Covered Hopper Car
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Covered Hopper Car
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Speedball VS. Woodsball - How To Play Paintball
There are basically two ways to play paintball. One is Speedball and the other is Woodsball; these are two special variants of paintball. Both have different games, different ways to play (and different competitions), different paintball guns and different gear. One thing's for sure though, whether you're playing speedball or woodsball, the adrenalin level is the same – through the roof!
You can play speedball or woodsball at commercial fields, paintball parks or just in the woods behind your house (or some property someone let you use). Speedball is mostly played on a field with blow-up inflatable bunkers to hide behind. Woodsball is mostly played outside (in the woods) or in mock urban settings. Some commercial paintball parks have elaborate courses to play both speedball and woodsball including castles, middle eastern towns, western themes and old junk cars to hide behind.
Watch out! Some paintball parks can be costly… entry fees, paintballs and air refills can sometimes make a day at the paintball field something you can only afford ‘once in a while'. Then there's the naturalists, the paintballers who think paintball should be played in the wild. They prefer to hide behind rocks, trees, hills and tough terrain as bunkers .
Woodsball (also known as scenario or tactical paintball) is the real deal. Most of these players like to dress in camos and make a statement with their gear…. super realistic military replica paintball guns, paintball grenades, landmines and anything else to make it seem more like live combat. Games are generally military style ‘missions' ranging from ‘Capture the Flag' to simply hunting your opponents in the woods. An extensive list of different tactical missions and paintball game variations (speedball or woodsball) can be found on the 'Game Variation' blog in the Forum section of ChoicePaintballGuns.com. Here are just a couple variations:
- Elimination – As sweet and simple as it sounds. Kill everybody. By yourself or with a team. Only the strong survive.
- Capture the Flag – If you're looking for some tactics, try CTF. Use flag stations and collect more flags, or have just one flag for each team and claim it for victory.
- Assault! Get yourselves into two teams. Let one team protect their territory and let the other charge. The attackers should try to eliminate their opponents or take hold of their territory.
Popular woodsball equipment are military replica paintball guns; good brands are Tippmann, MilSig and T68. These guns come in all different shapes and sizes including AK47's, M4 Carbines, Sub-machine Guns and sniper rifles. Interestingly, these guns are all made so they can use parts/attachments for real guns. It's true; you can put the same rails, sniper scopes, sights, handguards and buttstocks on your tactical paintball marker that you would on a real military rifle. This of course gives you many options for how you want your gun to look and operate. It also allows your military ‘mission' to seem more realistic and helps add more dimensions to your game.
Many times, the different attachments or look of your paintball gun will help define who you are on the field and what type of position you play. For example, if you have a sniper paintball gun, your position on the field may be some place high up or at a vantage point where you can see the entire field; the sniper also generally doesn't move much and plants himself to wait for a precision shot or may provide cover fire so the other players can position better. The player with a fully automatic M16 paintball gun is more on the front line, making tactical maneuvers, flank the enemy or capture the flag.
It also greatly enhances your scenario game to dress and look the part. Many woodsballers wear BDU's/camo clothing, military helmets, face paint and even ghillie suits if sniping is your game. Tactical vests have been modified to carry paintball equipment and there are many different options to choose from here. These come in all different camo patterns and are designed to carry paintballs, CO2 cartridges, radio's, canteens and even holsters for your paintball pistol.
Speedball is a form of paintball that was created mostly for professional competitive paintballers and provides a standard field and better viewing possibilities. If you thought that paintball is just for some weekend fun, professional speedballers would probably disagree – there are many who make a good living doing nothing but playing speedball professionally. Speedball has turned into a real competitive sport, with teams, coaches, uniforms, merchandizing, sponsorships and the whole shebang.
In speedball, there are generally 3 or 5 man teams that play in 5, 10 or 15 minute timed matches. This game is fast and is usually some variation of elimination (eliminate all the players of the opposing team in the shortest period of time). Successful speedball teams use rapid, constant movement, communication and strategy to get the job done. Speedballers use different looking paintball guns than woodsballers. Their guns are faster, lighter and look like hi-tech laser guns.
Good brand names to look for in a speedball gun are Spyder, Planet Eclipse (Ego), Proto/Matrix (PM9), Dangerous Power and Angel. These guns come standard with 8-12" barrels (but not longer than this) and usually electronic triggers. An electronic trigger is one that offers several different modes…. burst, semi-automatic and full auto. Another common accessory with speedball guns is an electronic hopper. A hopper is a container that sits on top of the paintball gun that carries and loads the paintballs into the gun. Electronic hoppers have tiny motors in them that feed the paintballs very rapidly into the paintball gun; these allow you to shoot much faster.
