Re: USRA Standard 100-ton Gondola Car Design
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Bob,
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All three, the C&O/N&W/VGN, had rotary dumpers at Tidewater. It "appears" that the N&W/VGN had heavier tracks sooner than the C&O did and we don't know about the conditions of their branchline trackage. The C&O only purchased 1000 and then quickly retrenched back to 70-ton USRA clam-shell ctr and then ARA Offset-side Quad hops for use at either Toledo or Newport News. In between they had to put all new trucks on those 91-ton gons in 1925. The hopper cars would work in either the rotary dumpers or in the older NN high-pier direct dump into bunkers piers. Other railroads had rotary dumpers. Railway companies tended to be very conservative and set in their ways . . . and liked to keep it simple. Many of those B&O Quad Hops would eventually be reblt at the C&Os Raceland Car Shops in the late-60s. Al Kresse
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From: "rwitt_2000" <rwitt_2000@...> Al Kresse asked: designs? Al, From what research I have completed on B&O coal cars, it appears different railroads had different needs for the type of coal cars they placed on their rosters. The B&O definitely settled upon the 50-ton twin hopper as their "standard" coal cars. I don't have the memos to document this, but this is implied from types of cars listed in their rosters. For what ever reasons the B&O had no interest in large capacity gondolas. In fact, they had no interest in the USRA 50-ton twin hopper. Although they received several thousands during the USRA era, they immediately began building more of their class N-12 hopper at the termination of USRA control even though the original design dated from ~1912. Large capacity cars for the B&O were the 70-ton ARA quad hoppers received in the late 1920's. Regards, Bob Witt
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