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B&O N25B covered hoppers
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D. Scott Chatfield
Can anyone point me to a picture of the B-end of one of these? Kitbashing one for a friend. And those outlets are very odd. Scott Chatfield |
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rwitt_2000
I only have this one cropped from a larger image. Can't read the number so it may not be a N-25b. It appears to have the original brake arrangement.
Attached: The origins for the N-25 hoppers was the N-13 that had longitudinal hoppers dumping outside the rails. The attached photo is from Randy Anderson's collection.. Bob Witt |
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Bob
Your earlier post (2014) said that you thought the photo showed an N-13 covered hopper. The "Randy Anderson" photo is from some photographer - dunno who - and the slides were duplicated by Jim Gerstley (or his fellow slide dupers) and I have copies of all of them. There were some real gems - all color shots from the late 1940's. Tim O' On 8/16/2019 1:13 PM, rwitt_2000 via Groups.Io wrote: I only have this one cropped from a larger image. Can't read the number so it may not be a N-25b. It appears to have the original brake arrangement. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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I have a B&O diagram for the N-25b class covered hoppers numbered 630104-630177 of 1936.
It shows the class having a vertical brake wheel and box, with a notation they had rack operated hopper doors. Lightweight 43,200 lbs., load limit 125,800 lbs., 1,238 cu. ft. capacity, built by B&O at Cumberland. The posted photo of B&O 630120 suggests this if you look carefully at the left end of the running board. A vertical brake staff and horizontal brake wheel were on class N-24a cars, numbers 630025-630074 built in 1933. They are also noted as being equipped with sliding hopper doors. Lightweight 45,500lbs, capacity 100,000 lbs. at 1,716 cu. ft. Ed Bommer l |
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Andy Carlson
Randy Anderson was visiting Florida and went to a local hobby store. On the store's counter was a box of Kodachromes. From what I saw these were mostly high quality Kodachromes. They were offered for $1 each, and by that time the locals had purchased all but the open hopper slides. I always wondered what the box cars could have been, for most of the slides were from about 1949. Too cool, and Richard Hendrickson comes to mind as someone who really could appreciate freight car slides of that era. I do know that hopper cars were low on his favorites list. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Friday, August 16, 2019, 11:55:28 AM PDT, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Bob
Your earlier post (2014) said that you thought the photo showed an N-13 covered hopper. The "Randy Anderson" photo is from some photographer - dunno who - and the slides were duplicated by Jim Gerstley (or his fellow slide dupers) and I have copies of all of them. There were some real gems - all color shots from the late 1940's. Tim O' On 8/16/2019 1:13 PM, rwitt_2000 via Groups.Io wrote: I only have this one cropped from a larger image. Can't read
the number so it may not be a N-25b. It appears to have the
original brake arrangement. Attached: The origins for the N-25 hoppers was the N-13 that had longitudinal hoppers dumping outside the rails. The attached photo is from Randy Anderson's collection.. Bob Witt Attachments: _._,
-- Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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