Uniforms for playing speedball are mostly paintball jerseys, but you can also find matching pants if you want. Most paintball jerseys (and pants combos) have some padding built into them for extra protection. An important part of any paintball uniform (whether you're playing speedball or woodsball) is the protective paintball mask. Paintball is a totally safe sport…. as long as you're wearing protective eye wear.
Regardless is you're into starting your own team or playing on your own; if you play at commercial fields or just with a bunch of friends on your neighbor's property, paintball is a safe and totally fun, addictive sport. Start off with a cheap/low end, beginner paintball marker (a Spyder Victor is a great place to start) and try your hand at speedball and woodsball to see which one you like better. Once you've decided your style of play, then you can upgrade/get more specific gear to enhance your game.
About the Author
Dan Levesque is the owner and operator of a successful online paintball retail store, ChoicePaintballGuns.com. He also owns and operates several other successful businesses and is the treating doctor at a full time chiropractic clinic. He is also a professional powerlifter and trains several top level strength athletes.
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Covered Hopper $125.85 A Covered Hopper is a railroad freight car. They are designed for carrying dry bulk loads, varying from grain to products such as sand and clay. The cover protects the loads from the weather dried cement would be very hard to unload if mixed with water in transit, while grain would be liable to rot if exposed to rain. However, they are unsuitable for perishables such as fruit or meat these are transported in Refrigerator car, where they can be kept at low temperatures as well. Similar to an open hopper car, Covered Hoppers tend to contain 2, 3 or 4 separated bays. Each of these can be loaded and emptied individually, with access at the top to load the materials and visible chutes at the bottom for unloading. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2010/04/23 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.47 inches |
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Bachmann BAC73897 N Ps2 Covered Hopper Wabash $20.23 Freight car is Gray with Wabash painted in Blue on each side. Cannonball Freight Service is painted small in Blue on each side. Compatible with all N scale equipment. Detailed panel lines give a realistic look. Detailed chassis. Couplers on each end of car. Wabash's logo appears on both sides of car. Ladders are located on each end of car. Metal wheels attached to Black trucks. Packaged in a hard plastic clear case. Scale: N 1/160. Length: 4-1/2" (11.4cm). Width: 3/4" (1.9cm). Height: 1" (2.5cm). |
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Atlas Model ATM20000898 Ho Trmn Cov Hopper Peavey 2041 $22.83 This covered hopper model is based on a late 1970s 263,000 lbs GRL (Gross Rail Loading) 4750 cubic-foot capacity designed by Thrall Car primarily for grain transport. Weighted body. Equipped with AccuMate Knuckle Couplers. Trucks equipped with free-rolling metal wheels. Accurate painting and lettering. |
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Atlas Model ATM20000900 Ho Trmn Cov Hopper Peavey 2124 $23.11 This covered hopper model is based on a late 1970s 263,000 lbs GRL (Gross Rail Loading) 4750 cubic-foot capacity designed by Thrall Car primarily for grain transport. Weighted body. Equipped with AccuMate Knuckle Couplers. Trucks equipped with free-rolling metal wheels. Accurate painting and lettering. |
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Car Covered with Snow $24.99 Car Covered with Snow - Photographic Print |
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Atlas Model ATM11296 Ho Trmn Ps2 Cov Hopper New Haven $21.92 Covered hoppers are a relatively new car family. The AAR considered these "special" cars until the 1980's when they finally got their own car type code category. These early covered hopper designs were built primarily for more efficient cement loading and unloading (previously cement was bagged and placed in box cars). This two-bay covered hopper car design was built by Pullman-Standard starting in the late 1940s with production continuing into the 1950s. This car features eight round roof hatches for quick loading. Two large gravity gates were used to discharge the commodity as quickly as possible. Capacity is rated at 2,003 cubic foot. 50-ton friction bearing or 70-ton roller bearing trucks (as appropriate by road name). Detailed brake gear. Accumate couplers. Prototypical painting and printing. |
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Atlas Model ATM11289 Ho Trmn Ps2 Cov Hopper Clinchfield $21.92 Covered hoppers are a relatively new car family. The AAR considered these "special" cars until the 1980's when they finally got their own car type code category. These early covered hopper designs were built primarily for more efficient cement loading and unloading (previously cement was bagged and placed in box cars). This two-bay covered hopper car design was built by Pullman-Standard starting in the late 1940s with production continuing into the 1950s. This car features eight round roof hatches for quick loading. Two large gravity gates were used to discharge the commodity as quickly as possible. Capacity is rated at 2,003 cubic foot. 50-ton friction bearing or 70-ton roller bearing trucks (as appropriate by road name). Detailed brake gear. Accumate couplers. Prototypical painting and printing. |
