Buried Treasure

I don't have it set up right now, so a link will have to do. http://www.lionel.com/products...t-steam-set-6-30183/ Mixed with Long Island RR coaches Lionel sold at the same time look amazing.

Arnold, Merry Christmas.

Arnold, That’s fantastic! I too discovered one of these magnificent die cast K line hoppers.I remember selling off 3 of them in a lawn sale and could not find the Peabody one. Until one late night I was looking for something or other scale part and there in the recesses of the tub was a wrapped something! There it was the Peabody yellow hopper. By the way these sound amazing with their free spinning metal wheels on sprung trucks. I ran my group of four with a post war F3 what a powerhouse!
those PRR and FORD hoppers are awesome!

I really meant it when I said buried treasure, with emphasis on treasure. These K-Line diecast hoppers are outstanding. See them being hauled by an MTH RailKing Proto 1 Jersey Central FM Trainmaster:

Although those K-Line hoppers are very heavy, they glide easily along the track with their fast angle wheels. They also have very nice detail with doors on the bottom that manually open and close and with sprung trucks. Arnold

Yep.  Was putting away what I THOUGHT was an empty box, but it turned out to have a water tower inside, that I had completely forgot about buying.  Score!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I really meant it when I said buried treasure, with emphasis on treasure. These K-Line diecast hoppers are outstanding. See them being hauled by an MTH RailKing Proto 1 Jersey Central FM Trainmaster:

Although those K-Line hoppers are very heavy, they glide easily along the track with their fast angle wheels. They also have very nice detail with doors on the bottom that manually open and close and with sprung trucks. Arnold

Got to agree with you on your evaluation of the K-Line d/c 4 bay hoppers. I had 13 of them that I ran on the SD 3Railers layout but unfortunately 13 must have been an unlucky number. One of the cars of the 4 car set of Chessie/C&O ended up with one end falling apart from zinc pest.