MTL PS-2 Hopper Photo

Here is a photo posted by the MTL folks on Yahoo! of the forthcoming PS-2 Hoppers (ATSF)

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Nice little beauties. Thanks for the pictures.

 

!@#*! mg: I gotta' get some o' those! And with the GN decals I recieved from generous Pray59, They'll be GN cars real soon!!!

 

PS-2 hoppers

They do look very nice. What would be the time period of the prototype?

 

the PS-2 hopper was built from the mid 60s through the late 70s (if not later)

these specific models are from the early 1970s I believe (like 1973 or thereabouts)

 

Please forgive my ignorance but was this style of hopper ever used by the Pennsylvania RR Co?

 

From the Atlas N scale site:

"Built by Pullman Standard starting in the late 1940's and into the 1950's, the PS-2 Covered Hoppers were used to transport granular bulk commodities, such as cement, soda ash, sand and grain. "

And Atlas did do it in PRR as I have one.
Here is a Kadee HO model:
http://www.kadee.com/ca/ps2/jpg/8321l.jpg
Real thing
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr258075d.jpg

 

H34 ?
have a look at:
http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?sel=hopp&sz=sm&fr=ge
best rgrds
Chris

 

They're also in the current Z-Track magazine.

 

Thank you Chris & Bambuko for the links, this means I now have another type of wagon to add to the roster when MTL releases them in PRR colours.

 

I am pretty sure that they were being produced after the 50's ... but that might have been a rebuild program

 

here is my list of available PRR cars:
Chris :shade: