Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Aluninum Hoppers

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

Floors on hopper cars are known as "slope sheets" but maybe not in New Zealand. Not being critical just giving nomenclature. And yes, 190854 had them.

From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Aluninum Hoppers

 



190854 also had an aluminum floor

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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From: John D. Mitchell, Jr.

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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:57 AM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Aluninum Hoppers

190854 was a class HT-2 twin hopper that was almost an exact copy of class HT-1 hopper car which in turn were almost copies of the USRA cars with the exception of the hand brakes. So with a little work on the hand brake, you can come pretty close. You should note that 190854 got Bettendorf trucks instead of Andrews when rebuilt.

From: "richtownsend@netscape.net" <richtownsend@netscape.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Aluninum Hoppers

 

The only 55-ton aluminum CB&Q hopper I know of was 190854, a rebuild of one of their 55-ton hoppers with the side sheets in two parts.  This was not a USRA hopper.

Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul K. <kozys@comcast.net>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 11:45 am
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Aluninum Hoppers

 

Greetings!

Following is a link to Accurail models new products for January:

http://tinyurl.com/7xjzuy9

Scrolling down the page you will see they are offering a 55-Ton USRA ALUMINUM hopper car.

My question is did the 'Q have any of these cars in the period just prior to the merger? I'm familiar with the larger capacity 'silver sides' hoppers of that time but did they even make a 55T version in aluminum? And more importantly to my modeling, if so did the CB&Q have any of them as this model suggests?

Thanks in advance for any info on these cars.

=|===|= "Paul (Kossart) - The CB&Q Guy"
=|===|= Peru, IL, *USA*
=|===|= (Modeling Late 1960

 

 

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