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Tom
I weathered the first hopper with some oil paints around the roof and the tops of the sides to denote some light rust starting to appear where snow would collect. I picked up another Atlas car last week off eBay and got it out and set it next to the one with the Plano roof walk. As you can tell from the photos Atlas changed the color of these cars to a bluer gray as the two grays are different. The second one probably matches the Tru-Color Mopac covered hopper gray better but I wont know until I replace the roof walk on it too. When Ed Hawkins was helping out one of the manufacturers years ago with a 1950s MP covered hopper gray he came up with several different drift cards of gray in the AC&F specifications packet so it’s not out of the realm of possibilities these cars too had different shades of gray as they were built.
I wasn’t familiar with this model until just recently, did Atlas do a couple different runs?
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