What happened with Proto 2000? I've been looking up and down to find some PS2CD/4750 Cubic Foot Rib Sided 3-Bay Covered Hopper kit's and I can't find any. Not even at Walthers.com I remember seeing a lot of them at shows and even special built a couple of them for one of our club member's/seller's. I am thinking about using a handful of them for the Walthers ADM grain elivator. Just something I am thinking of putting into my layout design. If nothing else I really do enjoy building these car's more than any other P2k car.
What happened with P2k.
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Walthers bought Life-Like a couple of years ago. They still make the P2K locos under the Walthers name. As far as the rolling stock, I think it has been all incorparated into the Walthers line of rolling stock.
Maybe the "Gold Line" that Walthers is offering. But thats just a guess.
Might want to check out the Walthers website.
Maybe the "Gold Line" that Walthers is offering. But thats just a guess.
Might want to check out the Walthers website.
The latest Walthers flyer shows a P2K 50' single door box car time-saver kit due out this November.
Perhaps Walthers is just now getting around to making the P2K kits again after the transition, and more will be out next year?
Just a thought ....
Perhaps Walthers is just now getting around to making the P2K kits again after the transition, and more will be out next year?
Just a thought ....
They're still transitioning, if you look, most of the P2K engines are just starting to come out under the Walthers name. I wish they'd just fully merge everything, instead of Gold/Silver line & P2k/P1k... Look how well the Roundhouse/Athearn line is now, since the Horizion "merge".
They'll get the P2K stuff sooner or later, you just might have to wait a tad longer. Good thing is, once the P2K stuff is realeased, it should NOT be a limited edition, "run" type thing as it was in the past.
They'll get the P2K stuff sooner or later, you just might have to wait a tad longer. Good thing is, once the P2K stuff is realeased, it should NOT be a limited edition, "run" type thing as it was in the past.
Well, I looked through what they have in P2k and all I found was mostly the 50's/transition era type car's to earlier. Like the 10K gal. tanks, ER. war hoppers, and as 50' single door box cars like IAIS said. The only thing modern that I ever found from P2K was these hopper's, everything else was just for the steam and transition era. These car's from P2k were really nice cars. I wounder if anyone else has them in a kit with the same detail? I might ook back through Atlas to see what they might have. They maybe RTR but I'd prefer them as a kit sense I don't have anything to work on right now sense my benchwork isn't built yet.
PS2CD/4750 Cubic Foot Rib Sided 3-Bay Covered Hopper kit's for grain but this brought another question to me sense I also want to model a cement plant. Do they use the same type of car or something different?
I was just looking at Athearn and Atlas' site. Atlas doesn't have anything as far as grain car's but I'm thinking for cement because I have 3 Walthers 100 ton Ortner hoppers. I've seen these car's used for carrying PS2? type rock that would be unloaded into a small underground room with a conveyor big enough for one man to fit into. It was unloaded and conveyed in to the storage yard. I think from there it was either crushed to powder for cement or used as the packed foundation of cement right before it was poured. The rock is a flat type of gray and had gray dust mixed with it. I seen Athearn has the PS2CD/4750 Cubic Foot Rib Sided 3-Bay Covered Hopper's in single and 5 packs. However I'd rather build them from kit's that provide more detail than those. It probably wouldn't be to bad if they had them in the Genis. series. I found some others by another producer and they are knocked out in detail for a RTR car but at $30 a pop I can do without them.
The P2K is a 4427cf. I think Intermountain is the only one with a 4750, and if you can find the kits they are prety reasonably priced compaired to the RTR. Toy train heaven has the P2K 4427s in stock.
Tim
Tim
kitsune said:
Roundhouse used to make a nice 2 bay covered hopper that works great for a cement hopper. I don't know if they are still available since Horizon bought Roundhouse.