Continuing on the theme of my previous post, here’s a shot of TH&B slab side hopper 2852 and 2804. Despite the fact that the weathering might look overdone, these cars were very dirty from carrying cement loads.
Like the CP car that posted photos of yesterday, these were weathered with oils mixed by eye in a range of greys and then finished of with pastels.
Ontario in HO Scale 
Keep it up and you’ll have me modelling southern Ontario in HO scale in the 1980s. Sheesh.
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C’mon, you’re not going to tear up your beautiful branch line. 😉 You can just build some HO stuff and run on my (future) layout.
Hunter:
Actually the white load staining common to most TH&B covered hoppers and a number of Boxcars was due to phosphate loads from Port Maitland.
Yes. Thanks for pointing that out.
I think I had that information way back in my grey matter somewhere but lost track of it over the years. You’ve given me cause to wonder about something. On the WRMRC, we’re running the TH&B slab side hoppers in a pool of cars used for carrying cement on the Little Current sub. I’ve always assumed that this was historically correct, or at least reasonable and plausible. But now I’m curious to know if this was actually the case. I’m going to pose this question to Lance. He might have primary documents on this.
Thanks for posting. Did you notice that I used your decals on the 70 ton hoppers I built last summer? Nice product, by the way.