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Hopper car 190854 was written up in Railway Mechanical Engineer Sept. 1944 and Railway Age Sept. 9th 1944. Rebuilt at Havelock using aluminum panels the car weight was cut down 4 tons which would allow an extra 4 tons of coal to be handled on this car. It was an era when aluminum was cheap and was being experimented with in an effort to reduce weight in Hopper and Box cars.
The side and floor panels were aluminum and kept unpainted while all the steel was painted black to cut down on the di-electric problem of steel and aluminum mixed together I built an O Scale model of this car but can not remember which fall meet I had it in Steve in SC From: "richtownsend@netscape.net" <richtownsend@netscape.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wed, January 25, 2012 3:00:36 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's in HO) __._,_.___
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