Anyone have a picture showing an LGB center-flow hopper next to a USA version? I have a few LGB cars and I’d like to add a few different paint schemes (GN). I’d like to know how they match before I buy some.
Thanks!
Ask Dad…he’s got them both
Sorry, My bad…My Birthday 
LGB bottom USA middle and AML top. Nick
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Thanks.
Looks like the USA is a little longer and a tad shorter. Not too bad though.
Pullman Standard vs American Railcar vs Trinity… that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 
They come through town all time.
Unless it is a unit train, they’re different.
Length, height, etc.
Sometimes in the harvest, they have different size cars in a unit train. It all depends.
Hopper cars are like box cars, They come in all different sizes…
Yep, I know…I just cannot run MTH box cars with Aristo, the difference is too much for me. The USA/LGB combo would look fine.
I have very little USA rolling stock, nothing to compare. Got a couple USA hoppers on the way!
Mark V do you count rivets too? Paul
Far from it, but I don’t ignore them either.
Nice answer Mark!
I am reminded of a past “controversy” in the R/C world where scale fidelity has been known to reach religious fervor. There was a model of a WWI fighter that every contest judge gave a perfect score. One judge, an editor of a scale magazine if I recall correctly, refused to believe in perfection. His chance came to judge the plane and true to his word, he docked it 5 pts. Seems the original had a rotary engine, and even though the modeler replicated it in perfect detail the engine behind the fake rotary was a “typical” 4-stroke with a crank. The “judge” determined the builder did not align his prop to the correct angle to the cylinder for static judging and therefore docked him.
I swore then, I would never be a rivet counter. I love my “scale” railroad, and my Lionel just the same.
I have a sack of rivets to hand to people like that to keep them busy.
Steve Featherkile said:I have a big (Sack of them)as well...........:)
I have a sack of rivets to hand to people like that to keep them busy.
Rivet counters tend to shy away from 1:29 scale, probably why I gravitated to it !!
Steve Featherkile said:Here I thought we were friends? I need occupied ya' know!
I have a sack of rivets to hand to people like that to keep them busy.
Steve Featherkile said:Yeah, sure you do! Are at least those rivets to a precise scale?
I have a sack of rivets to hand to people like that to keep them busy.
John Bouck said:''
They come through town all time. Unless it is a unit train, they're different. Length, height, etc.
Lots of grain unit trains on the CP, what really sets them apart is the graffiti. No time to figure out which cars is what if you can check out all the graffiti. 
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:I wonder if the graffiti artists ever paint long murals on unit trains. They would probably stay together as a group for a pretty long time. I'll have to pay attention more in teh videos :)
Lots of grain unit trains on the CP, what really sets them apart is the graffiti. No time to figure out which cars is what if you can check out all the graffiti. ;) :)