Dose anyone know I could find drawings of the BN/BNSF taconite cars because I have not seen them made and would like to have some on my layout.
Videos of the Southern Pacific taconite trains through the Royal Gorge and Tennessee Pass indicate that they were nothing other than normal coal hoppers, but taconite is so heavy that they were only about half full.
BNSF does have a fleet of fairly new Taconite Hoppers built for the BN before the merger, one of the books by Great Northern Pacific Publications (Robert del Grosso) has some good photographs but I don’t remember any drawings. Everybody else uses steel coal hoppers or old Jennies.
I would love to see someone come out with HO “modern” ore cars, the most recent ones on the market are based on real cars that are more than 50 years old now.