistic. I have 5 old roundhouse in various schemes, and 1 Atlas with the "RDG" lettering. Butch Curll
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4129

MrBill OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 169 Thank you received: 31	Yes, from top to bottom chords they 7-1/2' and 8' tall. I agree that the atlas is a nicer model. Though They look fine rolling around the layout together.
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4136

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	I do have to mention though that any of these hoppers that had orange end panels, the panel was always on the left end of the car. roundhouse years ago released a set of these with the entire end in orange which had one side with a left panel and one side with a right panel, which is not correct. Butch Curll
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4146

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	None of the HTw cars in Ore Service actually had orange end panels. This was limited to the HTz cars. Attachments: img627.jpg (41KB)
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4147

Rob OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 393 Thank you received: 57	Nice photo..... under the loader at Grace Mine no less. Notice the GM in the top center of the car on the left, for Grace Mine and I assume the O in the end panel of the right car stood for Ore since the verbiage just says "For service between Joanna and Bethlehem" BTW, there is a list of the HTw's assigned to both Joanna and Cornwall somewhere in the RCT&HS archives. Rob
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Athearn HTw Hoppers 9 years 2 months ago #4148

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	Just came into possession of a large number of Grace Mine photos, but can only share a very few at this time. As the hopper cars were discussed in a article published in the BEE LINE, I can share a few of these.
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December, 1947

Construction begins at the Reading Locomotive Shops on ten new G-3 Pacific passenger steam locomotives. These locomotives will be the last Pacific-type engines built in the United States.

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