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From: Ed Kozlowsky
Perhaps someone could tell me why there is such a love affair with Hoppers
in S. It's certainly the predominant car available.
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S Scalers are getting into realism? Hard to believe, but maybe. I used to
have the feeling that billboard reefers were the predominant item in S.
You'd even see guys running long trains of them pulled by diesels when S
portable layouts were set up in public.
But isn't coal historically and still today the #1 commodity carried by
railroads? And we're finally getting away from the tinplate syndrome of a
coal hopper train with every car physically idential except the paint job.
The several different body styles of 2-bay hoppers from SHS; the 2-, 3-, and
4-bay hoppers from AM, and the 3-bay SSA hopper allow one to create a coal
train with a realistic variety of body styles.
And speaking of moving coal, we're looking forward to the imminent release
of some new road or owner names on the DPH rotary dump coal gondolas.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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