was the Gloor Craft/Quality Craft hopper. If you have ever
tried to make wood look like steel, then you know how frus-
trating it can be, so most of us began to substitute .020”
plastic for the sides. While this did the job, it was at a time
when we didn’t have the CA glue to attach the metal castings
in the kit. Then we were fortunate to have the C&BT hopper
come on the market, allowing us to have a fleet of hoppers
where we didn’t tear out our hair building them. These two
kits were also available in O scale, so we had sympathy from
our large-scale brethren. Blackstone entered the market two
years ago, and now offers a ready-to-run version of this car in
HO with several different paint schemes and in both weath-
ered and unweathered version.
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12. Clinch River 870 is a C&BT Shops plastic model and
the EBT 912 is a Gloor Craft wood model. Both are HOn3.
