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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3291

LNE-401 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 68	Straying from the subject, back to the 4 bay offset hoppers. I am pretty sure around 1950-51 the Lackawanna received over 300 of the B&M cars.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3292

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Still straying off the subject, the AT&SF also had such cars, but the two center bays faced the ends bays rather than the middle of the car. Both the AT&SF and the MoP converted fair numbers of said cars into covered hopper cars. AT&SF for grain and later sand loading, the MoP for lime service. Does anybody have a photo of the Erie version? That car at least would be a pausable visitor to the Reading operations.

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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3293

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	Erie did not have any Lackawanna had them. I believe there is a photo of a Lackawanna 4 bay in one of the "Train Shed Cyclopedia's" I will look it up when I get home from work today.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3294

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Erie had the 4-bay ARA 70 ton car-if you look at Pennypacker's Rdg Power Pictorial, there's a shot of one around 1955, just ahead of a caboose and pusher...here's a link to an article about the prototype..
www.trainlife.com/articles/580/ara-70-ton-hopper-cars
B&O, Erie, Milw and MP were original owners, along with C&O and B&M later, second hand to NH, KOG etc. And if the Athearn one isn't good enough, Broadway Limited has a 4-pack in these roads for $149 a pop!

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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3296

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	Mitch , I could not find the photo that you described, but on page 182 it shows one as the second car behind T-1 2103, Erie # 39492. On page 177 there is a car just ahead the caboose with 2119 as a pusher, but this car is a PRR ribbed 4 bay.
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HTz 40001 - 40400 Hoppers 9 years 9 months ago #3304

LNE-401 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 68	Mitch, I think this was the Erie photo you mentioned. They rostered 794 back in 1953. Secondly is the MP, which were covered hoppers, Sunshine made a mini-kit years back for this I sold mine like a dummy. Attachments: 184.jpg (43KB) MP19314Bay...vice.jpg (24KB)
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