Covered Hoppers


There are covered hopper walkways for the following types of cars
  • ACF
  • Canadian Grain Car
  • Pullman Standard
  • Airslide Covered Hoppers
  • FMC
  • Trinity PD 5000 Car
  • Plastic Pellet Car


    • ACF
    Two walkway patterns are available for the Athearn 55 ft. center flow car.
  • Morton round pattern
  • Apex slotted pattern


    • There are several special features in these walkway kits.
  • There are holes in the appropriate corners for grab irons.
  • The frames are nothing more than strips of brass etched to size with score lines on them. At these score lines, the modeler is required to bend these strips, forming the risers to hold the walkways.
  • Spacing between risers can be set by the modeler to match a chosen prototype, or use the given locations on a supplied paper drill template.

    There are two different packaging configurations for the walkways.
  • The Morton round pattern walkways come with all risers the same width.
  • The Apex slotted pattern walkways come with two different width risers for the alternating configuration.

    Small platforms over the couplers are another feature included in these kits.
    They too have frames to hold them in place.

    Part# Description Price
    110 ACF 55 ft. 4 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern-Athearn $9.25
    111 ACF 55 ft. 4 Bay Covered Walkway - Apex pattern- Athearn $9.25


    If your needs require a different riser than the ones we supply in the above kits, we offer the risers separately. Package include enough risers for one car.

    Part# Description Price
    118 Risers - ACF Hopper - SAME width - Athearn $2.00
    119 Risers - ACF Hopper - TWO widths - Athearn $2.00


    Three different one piece walkways for the Details Assoicates 2 bay ACF 2970cf covered hopper are ready to drop on, after you add the supplied brass risers.

    Part# Description Price
    076 ACF 2 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton - Detail Associates Car DISC
    077 ACF 2 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex - Detail Associates Car DISC
    078 ACF 2 Bay Covered Hopper Walkways - Gypsum - Detail Associates Car $7.25


    For the Atlas Trainman ACF 3560 covered hopper, I finally have an Apex pattern walkway available. The kit includes a one piece walkway, brass walkway supports (two widths), coupler platforms, drill template and instructions.

    Part# Description Price
    11036 CF 3560 Covered hopper walkway-Apex pattern-Atlas Trainman Car $8.50


    For the 70 ton 2 bay ACF hopper produced by Bowser, we have a replacement stainless steel walkway kit, which includes latteral platforms and a matching brake platform.

    Part# Description Price
    091 ACF 2Bay 70 Ton Cv'd Hop WW-Apex-Bowser Car $3.50


    Atlas and InterMountain make models of the ACF 4650cf covered hoppers. And they both come with metal Apex pattern walkways. Just incase someone needs a Morton pattern walkway, we have one that will fit either manufacturers model. Kit includes walkway, brass supports, coupler platforms and a drill template.

    Part# Description Price
    11041 3 Bay 4650 cf ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern $8.50

    If you have any of the 2 or 3 bay ACF hoppers once produced by Front Range, we have a couple kits available to fit those models. These kits include a four piece Apex walkway, brass supports and couple platforms. The 2 bay kit can be used on the InterMountain 2980 cf car.


    Part# Description Price
    102 2 Bay ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - Front Range car $7.50
    105 3 Bay ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - Front Range car $8.25


    Accurail 4600 ACF covered hopper.
    It took me a while but several replacement walkways are available for Accurails 4600 cf covered hoppers. Kits come with a stainless steel walkway, brass walkway supports, coupler platforms and a drill template.


    Part# Description Price
    11091 3 Bay 4600 cf ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - Accurail Model car $8.50
    11092 3 Bay 4600 cf ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - Accurail Model car $8.50
    11093 3 Bay 4600 cf ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - EarlyGypsum pattern - Accurail Model car $8.50
    11094 3 Bay 4600 cf ACF Covered Hopper Walkway - LateGypsum pattern - Accurail Model car $8.50




    Canadian Grain Car
    For the Canadian Grain Car produced by InterMountian Railway, this one piece stainless steel roofwalk will fit right on the car with no special skills required. Coupler platforms are also a part of this kit.

    Part# Description Price
    100 Canadian Grain Car Roofwalk - Apex pattern - InterMountain $8.25


    Listed below is a Morton pattern roofwalk found on some Scoular Cylindrical Hoppers

    Part# Description Price
    097 Cylindrical Hopper Walkway- Morton pattern - InterMountain $8.25


    For the ACF cylindrical hopper produced by Atlas, we have a replacement stainless steel walkway kit, which includes brass replacement supports to hold the walkway in place.

