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Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 10/09/2014 :  08:47:28 AM     Hmm, it looks like it needs a little reconstructive plastic surgery. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33292 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 10/09/2014 :  08:58:14 AM       Is the covered hopper HO scale? If so, the die work makes me think Kadee. Country: USA | Posts: 6804 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/09/2014 :  10:27:31 AM     quote: Originally posted by jbvb Is the covered hopper HO scale? If so, the die work makes me think Kadee. Nope. O Scale and made of wood and metal castings - Quality Craft kit, I think. quote: ...a little reconstructive plastic surgery.... I was hoping to avoid the use of styrene!! In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 bitlerisvj Fireman Posted - 10/14/2014 :  10:37:34 AM     Wow Martin, that looks just like an HO Air Slide hopper (Ambroid/Northeastern) that I picked up for $2. It will be a big job to restore it. Regards, Vic B. Country: USA | Posts: 1452 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/14/2014 :  5:46:14 PM     quote: Originally posted by bitlerisvj Wow Martin, that looks just like an HO Air Slide hopper (Ambroid/Northeastern) that I picked up for $2. It will be a big job to restore it. Regards, Vic B. I decided to skip much of the jigsaw re-assembly approach and just re-did the ends using brass angle, adding new ladders, stirrup steps, re-building the one hatch, made hatch supports, added the air line castings. Just sitting on a pair of Lobaugh trucks right now. What I need and do not have is a spare replacement roof walk for this car. In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 quartergauger48 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 10/14/2014 :  7:18:54 PM     Martin, Was the lettering all ready installed when you got the kit. I have built several All Nation Metal/wood O gauge cars. But Iv never saw a closed hopper before this one. Great work on the additions you have added...Very NICE Work..... Ted Country: USA | Posts: 6183 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/14/2014 :  8:21:44 PM     quote: Originally posted by quartergauger48 Martin, Was the lettering all ready installed when you got the kit. I have built several All Nation Metal/wood O gauge cars. But Iv never saw a closed hopper before this one. Great work on the additions you have added...Very NICE Work..... Lettering - decals were on the car when I got it. If they had been in really bad shape I would have removed them, and started looking for some that I could use to replace the data sections and then letter it for CVRR! Hmmmmm..... I just might do that anyway! It's an old Gloor Craft // Quality Craft wood kit car that came with a bag of metal detail parts. You can still find them NIB on eBay and at swap meets. If I can track down a roof walk I could finish this one off in a evening or 3. In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 quartergauger48 Fireman Premium Member Posted - 10/14/2014 :  9:34:00 PM     So as I thought. It is not a All Nation kit, just some all nation parts included..........with the other kit....As far as I understand it,, A.N. , only made box and coach cars.......It is difficult to find those parts from 50 + years ago............... Ted Country: USA | Posts: 6183 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/15/2014 :  10:53:09 AM     Could be an scale Ambroid kit.... AN also made kits for reefers, cabooses, tank cars, and at least 1 hopper. Some parts are not all that hard to locate at the various shows and swap meets. Posting a WTB over on the O Scale Yard Sale Yahoo group can be useful, too. In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/20/2014 :  10:18:49 AM     No idle hands allowed in the shop so on to the next car while waiting for a replacement roof walk to arrive for the hopper car. This one is more than a little rough and I've already removed some bits, but I think I'll be stripping it down basic body working around the doors and windows. Looks like Walthers car bolsters on a RailCraft kit car....that weighs a few pounds. I think there's a sash weight inside this one!!! Going to have to re-do the roof and ends and sides, and........the whole car! In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 10/20/2014 :  10:22:54 AM     This one does indeed look a little 'rough around the edges', Martin. Bruce Country: USA | Posts: 33292 George D Moderator Premium Member Posted - 10/20/2014 :  10:39:33 AM     Most people would call that a basket case. It will be interesting to see what you can do with it. George Fly Army Country: USA | Posts: 16788 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 10/20/2014 :  11:14:53 AM     quote: Originally posted by George D Most people would call that a basket case. It will be interesting to see what you can do with it. Getting it back onto the track will be a bit of a challenge, I'm more concerned about the weight!!! May be a basket case, but I've taken on a few of those grade cars in past and found them very suitable for use as scenery items - think yard offices, old abandoned cars setting on an overgrown siding in woods.... Had an early Hawk models pickle vat car that I used to make a display module a few years ago along with a Thomas bobber caboose that was missing a few parts. Made a nice seed in the woods for a group of moonshiners, In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. Country: USA | Posts: 2350 mwbpequod Fireman Posted - 11/12/2014 :  6:34:39 PM     Ok, skipping forward over a few intermediary steps to..........painted and ready to letter...close to acceptable.... In a time like ours seemings and portents signify. Ours is a generation when dogs howl and the skin crawls on the skull with its beast's foreboding. 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