pnightshade2002
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Are there any grain hoppers in narrow gauge?
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What flavour of "narrow gauge"? 18, 24, 30, 36, 42in, ... . Then there's metric ... .
That's a new one to me. Here in the UK anything less than standard gauge is called narrow gauge.
Well the answer to the hopper question is yes but no.
prowler901's NG36" D&RGW F22 and F23 flatcars load Gold Medal Flower sacks. I've see partial door boxcar grain haulers in game but I believe they are all standard gauge.
There are actually several sack products in several sizes some of which ought to fit on narrow gauge flats, in gondolas, or in boxcars. For this kind of bulk in packaging do not forget barrels, there are numerous barrels of various sizes suitable for bulk stuff. I use barrels for hauling sugar on my St. Barbara Island route.
The problem is that the bread factory kuid2:50722:28050:2 only uses bulk flour kuid2:64577:910016:1
Well you could make your own either by adding or replacing a product in a queue to any existing rail car that does bulk or you can get creative.
Edit: well... this will be going up on the DLS today or tomorrow. Probably not what you wanted but it does haul flour.
That will work fine. I'm modeling 1920s and using primarily Prowler's K series locos. Yes I know they wouldn't have pulled flour to a bread factory but where is the fun in that If I knew how to convert the factory to pallets of flour, I would definitely be using boxcars or even flat cars with pallets on them.
I've added a V2 of the grain car and, after running through a lot of possible covered hopper stand-ins came up with a water car that kinda looks like a covered hopper and is a lot more to scale.
@nimec in the Content Manager - Category = Rolling Stock, Name = Skeleton should bring up quite a few. Most of the narrow gauge stuff is wooden framed.
Other sites
http://www.steammachine.com/slugsmasher/ss2_downloads_main.htm under Rolling Stock
http://trainzone.co.nz/freeware.htm under various links all sorts of stuff here.
My favorite logging rail cars are here http://trainzone.co.nz/logging.htm This set by narrowgauge is not interactive but they sure look good. don49plm apparently has a set like this in development for standard gauge.