Rock Island 4Bay Airslide Hopper #8909

Rock Island 4Bay Airslide Hopper #8909

Rock Island 4Bay Airslide Hopper #8909

Chicken Neck Foundry presents a airslide hopper. Looking more like a boxcar than a hopper, airslides where first introduced in 1954 by General American Transporation Corporation. They feature a finely perforated interior fabric lining. The powdered or granulated load of usually flour or sugar is effectively liquified as it is forced out of the car under high air pressure via hose connections. It is also used to carry grains and other fine products. This later 48 ft model hopper's top hatches open and close with load and unload sounds and additional dust clouds at facilities like woodchips and LARS interactive industries. While usually dust free, this car also bellows clouds of it from under the bays as the hopper unloads. Thanks to Pencil42, Fitz505 and PhilC (his handles and couplers), whose assistance on prior type hoppers and cars made this one possible. Car has brake cylinder and reservoir, and couplers too. Created from the rails up with gmax Trainz Asset Creation Studio. Loads LARS and Auran products: barley, cement, corn, flour, grain hp, lose gravel, hops, limestone aggregate, malt, oats, peas, plaster, granular plastic, quartz sand, rice, sand, sand and gravel, soda ash, soya beans, sugar, taconite pellets, wheat, or woodchips. Note: Some are not appropriate for this type car. Employees realsquash roller bearing trucks.

Reskinned with permission of majekear.

Author: Fourteen

Rock Island 4Bay Airslide Hopper #8909
4bay airslide hopper_body
4bay airslide hopper_body.im 740.81KB
airslidebody.texture.txt 35 bytes
airslidebody.tga 3.00MB
env_metal.bmp 12.05KB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
icehatch
hatch.im 20.17KB
hatch.kin 26.07KB
hatch.texture.txt 28 bytes
hatch.tga 12.04KB
4bay airslide hopper_shadow
4bay airslide hopper_shadow.im 10.45KB
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 812 bytes
• coal_dump1.wav 129.38KB
• coal_load1.wav 107.37KB
• config.txt 16.78KB
• consist_icon.tga 32.02KB
• coupling_1.wav 40.71KB
• hopper.gs 1.29KB
• thumbnail.jpg 17.65KB