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Rose Covered Car, Portland, Oregon $39.99 Rose Covered Car, Portland, Oregon - Giclee Print |
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A Red Car Covered with Autumn Leaves $24.99 A Red Car Covered with Autumn Leaves - Photographic Print |
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Car Covered and Parked, California, USA $129.99 Panoramic Images Car Covered and Parked, California, USA - Wall Decal |
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Lionel LIO17129 9300 Wm 3-Bay Hopper with Coal $57.39 Here is a Lionel 17129 Western Maryland 3-Bay Hopper Car w/ Coal Load. This scale sized hopper features die cast trucks operating couplers and a simulated coal load. |
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Lionel LIO17129 9300 Wm 3Bay Hopper with Coal $71.06 Here is a Lionel 17129 Western Maryland 3Bay Hopper Car w/ Coal Load. This scale sized hopper features die cast trucks operating couplers and a simulated coal load. |
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Moody Sunlight Showing Hopper Car of the Reading Railroad Idle on Rusting Elevated Span $79.99 Walker Evans Moody Sunlight Showing Hopper Car of the Reading Railroad Idle on Rusting Elevated Span - Premium Photographic Print |
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Man Opening Snow Covered Car Hood $24.99 George Marks Man Opening Snow Covered Car Hood - Photographic Print |
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Hip Hopper $10 Hip Hopper |
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Moody Sunlight Showing Arty Grouping of Hopper Car, Rusting Elevated Span, Trucks, Etc $79.99 Walker Evans Moody Sunlight Showing Arty Grouping of Hopper Car, Rusting Elevated Span, Trucks, Etc - Premium Photographic Print |
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S P Whistle Stop 98514 Wood Ore Hopper Car Pennsylvania Railroad $75.11 This is a G Scale Wooden Ore Hopper Car (Pennsylvania #417) from the Big Hauler Series by Bachmann. Compatible with any G scale model railroad equipment. This is a dark brick red open top hopper car. Authentic molding resembles actual wood. Pennsylvania and road number PRR 417 in white on each side. Realistically molded ladders steps grab irons brake wheel and hopper doors. Very detailed underframe. Freerolling metal wheels. Includes: One G Scale Wooden Ore Hopper Car (Pennsylvania Railroad). Scale: G (1:22.5). Length: 111/2 (299mm). Width: 4 (104mm). Height: 4 (104mm). |
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age (Paperback) $23.83 A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming. Throughout Hopper`s later years, the popular media told this simplified version of her life story. In Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, Kurt Beyer reveals a more authentic Hopper, a vibrant and complex woman whose career paralleled the meteoric trajectory of the postwar computer industry. Both rebellious and collaborative, Hopper was influential in male-dominated military and business organizations at a time when women were encouraged to devote themselves to housework and childbearing. Hopper`s greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers. |
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Covered $13.79 Covered |
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Car Trapped in a Snow Covered Landscape, Montana, USA $129.99 Panoramic Images Car Trapped in a Snow Covered Landscape, Montana, USA - Wall Decal |
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2CV Car Painted Crazy Cow, Covered in Snow $24.99 Dominic Harcourt-webster 2CV Car Painted Crazy Cow, Covered in Snow - Photographic Print |
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Edward Hopper $19.99 Edward Hopper Edward Hopper - Giclee Print |
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Bachmann Williams BAC17642 Ho 40 ft. Quad Hopper Norfolk and Western $28.93 This is a Premium HO Scale Silver Series 40 Norfolk and Western Quad Hopper Car from Bachmann. It s for experienced train collectors. A onepiece removable textured black plastic cover on top simulates the quad hopper being fully loaded with coal. Raised panel lines on the black exterior. Blackened machinedmetal wheels with RP25 contours. Body mounted couplers. Nonmagnetic blackenedbrass axles with needlepoint bearings. Added weight for optimum tracking. Celcon trucks. Detailed underframe. Includes: One Premium HO 40 Norfolk and Western Quad Hopper Car. Scale: HO 1/87. Quad Hopper size . Length: 53/4 (14.5cm). Width: 11/4 (3.3cm). Height: 11/2 (4cm). |
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Dennis Hopper $7.99 Dennis Hopper - Photo |