3-D printed GLa hopper car

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3-D printed GLa hopper car

I model the Western Maryland Ry. (WM) from the 1920s to before the start of World War II. Appropriate commercial models of coal hoppers for my modeling era are limited in large scale. I was using LGB two-bay and Bachmann three-bay hoppers as stand-ins, but I wanted accurate, period-specific coal hoppers for my rolling stock fleet.  I turned to 3-D printing to create models that aren’t available commercially. Over the last few months I created fi…