Who makes them/sells them? Isn't it funny how the items that we try to always avoid in our railfanning photography are the ones that we want to model and make a layout come alive? Specifically, the trash collection areas along the Tehachapi grade (at Caliente and Woodford) . . . I'm going to put one on my layout, and need some dumpsters! Now, if only I had photographed one of them. . . . instead of just all those trains and scenery. . .
Also try Ebay under n-scale stores, Paulas Hobbies, makes different size industrial dumpsters, also arrowheadscalemodels.com if there still around
I use bashed-up old hoppers. Probably not prototypical, but they do hold a lot of stuff, and are a salute to the older days in the hobby. And I've seen them, sans trucks, sides buldging out, ends flattened, rusting, at very remote locations. Perhaps it derailed, and was left here to collect trash?
I once saw an abandoned boxcar about 100' down a hillside from an Amtrak train coming down the cuesta pass north of SLO, Ca. Some farmer had somehow placed it on a rolling ridge between the hillside the train was on and the opposite hillside, where Highway 101 runs. It was quite a sight, along with the old tank trucks and other saved junk sitting there. I don't know if it's still there . . . this was about 15 years ago.
The kind that I'm looking for are the standard dumpsters you see at apartment complexes, etc - with the doors on top and the slots on the sides so the trash truck can pick them up and flip them over the cab. . . I can't find those anywhere. Father Nature's aren't the right type, and I couldn't find DI's anywhere. ??
Dave, Cal Freight makes a few versions. Walthers link below- http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=&scale=N&manu=cal+freight&item=&keywords=dumpster&instock=Q&split=30&Submit=Search
