BLI PRR/PC/CR H32 Covered Hoppers are in!

[ai5629]

I will have CR brown and gray for sale if anyone is interested.  Thank you.

Jeff

[towl1996]

My cars (red CK) just arrived, and they are nice. So far I'm impressed with the BLI offerings I have, the H2a and now the H32 are winners, but I haven't run them yet. The K7 should be nice as well. This gives hope that the M1 and BH-50 will be quality models, apples and oranges I know. Just wished they offered the cars as singles.

[haasmarc]

I bought a 4 pack of all 4 PRR schemes and both PC schemes.  They shipped to day.  I will have extras.

[Mark5]

Got mine. A unique prototype so I had to have one.

Nice but a little disappointing - the ladders on the ends seem a bit crude compared even with the Trainman PS2. Check out the brake wheel.

The couplers are MTL knockoffs. I had to force one end to get it to couple to the BLMA car. Maybe it needs some graphite. 

I'm disappointed with the contour of the faces of the wheels - a probable upgrade will come once I know what axle length BLI is using.

Here's some pics:









Mark

[peteski]

Careful Mark, you migth be considered nicpicky (even though it is TRW).  I made similar comments about another car (that was was in a test-shots stage) and my commments weren't well received.

I agree that some details (you mentioned) are rather crude - but it seems to have a photoetched (not plastic) roofwalk.  That makes everything else ok.   

I got one of those (friend bought the multi-pack and split it up) but I haven't received mine yet. 

[Mark5]

I'm pretty well known to be nit-picky 

Yes, the roofwalk is etched metal.

The service date is 1962 on this car, eventually I'll weather it a bit and it'll fit nicely in my early 70s layout.

Mark

[Jesse6669]

and brake wheel, trucks, and couplers should be easy enough to replace if desired, but yeah the bar is ever rising.   

[Chris333]

Compare it to a FVM H30.

Brake wheel is the same as the pre-production photos.

[Mark5]

Yeah, maybe the brake wheel is supposed to look like that. I couldnt find many photos of this class.

[haasmarc]

I have extras for sale.  Please see my post in the Trading Post section for details.

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=35898.0

[Wardie]

Forgive me for not knowing, but I haven't ever seen any photos of these in Maine, what did the prototype haul and how far away from the PRR/PC/CR did they roam?

[Chris333]

I had to replace the wheels. The stock ones are very wide and narrow in gauge.  The Fox Valley H30's have finer details.

[Cajonpassfan]

Does anyone have a red CK to sell?
Or, does anyone know a dealer who sells these individually?
I really can't justify more than one on my layout (if that), but really want to have such a unique car...
Regards, Otto K.

[christoph]

I tried mine today and first thing was that I lost a wheelset.  Could not find it on the floor, so I replaced one truck with FVM 3310, they slipped right in the truck.
Does anybody know which type of truck this is?

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Pretty sure it's a Symington 70T truck.