Weaver Hoppers???

Check one of their last catalogs.  If the car is marked as "Made in the USA" it went to Lionel.  Atlas got all car mode;s that were made in China.  This is what was reported in other threads.  Their 2013 shows all the hoppers were made in the USA.

Jan

I read the same threads about the us stuff.   As far as I know all the open hoppers were made in the USA.

Thanks guys!

The 3-Bay Ribbed Hoppers on page 4 and the 3-Bay Offset Hoppers on page 5 were both made in the USA, so LIONEL (not Atlas) will hopefully be offering them soon.  I'll email LIONEL to see if they will do them in SAL paint.

Does a LIONEL rep visit the forum anymore?

The Woodchip Hoppers don't have the USA logo next to them so I suspect Atlas didn't get them?

Rob Psiani is no longer with Atlas,who was our rep on this site last year. I emailed him photos of Family Lines 4750s last year. I called Atlas this week & was told this as I wanted to ask him something which it's been over 5 minutes ago,so I have no idea what it was anymore.

So do we have "eyes & ears" here anymore? I was forwarded to a man who's 1st name was "Bill," is all I know for sure. Sure wish Atlas would do some of those hoppers as well as others & rerun long out of stock cars.

Al Hummel

I wouldn't bother Atlas. Try Lionel as the Weaver hoppers were USA made, and, according to previous posts, Lionel would now have ownership of the tooling.

Thanks Bob for keeping me straight.  I must have read the above posts 3 times and still read Atlas into the equation 

Well, I know Lionel visits the forum, I'll check their site to see who I need to email.

LIONEL has a Facebook page. Mention the Weaver Models freight cars on their page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages...-Trains/135645573344

Andrew

Alan Hummel posted:

Rob Psiani is no longer with Atlas,who was our rep on this site last year. I emailed him photos of Family Lines 4750s last year. I called Atlas this week & was told this as I wanted to ask him something which it's been over 5 minutes ago,so I have no idea what it was anymore.

So do we have "eyes & ears" here anymore? I was forwarded to a man who's 1st name was "Bill," is all I know for sure. Sure wish Atlas would do some of those hoppers as well as others & rerun long out of stock cars.

Al Hummel

Funny, Rob was working the show in the Atlas booth yesterday, and rode in with me this morning.

Somebody has bad information.

We did not get the tooling for the Weaver hopper cars.  When we inquired about some of the other tooling that was not initially offered to us, it was already committed elsewhere.  I do not know where, though.

Paul,

Thank you someone sure was messed up!!

I need a throw bar for an Atlas 2 rail,number #5 switch,as an old #5 I bought with a track deal is missing the throw bar but for the most part,seems 99% ready to lay in place except for this. Can you help me?

Thank you,

Al Hummel

Thanks Paul I corrected my post above.

You guys at Atlas could always come up with your own hoppers

Hoppers carried more than just coal, a number of southern RRs used them to haul sand, clay, phosphate, gravel, and I'm sure a host of other commodities.  WoodChip cars are also in short supply.

Alan Hummel posted:

Paul,

Thank you someone sure was messed up!!

I need a throw bar for an Atlas 2 rail,number #5 switch,as an old #5 I bought with a track deal is missing the throw bar but for the most part,seems 99% ready to lay in place except for this. Can you help me?

Thank you,

Al Hummel

Please contact Bill Seratelli - he should be able to help you.

Bob Delbridge posted:

Thanks Paul I corrected my post above.

You guys at Atlas could always come up with your own hoppers

Hoppers carried more than just coal, a number of southern RRs used them to haul sand, clay, phosphate, gravel, and I'm sure a host of other commodities.  WoodChip cars are also in short supply.

