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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 11 months ago #4442

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	Here is a one car covered hopper it kept its class HTc and number 63924. A photo of it is in Craig Bossler's book. This is an Athearn car with a scratch built roof.
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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 11 months ago #4444

Mitch from Maine OFFLINE Engineer Posts: 136 Thank you received: 17	here's a "down-on" view from 1981 or so at the ex-PC Pavonia yard in Camden NJ. All 15 of the class were assigned to sand service on the PRSL (which Rdg had one-third ownership of) for the sand pits near Millville and Bridgeton NJ.
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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 11 months ago #4449

2771-chris OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 634 Thank you received: 94	Rob,T1...great looking models.Thanks for the pictures.
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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 11 months ago #4455

rdg1187prr OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 38	Here's a link to a photo of my version of the LOp hopper. Roof is built out of sheet styrene. Custom decals for the yellow panel. www.readingmodeler.com/index.php/photos/...ing-models/jc-6-299# John Caples
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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 10 months ago #4567

RDGbuff56 OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 44 Thank you received: 4	There is an article by Bob Losse in the September 1997 Model Railroader about building RDG early covered hoppers. He says that the roofs from LOa were reused on LOp cars. He gives dimensions. Francis A. Pehowic, Jr. Sunbury, Pa.
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LOp Covered Hoppers 8 years 10 months ago #4569

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	the roofs on the LOp cars came from LOh class #79134-79169 covered hoppers which were converted from HTr 2 bay ribbed hoppers. if you go to the rolling stock reference file on this site. and go to the covered hopper page.click on LOh and it states AFE#24611 16 LOh cars retired, and roofs placed on HTx cars for Millville sand service, new class LOp 79170-79185, December 1967.
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