A blast from the past! ("new" Concor)

[Mark5]

Heh, none of those hoppers are foobs, right? (I bet this is 1970 era tooling)


Anyone here ever own the funnel flow tank car? IIRC the models originally appeared in the 1980s.

Is it based on anyting real?

Mark

[Ed Kapuscinski]

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BNSF Wedgie 70t Offset Hoppers?

What are they smoking out there?


(I bet they're going to sell a ton of them)

[DKS]

I like how Mark's avatar works perfectly with the ad...

Oh, and I used to own a couple of the funnel flows. They would literally fall apart, and the paint flaked off if you looked at it cross-eyed.

[sirenwerks]

Yikes!

[asarge]

The Greenvilles maybe the best of their offerings off that flyer. Every Funnel Flow that we ordered for the shop had to have the endrails and other parts put back on the cars.

[Hyperion]

An Extra $5 Well-Spent

[rochsub]

The couplers seem interesting.  Anyone with experience with them out there?

Daryl

[up1950s]

The couplers seem interesting.  Anyone with experience with them out there?

Daryl

Yes it is

http://www.all-railroads.com/

[davefoxx]

The couplers seem interesting.  Anyone with experience with them out there?

Daryl

If the couplers are non-operating or "dummy" couplers, then what's the trip pin for?!  Con-Cor advertises that you will save $4.00 to $6.00 retail per car, if you use their coupler.  I don't need to save money that badly, if they're non-operating.  I can see an advantage to those modelers who don't break up their unit trains, though.

DFF

[DKS]

If the couplers are non-operating or "dummy" couplers, then what's the trip pin for?!

See: http://www.all-railroads.com/
 

In keeping with our desire to have a realistic coupler, we even designed in a fake "trip pin" which simulates the between car air-hoses, but also when mixed in a train of Micro-Train brand couplers, you can not tell the difference between Con-Cor and MicroTrains even when only inches away!

[davefoxx]

If the couplers are non-operating or "dummy" couplers, then what's the trip pin for?!

See: http://www.all-railroads.com/
 

In keeping with our desire to have a realistic coupler, we even designed in a fake "trip pin" which simulates the between car air-hoses, but also when mixed in a train of Micro-Train brand couplers, you can not tell the difference between Con-Cor and MicroTrains even when only inches away!

Yeah, I saw that, but, to me, the trip pins are a dead giveaway in a photo that a model is fake.  They have never simulated air hoses, in my perspective, and are an eyesore.  I lop 'em off, because I don't use the magnetic uncoupling feature of knuckle couplers.

DFF

[inkaneer]

Well for one thing the PRR offset side is a foob.  The PRR had only one offset side hopper and it was a Clas H27 eleven rib 6 bay 90ton hopper built in 1930.  # was 220300.  The rest of the vast PRR coal hoppers were ribside.  The reason was that coal was acidic and when wet would corrode the exposed welds on offset hoppers but rib side hoppers had the welds on the outside of the car where they did not come in contact with the coal.  Concor is doing three numbers and the car is black.  I thought prewar Pennsy hoppers were red.

Also regarding the couplers "rigid jaw" would imply non operating but notice the shank.  It has the same  shank end as the McHenry, Accumate and the MT 1015.   Unless the new Bachmann operating coupler is different this may be the death knell for the "T" shank coupler. 

[asarge]

I almos thhad a heart attack with Hyperions car until I realized it was an Athearn HO LPG and not a funnel flow. Sure wish somebody would do Shelf couplers in N.

[Chris333]

So do we subtract $4-$6.00 per car on these new releases?

[Hyperion]

Better subtract about $10 to make them worth the money.

The stuff looks like the Model Power stuff you can get for like $4-6.