CSX "Confederate" Coal Gondola

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I would like to know if any have been made, or if a creator would be interested in making this CSX "Confederate" style coal gondola. They were made in 1976-1977. Capacity 3885 cubic feet. AAR type is J311. Load limit on this one is 228,600 but it can vary a bit on each individual gondola in this series. Somewhere between 228,000 and 230,000 seems to be the norm. LT weight is 57,400. Plate B. Exterior length is 48ft 9in. Interior length is 45ft. I have many photos of these and are willing to have them used. All I ask is if a creator makes one of these, that a version is available for Trainz 12 and not just TANE. If there is interest, I have many real life prototype photos of many other train items.
 
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I like all sort's of Coal Hopper's and have quite a few drawings for the various types in the US but i have not seen any drawings for this particular type and is it actually called a confederate coal hopper ?, Would you know who made them ?.
Cheers Mick.
 
Confederate is a nickname given to this paint scheme. It was also used on some regular freight gondolas. I think this is a Bethgon Coalporter. It looks like Dave Snow has done one of these before. It looks great but it is the brand new type of look, and they just don't look that way anymore after 40 years now. The running numbers he used are the range 379500 to 379899, though I have never photographed any in that range. Here is a model of one.
http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Athearn-N-Coal-Porter-CSX-p/ath-11908.htm

 
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This may be what your looking for.

cloakedghost275 has some built-in Bethgons. Not sure what version of
Trainz they were included with, but the following should help find them.

CSX BethGon II (Industry Weathered),<kuid2:76096:15611:2>

-AL
 
I think they are steel as well which is the reason they are painted.

Yes they were the steel ones. It was before aluminum became popular for them. The ones by Dave Snow and Cloakedghost275 are both aluminum and unpainted from what I can tell. That is not a complaint because I think they are great models. But if anyone does ever want to do a painted steel version, there are photos out there.
 
The CSA had a large supply of aluminum which they used to make bullets, cannon barrels, wagon wheels, coins, sandwich wraps, etc.
 
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