--- In STMFC@..., "Patrick Wider" <pwider@s...> wrote:

They were very distinctive hopper cars: 55' long over coupler

pulling faces, prominent

external truss framing like a helium car, 6 unloading outlets,

small round loading

hatches....... See Train Shed Cyc #85, p. 162 or a 1953 CBC.

Pat Wider


--- In STMFC@..., timboconnor@c... wrote:

Pat can you describe the cars?

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Patrick Wider" <pwider@s...>

I'm currently preparing an article on the General American

Trans-Flo (flour) covered

hopper cars that were in the GACX 41000-41099 series (circa

1950s). These cars

were

predecessors to GATC's Airslide cars. Does anyone know of scale

models (kit or brass)

that

may have been produced of these cars??? Thanks.
Pat Wider

Pat my friend, I'm very familiar with the cars as I used
to see them all the time in the mid 1950's on the BRC here in
Chicago carrying flour to the Nabisco Bakery next to PM's
Rockwell Yard on the South side.
I have never know of any kit to duplcate the cars in model
form, but I seem to remember an artical in MR about a million
years ago to scratch build one as part of the "Dollor Car"
series? Maybe someone can dig you up the info about the back
issue. If you would like to talk, e-mail me off list with your
number.

Regards,

Jerry Stewart
Chicago, Ill.