Model Railroading > Showing pink!

Here's a lightly weathered American Limited Trinity 3281 covered hopper. Some paint modifications were in order------roofwalk painted silver, top roof surface painted gray, roof hatches painted light gray and bottom gates painted reefer gray............

 

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I'm always down for a little pink.

Your mods were severely needed--American Limited dropped the ball. Now it looks much more respectable: more proto; less toyish.

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So are you in Kansas? Noticing the tornadoes on your backdrops. That is quite a storm.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Is this a real car or fantasy?  On railcar websites there are no pink cement hoppers that are Halliburton.  Did American Limited just make this a fantasy car?  

Lotta detail in these shots.
JB

Cliffs619 Wrote:
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> Is this a real car or fantasy?  On railcar
> websites there are no pink cement hoppers that are
> Halliburton.  Did American Limited just make this
> a fantasy car?  

They're real.........
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4190546,4190546#msg-4190546

Halliburton has many hoppers transporting sand for fracking (proppant) Most were gray, and not all were Trinity builds. (NSC or Gunderson) There are only a few pink ones(All Trinity that I've seen), I've seen 7 and they were all moving thru La Crosse, Wisconsin at the time I took the photos that Am Limited asked me for and used to make the car. To be fair to them, I couldn't get shots of the roof without MAJOR trespassing as they were a bit distant in the BNSF yard. So American Limited didn't have roof color detail, or much lower detail.

Dave Burman
modeling the modern Twin Cities
Trempealeau, WI



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/17 12:27 by bnsftcdiv.

CSX_ENG Wrote:
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> They're real.........
> http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4190546,4190546#msg-4190546

And another one in this thread: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4162129,4162129#4162129

Nice work on all three cars.

Man! that is one pink PINK!