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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3284

rdg-barry OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 378 Thank you received: 44	here you go....
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3285

MrBill OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 169 Thank you received: 31	Yeah, that's a foobie. The only Rdg 4 bays were the rib sided HTl/n's The HTv's were 2 bay offsets. Nice lettering though. The only road I know that had 4 bay offsets was the B&O.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3286

JoannaBill OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 422 Thank you received: 63	To build on Mr. Bill's comments, Reading's HTv class were offset side twin hoppers, a rather large series that ran from 82000 through 89000.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3287

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	there's a photo of an HTv hopper on the rolling stock reference page.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3288

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the offset 4 bay hoppers were a development of the 20's-B&O, C&O and the Erie had them-Pennypacker's book has a pic of one on a train at Locust Summit in the 50's. B&M had them for stone service and some were sold second hand to the New Haven as well. MP had some and were sold to the KO&G, a connecting carrier, in the late 50's. AHM had them in the billboard KOG scheme for years and they are the only prototypical scheme offered except for Athearn's B&O scheme. The B&M never painted them blue even though they had them...

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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3290

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Thanks for the extra background info Mitch. I've always wondered who all actually had those quads. It seems like The model mfrs have been stamping every name in the book on them forever. A couple of the nicer ones I've acquired which are probably foobs as well are for the EJ&E and CB&Q. Do you know if they might possibly be correct? Also, I saw a model of a B&M in black with white lettering, which I think is correct? Looks more plausible than the blue ones anyway.
Getting back to the topic at hand, a N&W H-11:

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