    Part# Description Price
    096 ACF Cylindrical Covered Hopper Walkway w/Risers-Atlas $9.50




    Pullman Standard
    Available for MDC's PS2 2 Bay hopper and ConCors (or E&B Valley) PS2 3 Bay hopper are Apex pattern walkways. To give the modeler more freedom for other projects, side platforms are NOT attached to the main walkway. The MDC 2 Bay also has a U.S. Gypsum expanded metal walkway available like those used by the UP.

    Part# Description Price
    089 PS2 2 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - MDC $3.50
    090 PS2 2 Bay Covered Hopper UP Walkway - Gypsum pattern - MDC $3.50
    092 PS2 3 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - ConCor $4.50
    089-3 PS2 2 Bay Walkways (#089) - Three per package $8.00




    2 Bay Cement

     This kit consists of walkways only and utilizes the risers already molded on theWm. K. Walthers car.


    Part# Description Price
    086 2 Bay Covered Cement Hopper WW-Morton pattern-Walthers $5.75




    3 Bay

     The Athearn 54 ft PS, Walthers PS2CD and Proto2000s 4427 covered hopper walkways include brass risers and coupler/brake platforms. Notice that kits 087 and 088 fit either Walthers or Proto 2000s Car. If you are going to be adding more than one or two of our walkway kits to the 4427 cars, one of the stainless drill templates will greatly aid you in this.


    Part# Description Price
    084 54 ft. PS 3 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - Athearn NLA
    085 54 ft. PS 3 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - Athearn $8.50
    087 PS2CD 3 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - WKW & P2K $8.50
    088 PSCD 3 Bay Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - WKW & P2K $8.50
    Drill Template
    10889 Stainless Steel Drill Template for 4427 PS2CD Covered Hopper $8.75




    4750 Cu. Ft.

     Two InterMountain PS 4750 Cu. Ft. covered hopper walkway kits are available in the Morton pattern.
  • #083 is an "original" type kit with a walkway like that of the one in the InterMountain kit.
  • #082 is a one piece walkway that represents the walkway applied by Trinity Ind.
    Kit 082 also contains new bolster side plates allowing the larger bolsters sometimes used on this prototype.

  • Two other kits for this car are based on Santa Fe Prototypes.

    Brass walkway supports and stainless steel coupler platforms are also part of kits.


    Part# Description Price
    082 Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - Trinity $9.00
    083 PS 4750 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - InterMountain $9.00
    10831 PS 4750 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - InterMountain $9.00
    10832 PS 4750 Cu. Ft. Covered Hopper Walkway - Gypsum pattern - InterMountain $9.00




    Airslide Covered Hoppers

     Kits for Walthers single and 2 bay Airslide hoppers have slotted walkways featuring the separate side platforms. You will also find a Morton pattern walkway listed for the 50 ft. 2 bay car.


    Part# Description Price
    095 Airslide Walkway - Single Bay Apex pattern - Walthers $3.75
    098 50 ft. Airslide Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - Walthers $4.50
    099 50 ft. Airslide Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - Walthers $4.50




    FMC

     One piece walkway kits for the MDC FMC covered hopper include brass risers and coupler platforms, just like our PS covered hopper kits.


    Part# Description Price
    080 FMC Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - MDC car $9.25
    081 FMC Covered Hopper Walkway - Apex pattern - MDC car $9.25




    Trinity PD 5000 Car

     This kit is a walkway and brake platforms only kit. Thanks to the people at Walthers, the risers are molded on the car, making this a "drop on" walkway! If you enjoy adding brass risers, our #119 ACF risers are an exact fit.


    Part# Description Price
    114 PD 5000 Covered Hopper Walkway - Morton pattern - Walthers car $7.25


    Standard Cars Plastic Pellet Car

     The plastic pellet car produced by Wm. K. Walthers is an easy car to replace the walkway. A quick pop off of the plastic walkway, smooth the walkway supports and glue the new walkway in place. The included coupler platforms mount in the same holes as the plastic platforms, so again a quick interchange.


    Part# Description Price
    115 Standard cars Plastic Pellet Car walkway - Morton pattern - Wm. K. Walthers car $8.25


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