We have a number of hoppers in O already.  We did one of our HO hoppers for Woodchip service, would you like to see it in O?

http://www.atlastrainman.com/I...1112/20001855_TQ.jpg

Lionel did get the USA tooling, including hoppers, except the H30. Don't expect any former Weaver products from Lionel until sometime in 2017. One of our club car committee members spoke to Mike Reagan regarding a project for a family member's brewery that Weaver had already produced a mock-up for, as well as our own club car program. Mike said nothing until at least then. 

Don

Hi DON,

  Was the brewery  Stegmaier?  Just wondering, but thanks for the info.  See you at YORK.

Hi Laz,

No, it's a newer micro brewery in the mid west, Bad Tom Smith's, in Ohio. Paul Fischer, who is a member here, was a Weaver dealer and a good friend of Joe Hayter, and a fellow club car committee member from another forum we both belong to. We offered a different car each year since 2007, until Joe decided to retire. As I mentioned, Paul had a wood side reefer mock-up made, and production was set to begin, but we all know the rest of the story.

Lionel plans on producing the car, and continuing with our club car program after completing mold inspection, and parts and equipment inventory. I had also posted in a previous thread that Joe told me Lionel decided to pursue another printing process other then the pad printing done by Weaver. It's kind of ironic, as Weaver pad printed projects for Lionel in the past.

Don

Paul Graf posted:

Bob Delbridge posted:

Thanks Paul I corrected my post above.

You guys at Atlas could always come up with your own hoppers

Hoppers carried more than just coal, a number of southern RRs used them to haul sand, clay, phosphate, gravel, and I'm sure a host of other commodities.  WoodChip cars are also in short supply.

We have a number of hoppers in O already.  We did one of our HO hoppers for Woodchip service, would you like to see it in O?

 

http://www.atlastrainman.com/I...1112/20001855_TQ.jpg

 

 

INDEED!!!

While you're at it, here's 2 SAL Wood Chip Hoopers that would be nice to have too:

I thought I read that those holes in the upper addition are for shaker arms/poles that shake the car to help get all the chips out.

Paul,

First let me congratulate you on the prototypical lettering scheme & correct paint on your Seaboard System 3510 covered hopper. That'd look great on a 4750 with different car #s of course.

We in the modern end of O scale,meaning the 80s to the present,would like to see 3281 cvd hoppers as 1 model of interest. We'd also like to see reruns of certain schemes such as CSX on your 4750 cvd hoppers as well as new schemes some of which I sent to Rob last year in photos.

1 thing that's never been done which is needed for tank cars as well as all modern freight cars such as the Atlas 5161 cvd hoppers, are shelf couplers,double shelf for tankers & single shelf for other freight as well as diesels. The double shelf have been required on hazardous material tankers since 1978 so why are our models lacking them? These are as much a detail as any other part of a model.

I contacted Bill last week about the throw bar with no response yet.

Thank you.

Al Hummel

Alan Hummel posted:

Paul,

First let me congratulate you on the prototypical lettering scheme & correct paint on your Seaboard System 3510 covered hopper. That'd look great on a 4750 with different car #s of course.

We in the modern end of O scale,meaning the 80s to the present,would like to see 3281 cvd hoppers as 1 model of interest. We'd also like to see reruns of certain schemes such as CSX on your 4750 cvd hoppers as well as new schemes some of which I sent to Rob last year in photos.

1 thing that's never been done which is needed for tank cars as well as all modern freight cars such as the Atlas 5161 cvd hoppers, are shelf couplers,double shelf for tankers & single shelf for other freight as well as diesels. The double shelf have been required on hazardous material tankers since 1978 so why are our models lacking them? These are as much a detail as any other part of a model.

I contacted Bill last week about the throw bar with no response yet.

Thank you.

Al Hummel

Since none of this has anything to do with Weaver hoppers (the original topic), you might be better served to start you own thread.

That's OK Alan, If I hadn't got side-tracked myself maybe nobody else would have either

I did email Lionel and got the standard canned response...blah-blah-blah, we'll take your suggestion into consideration...blah-blah-blah.  Still it was good to get a response from them and at least they are listening.