Question about Southern Railway steam era hoppers

All 3 of those cars would be prototypical for the Southern. The weaver and MTH Southern composite hoppers where built during the WWII restriction. After the war was over I think they where then rebuilt with full metal side with the bracing.

To be honest, from my experiences with trying to accurately model N&W and B&O hoppers, Atlas O is your best bet if they've made any Southern hoppers as they really do pay attention to road specific hopper classes. There was almost always something wrong with Weaver or MTH as most times they just put a paint job on a generic model hopper that may not be correct for a given road name.

Thanks Sean and Nick. I cannot find a picture of the cars in service.  If anyone has a pic please post it. Will be much appreciated.

I may be able to scare up a couple of B&W printouts from a defunct website.  Is there an email address I could send them to?

Try jhtmd1"at"gmail"dot"com

Thanks Bill

If you look behind the gondola you can see a composite hopper in the back ground. So far this is the only picture I've been able to find.