Looking to add a L&N hopper or two to my P&LE line…
had a question about paint scheme’s and their dates… bowser makes to L&N 100 ton hoppers, so i know both are fairly modern… one is in black and the other in the orange… anyone know the relative dates of when these were in operation? many thanks in advance
If you go to the prototype information section of the Model Railroading forum you will find this information in a thread about L&N’s orange hoppers in my post, and notes on the black and white paint scheme in a post by wdlgln005.
I don’t mind looking up this info. The Atlas model is the same # as the one pictured on p96 of the Morning Sun book! Cars of this design trace back to PRR-C&O-N&W developments around 1960. Chief spotting feature are the slope sheets at a steeper angle than the hopper sheets. What’s cool about them is the orange color. It must have been quite dirty in service! No wonder later on thet were repainted into the black/white scheme. I suppose you could simulate rusty bits repaired with new steel sheets!
For your P&LE, they must have had some USS plants online to get trainloads of metal grade coal. There’s pictures of mill gons also in the orange/black/white scheme. The L&N appears to paint many cars in a scheme different from “standard” to be used in pool service.
many thanks for this info guys… the l&n orange certainly must have been dirty… ive seen a couple photos and they looked anything but clean… but the orange is such a standout, and i really wouldnt mind having one on the line for some flavor… as for us steel, there certainly were plants within service of the p&le and connector lines off the p&le… so that makes the l&n orange even more likely to have had some presence
A link would have been helpful as I can even find the prototype info section much less your post.
What time period are you modeling? I’ve seen L&N Hoppers in black, brown, and I believe they also had some grey ones but I’m not too sure. I will go with my first two colors.