Hi,I´m Christian,
I´m search the info about the lengh or what for a model is a good start in HO for NYC freigth car 885900/ to see on www.rr-fallenflags.org .
Thanks forward!
Here’s the proper link to the photo. Usually helps.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc885900ags.jpg
This car is a cylindrical covered hopper built by ACF. It’s similar to the Atlas car, but much longer. You could cut and splice a pair of Atlas cars together to get a car of this length, and take care to rebuild the hopper outlets to match the photo.
The Atlas cylindrical hopper is actually a PRR H44, if I remember correctly. I suppose you could cut up a pair of these, but it would be a lot of work.
As it turns out, car 885900 happens to be listed in the April 1986 “Official Railway Equipment Register”. It is in the NYC section of the Conrail listing. The car is described as a Center Flow covered hopper, A.A.R. car type code C212. The C212 means that it is a " Covered Hopper; 2 - pneumatic unloading - non-pressurized, for unloading by means of vacuum or suction equipment with receiver’s facilities without capability of gravity discharge into a hopper; 1 - LO (covered hopper); 2 - 3000 but less than 4000 cubic foot capacity ."
According to the register, the car has an inside length of 46 feet 6 inches and an outside length of 59 feet.
Atlas made a similar covered hopper. This was a 6-bay car. However, as already mention above, the Atlas car is shorter. Roughly scaling a model I have, the inside length would be about 41’ 6" and the outside length about 51’.
I’ve not seen any model similar to your picture. I believe that either Model Power or LifeLike had a covered hopper model longer than the Atlas car, but any further similarity between those models and your picture would be coincidental.