Elden, the HM and HT are open hoppers. The GS & GBS are gons. The LO is one of the MSTL covered hoppers used for company sand. They only had 10 of these cars. Also note that Clark has typed an

Charlie, The X31B/C would need a new mold. Much easier to get X31s out of the current mold with floor tubes and end fixtures (maybe an etched brass part?). The single door flush roof cars such as N&W

General Sand coming out of an open pit was exposed to the weather. So an open car, gon or hopper was the norm. Only specialty sands that were in bags or barrels would warrant a boxcar. Doug

Tim, In addition to my clinic? ;) Yes, the RP Cyc did articles on the PRR cars, the cars PRR sold and the non-PRR clones or near clones. Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn Al

Is there documentation for the "inset" vs "flush" roof feature on the X31/X32 cars ? All of the NP cars I've seen had the "flush" roofs. On 6/16/2020 3:41 PM,

190000-191749 were twin hoppers in classes HT-1 to HT-4, built between 1926 and 1929 with an outside length of 35’ 1”. 190672 was an HT-2, built at Galesburg in 1927-8. 192000-193199 covered

All- Since Rapido is still in the early design phases they could add the X31b and gain a couple more road names and additional paint schemes. Perhaps the PRR people can chime in on any more

The run by of the freight with C&IM gondolas looks like the Santa Fe in Illinois - where I'd expect to see those cars. On 6/12/2020 4:22 PM, vapeurchapelon wrote:

The CNJ regularly hauled sand out of the Vineland, NJ and Millville, NJ areas in 52' gondolas. The sand was just piled in the car - CNJ employees would joke that SJ-2 looked like a rolling sandstorm.

Reasonably inexpensive TUNGSTEN "grit" is available online - I bought some on Amazon. This is poured into center sills or under the floor and it's denser than lead, not

Will Rapido paint them for Northern Pacific as ex-DT&I X31b? Different roof... too bad :-( Tim O'Connor On 6/12/2020 3:42

Schuyler, There is a town about 20 miles from me that used to have two cement plants - Superior Cement and Washington Portland Cement and the town is called "Concrete". Actually it's a little more

The HM cars are hoppers. Nelson Moyer

Clark, I looked up my Q hopper roster to get the car classes, and I don’t find series 190000-191749 listed as such. I found 19000-19499 (HT-1) and 190500-190999 (HT-2). The next class I have is

I worked for Corning Incorporated (formerly Corning Glass Works) for a while. Corning has made a wide variety of products from telescope lenses to kitchen ware to optical fiber to catalytic converter

The IC car is a 55 ton open hopper. Built in 1949 by Pullman Standard. From the car diagram it looks like the Alternate Standard Offset Hopper that the IC had thousands of. Jeff White

Very interesting, Clark. Are you saying these were all gons? Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Bob Chaparro wrote: Clearly a post-Prohibition photo, so we know the earliest it can be dated! Tony Thompson tony@...

Photo: PFE/WP Reefer With Load Of Wines & Cordials An undated photo (Reweigh date 2-1932) from the Louisiana Digital

All; Reason I ask is, I am aware of several customers that wanted specific cars (classes) for their use, and got their way. And this is related to why they did not want sand in box cars or gons.