Hi Tom; There was an article in RMC in the late 1980s on converting the Athearn twin hopper to a GLa. The process would be similar. Mainly adding an extended end sill, and there are gussets attaching the end uprights to the upper end plate. I did an early CNJ car, and moved the bolsters out toward the ends (which also lowered the car somewhat). The car is still too large, and the rib shape is wrong because PRR used a unique design on all it's ribbed cars, but that would not be obvious.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 11/6/12, David <[email protected]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], > Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > Komar has decals for a PRR rib-side, two-bay open-top > hopper. The company ordered or built 30,256 cars > between 1905-1911, and they survived into the Sixties, some > of them even getting what I call the three-dimensional > keystone emblem. > > Those are the PRR GLa. The AM car isn't very close at all, > aide from having two hopper bays and seven side ribs. The > later PRR H31 is a much better choice, but even that has > some differences. > > The AM hopper *is* good for a raft of Virginian hoppers, and > one fairly small class of Wabash cars (also some offset-side > Wabash cars if you add the extruded panels). > > David Thompson ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
