The Franklin & South Manchester Traveling Hopper Car

[Zephyrus52246]

I agree with Jan and Tom.  More pictures, Seth!  Welcome to the forum.


Jeff

[GPdemayo]

Hi Seth.....welcome to the group. Great photo of the hopper.....love the Caddy with the fins! 


Don't be shy about posting your work.....we all love pictures. 

[postalkarl]

Hi Art:

Nice photos of the FSM hopper. Lots of great structures to.

Thanks:
Karl

[postalkarl]

Hi Seth:

Welcome aboard. Very nice photo. How about a few more please. Appears you have a very nice layoot.

Karl

Karl.

[S&S RR]

Seth


Welcome to the forum - Thanks for being part of the traveling hopper and for sharing your layout with us.  Looks great! Oh and if you couldn't tell from the previous posts we love pictures.

[pbltrains]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all your kind comments and welcome to the group.  I do consider myself a fine scale modeler (as Art V. will attest).  My layout is a freelance railroad and I really enjoy building kits and scratchbuilding too.

Here are a few more of the traveling hopper while it visited my layout.

Seth Puffer
Puffer Bridge Lines

[S&S RR]

I know we lost some pictures of layouts from Minnesota when our server crashed.  Mike, Seth, Art, can you take a look and see if we can restore the pictures. I remember commenting on the pictures from some layouts that will be part of the  upcoming layout tours for the 2018 Narrow Gauge Convention.  Also, I'm looking forward to seeing the Hopper Car at the 2016 Narrow Gauge Convention in Maine.

[jbvb]

I'll be at the NNGC, and also opening my layout for visitors on Wednesday and Sunday.  Where will the F&SM hopper be?

[postalkarl]

Hi PBL;

Looks great on your layout.

Karl

[artvdw]

Here's a repost of the FSM Hopper sitting on Gary Hanson's layout.  This posted a week ago, but got lost when the server went down.

In 2018, The Twin Cities will host the National Narrow Gauge Convention September 5 - 8, and the last three layouts - Art VanDeWater's, Seth Puffer's, and Gary Hanson's will be on the home layout tour.


Art VanDeWater
River Falls, Wisconsin

[S&S RR]

Thanks for reposting the picture Art.  I'm looking forward to visiting these layouts for the 2018 Narrow Gauge Convention.

[S&S RR]

F&SM Hopper Car Update: I just got a report from Mike Engler that he is in the middle of sorting out a hard drive crash on his computer.  He said the Hopper traveled with him to the Narrow Gauge convention but he is not sure if he has any pictures, I assume due to the computer crash.  Mike will be boxing the hopper up for it's long journey to Australia. 

[S&S RR]

The current list - The Hopper is scheduled to visit Hawkeye country upon it's return from Australia.  Please let me know if you would like to be added to this list by posting to this thread or sending me a PM.




The list: (Names in Red are the Railroads that the car has already visited).


1. George Sellios on the Franklin & South Manchester
2. Jimmy Deignan's - Pennsy
3. Dick Ewell's - Hoosac Valley
4. John Siekirk's  - Superior & Seattle
5. Tom Langford's -  Atlantic & Southern
6. Greg DeMayo's - St. Louis and Denver RR
7. Bill and Kris Cutler's - The Pennsy, Six miles west of Altoona
8. Frank Baker's - Morristown & Erie Railroad - Western Division
9. Karl Scholz - A special build.
10. Bob Parish's - Boise Nampa & Owyhee
11. Jim Mueller - New Haven
12. Art VanDeWater's - Winona & Southwestern RY Co.
13. Mike Engler - Minnesota
Attending the Narrow Gauge Convention
14. David Gallaway - The land down under.
15.  Dr. Jeff - Hawkeye Country





I will keep up the list of stops for the F&SM Hopper Car on this thread.  If you would like to host the car on your layout - post your request on this thread and send me a PM Message with your mailing address.

June 8th update - added color code and changed some spelling errors.
June 23rd update - added new names and visits along the way
June 24th update - fixed more spelling errors and added more names.
July 2nd - more names and updated the hopper has been.
August 1st. - more names and updated order.
September 14th - updated status

Please let me know if I missed anyone or misspelled anything.



Make sure you post here if you want to have your name added to the list.  Also, please review the list and make sure I didn't miss a post and forget someone.

[ACL1504]

I look forward to seeing the F&SM hopper on Bagman's layout.

Tom

[bagman]

I look forward to seeing the F&SM hopper on Bagman's layout.

Tom

That's extremely generous of you to say that Tom but don't get folks expectations built up.

There's a whole lot of layouts out there way better than mine, starting with the layout that the hopper car originated from !

Once I return from my vacation in Greece at the end of September, I'll send out a shipping request.

Again, kind words and thank you.

David