George
In the 1930's, the primary coal cars on the Q were
composite gons. I spent a lot of time and work
documenting the Q coal fleet in BB #35. I beleive all
of your questions should be answered there, but if not
gave me yell and I'll see if I can't give you an
answer. In any event, keep in mind, that the Q used
it's coal cars very well.
John D. Mitchell, Jr.
--- Myron & Lois Dudenbostel <myroloi@e...>
wrote:
> George:
> According to BB#35 page 142.....
> " The Burlington bought its first steel hopper
> cars in 1926 from AC&F in
> the form of 500 55T twin hoppers numbered in the
> 190000 -190499 and classed
> HT-1. Then over the next 3 years, the Q's steel car
> shop at Galesburg
> copied the AC&F design in constructing 1250
> additional cars of HT-2, 3 and
> 4."
> Myron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <glw@r...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:11 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] CB&Q Hoppers
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> > Going through my 1930 ORER I find 1000 HM hoppers
> in number series
> > 190000 thru 190999. Does anyone have any idea what
> this series of
> > cars would have looked like. There was another 750
> cars in a later
> > series but appear to be the same style. 1750 cars
> doesn't seem to be
> > very many for a railroad hauling a lot of coal,
> especially over a
> > physical plant the size of the Burlington's. Was
> there other types of
> > cars used for coal service in the 1930's?
> >
> > Used to seeing coal hoppers in the quanities that
> the N&W and C&O
> > used them.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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