TT scale trains and models

Thinking that this might pass the test with a little kitbashing on an N A layout. but at 50 $ a pop that would get quite expensive.

Can you elaborate a bit more on what we're looking at?

gerhard_k wrote:Can you elaborate a bit more on what we're looking at?

German covered hoppers.

For all I know about modern equipment it could well be passable, the white one more so than the brown one. Of course the buffers would need removing.

Yeah, as I look at it, if you put it in one of the Government of Canada wheat car schemes I think it would look passable!

Marquette wrote:

gerhard_k wrote:Can you elaborate a bit more on what we're looking at?

German covered hoppers.

For all I know about modern equipment it could well be passable, the white one more so than the brown one. Of course the buffers would need removing.

Yeah, as I look at it, if you put it in one of the Government of Canada wheat car schemes I think it would look passable!

Almost correct
The white car is a Czech covered hopper for lime dust, the brown seems to be a German covered hopper for grain.

I don't know, I've never seen anything looking like either of those two cars in this part of the country. To me, they have a distinctly "European" look.

Bill in FtL

Well maybe...
If you trimmed off the "flying buttresses" on the ends of the hopper, and added NA-style end cages and roof walks...

The second car (the brown one) would be more passable than the first, with some modifcications. Then again, if the model works for you, then go for it. Third, European style cars on North American rails are not entirely unrealistic, as there are some cars (primarily specialty cars, such as the Schnabel car, for example) that are of European design and/or sourcing that retain their European looks, even after "Americanizing".