MTH Dealers. Here are a few PS-2 covered hoppers you should make.

@jim sutter posted:

Would one of you please make some of the following cars.

This one has been made before (20-97122), I have one that I two-railed. The others I do not know about but then maybe you meant for them to be made again.

EDIT: I wouldn't mind getting the BEACON FEEDS one if it were released/re-released.

Weren't they already made? They're right there.

D500, The only one, I remember MTH making was the Carborundum one. The Weaver Train Company made all of them back in nineties.

Jim, that Weaver PS-2 car in Wayne Feeds livery got me started in O Gauge railroading. I attended Trainfest in Milwaukee over twenty years ago just to support a friend who ran HO.  I saw the Weaver Grain Train cars in front of a Lionel grain elevator.  From there, I discovered Protosound 1.  It was all over.

Golden Prairie Railroad,

Those Weaver Wayne Feeds PS-2 covered hoppers were made for are store back in the nineties. There was four different Wayne Feeds cars made.

Jim, right after that Trainfest, I started with an MTH PS1 Rock Island E8 ABA (long ago converted to PS2) and two PS2 Rock Island Geeps. For the latter I scrounged around for every Weaver Wayne Feeds PS-2 hopper I could find. Then I discovered the Grain Train and IH hoppers and hopped on those. So you are spot on about the PS-2 hoppers.

In fact, the chances are that I bought no few PS-2 hoppers from you twenty + years ago--and no few more cars and engines until you retired.

Ed,

Thank you for your business. My favorite car to have custom painted was the Weaver PS-2 covered hopper. Weaver always did a fantastic job in painting those

cars. Joe and his people were so easy to work with. Ed, I suggest you contact Beth Marshall "The Public Delivery Track". Her phone number is  805-226-0320.

Her e-mail address is  pdt212@gmail.com.  She is on the west coast in California. She still has a large selection of Weaver cars.

Yes, I have bought a few Weaver cars from Beth within the last year. I got all excited about outside braced boxcars and lost control again. Fortunately I am what my late wife's son call "debt averse," so I know how to control these outbursts.

Being debt averse is a good thing. That's one of the things that allowed me to retire at 55 years of age.

These guys were given their freedom last week, and, sent to a new home. I think you had a hand in producing some of them also. Right Jim?

Mark, the only one we didn't do was the green CP Rail. The British Columbia one was my second custom run. There were only (100)  made. I believe we did (150)  of each of the Ontario Northland. There was (150) of the red Canada ones.

Thanks for the info Jim. You have an eye for these gorgeous paint schemes!

Jim,

I love this thread, but I have a gentle suggestion.

The title tells us who it's intended for, but not what it's about.  Could you update it?

Among other things this will help in the future when any of us are scanning through search results if using the forum search.

Mike

Mike, Regarding your suggestion, the heading has been changed.