I have a set of 3 K-Line yellow with blue lettering coal hoppers and I was wondering did this paint scheme really exist and for how long into the N&W merger? I can't find one picture of that paint scheme of a real hopper and I am guessing that K-Line may have made these to match the Trainmasters that were made in O scale.
BTW I am thinking of selling or trading them to acquire other rolling stock that interchanged into the mid 70s for Erie Lackawanna.
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Prototypical? Not in the slightest. Virginian hoppers were black with white lettering.
Ken
@Chas posted:I am guessing that K-Line may have made these to match the Trainmasters that were made in O scale.
Good guess.
If the yellow w/blue stripe Trainmasters were that popular and inspiring to the hobby industry, can a bright yellow w/blue stripe painted Vision Line Allegheny be very far behind? I mean, after the Daylight ptd cab-forwards and the more recent Valley Flyer ptd 2-10-10-2's artistic mayhem license apparently knows no bounds.
And, Scott!...Thank you for sparing that paint scheme from the EL-2B's, and perish any thoughts thereof for the upcoming limited run of Alleghenys!! 
Often have wondered about all the VGN Blue 'booses, too.
(And I thought Williams' Pink GG1 was the penultimate of preposterous paint for a Pennsylvania paradigm!!
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I know...it's part of the...fun.
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