Front Range Covered Hoppers

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Below are photos of my Front Range covered hoppers. These kits are out of production and well represent the WM cars. The ends of the car do not have the "bird cage" feature of the B&O and C&O cars, but I am overlooking that short coming. I usually find undecorated or ones decorated for other roads. I don't think Front Range ever made a decent Chessie one, but the WM ones below were factory decorated. The rest are custom painted and decaled. This the most common class of car on the East End, as the Penn Glass & Sand Facility (US Silica) at Berkeley Springs created hundreds of loads a year of sand on the East End.

HC-41 Class (WM 604950-604999):
WM 604942 (Purchased decorated second-hand, this is a bogus road #, but I live with it)

WM 604966 (Purchased as a decorated kit, second-hand) Note: For some unknown reason, more often than not, this class of WM covered hoppers was missing their COTS stencils (the large black squares on the bottom right of most cars). I have CSX era photos of these cars riding the rails in the late 80's, still missing a COTS stencil. It is the only class of car I've seen missing them at such a late date. 99% of cars got them in the mid 70s. Two of my three WM cars are modeled missing the stencils.

WM 604989 (Purchased as a decorated kit, but a bogus number. Renumbered to a correct number)

WM 604993 (Purchased decorated and second-hand)

Chessie WM 604999 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

HC-44 Class (B&O 605000-499, C&O 604600-999, 605500-899):
Chessie C&O 604762 (Purchased second-hand, stripped and custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie C&O 604833 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie C&O 604880 (Purchased decorated second-hand as C&O 604725, reworked and custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605000 (Purchased second-hand, stripped and custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605009 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605035 (Purchased second-hand, stripped and custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605091 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605093 (Purchased decorated for C&EI, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605110 (Purchased second-hand, stripped and custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605147 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605187 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605196 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)

Chessie B&O 605215 (Purchased as an undec kit. Custom painted and decaled by me.)

Chessie B&O 605321 (Purchased as an undec kit, custom painted and decaled by me)

Chessie B&O 605416 (Purchased undecorated second-hand, custom painted by me to the paint job you see below)