DSSX Salt Hopper question

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DSSX Salt Hopper question

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I'm attempting to model (in N) a few of the DSSX salt hoppers that used to come through GR. The ones I'm looking to model are the PS-2D 5000-5100 series. After several web searches it seems that there was no standard hatch arrangement on this type of PS car. Does anyone have pictures of the rood detail of one of the DSSX salt hoppers that they would share? Been all through the RR archive sites, Google searches and even Ebay looking for H or even HO scale hoppers but I've nothing definitive about the roof type (round hatches or oval centerline hatches) of these cars. Any help would be appreciated. TIA.
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I'm pretty sure the closest model that replicates these cars in N scale are the Atlas Trainman BNSF 3-bay grain hoppers. I have a few of them and thought about patching them to DSSX as well.

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The Athearn ones are pretty close too. I just can't tell from my photos or ones on the net what types of hatches these cars have.
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Conrail switches the Detroit Salt Works on the Junction Yard Running track. Most if not all of the cars are second hand with the long trough hatches. But I have seen the small round hatches as well.

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It seems that this style is the one I most often see with DSSX markings. Note the side vertical bracings (5 space 3 space 5). I don't know if they make an N Scale version, though. Pic courtesy of SD80MAC :)
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You mean cnw8835, not 80MAC, right?

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LSRC wrote:You mean cnw8835, not 80MAC, right?
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When I lived in New Haven, I saw several DSSX cars at the NS yard in town. The majority were second hand 3 bay covered hoppers of various manufacturers, but I did see several of the 2 bay covered hoppers like the one pictured in a previous post. The best one I got to see was an ex Conrail ACF Centerflow car that started showing its PRR logo under all of its paint :)
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He wanted N scale, not HO there, Bubba.

https://www.exactrail.com/model-trains? ... &scale=151

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LSRC wrote:He wanted N scale, not HO there, Bubba.

https://www.exactrail.com/model-trains? ... &scale=151
Thanks LSRC, I caught this earlier but didn't reply. I think I'm just going to wing it on the roof hatches until someone can show me a photograph of the roof on one of the DSSX cars. It looks like PS built these cars either way depending on the original RR who ordered them.
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Re: DSSX Salt Hopper question

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Is this the same type of car you're looking for, Steven? It's DSSX 5086, although the photo was taken on the CN, not CSX.

Although you can't see the roof very well, from the side angle it looks like it has the trough style hatches.

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Someone posted that Exactrail had produced a version of this car in HO. I don't follow HO very closely, but they do produce one that is similar (it's a covered hopper) in N:
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Re: DSSX Salt Hopper question

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Sorry to bring up an old post but my question is appropriate to the topic. I'm looking to add some Michigan region cars into my model railroad roster for my layout. Does anyone know approximately when Detroit Salt started acquiring their own hopper fleet? I cant find any pics before the early 2000s but it seems freight car pics in the age before digital cameras are kind of uncommon, especially private fleets
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