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Allan hoppers
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:31:08 GMT
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new MOC here but it’s never too late to
pick up an old habit again. In a Dutch railway
magazine I saw an ad for MK Modelbouwstudio’s with a
picture of two hoppers. They seemed a nice prototype to do a model of so tried
their site for more pictures and found
these. From their site I also
learned that a Dutch heritage railway has
two of them. On their site I found
a picture of the prototype.
That was enough to get started. In what for me was a record time of one evening
I had a set of two. Quite happy
with the result. I might change the odd detail before showing them in public but
it won’t be anything dramatic.
These hoppers were built in the late 1940’s by Allan, a Dutch factory of rolling
stock and furniture. The company folded in 1959. The hoppers were kept in pairs
with fixed couplings and no buffers between them. They were in service for
nearly 40 years until they were replaced by
these in the mid 1980’s. Four
sets are still in use today; two are with heritage railways and two are with
Amsterdam public transport for tramway maintenance.
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