RE: [CBQ] Hart Ballast Cars

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

John beat me to the punch in saying they were used in sugar beet service -- not exactly up Rich's alley or in his territory -- and the later 100-ton composite cars built during World War II were officially called ore cars, though they were indeed ballast cars.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: cbqrr47@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:11:32 -0800
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Hart Ballast Cars

 

Rich

In the wintertime, the ballast cars(of all classes) were frequently in coal service. There was seasonal shortage of coal cars of all types. The ballast cars were idle since that type of service was confined to warmer months. There are a couple of pictures in BB 35 of ballast cars in coal service. They were also used, to some extent, in sugar beet service.

John

--- On Tue, 11/20/12, rgortowski@aol.com <rgortowski@aol.com> wrote:

From: rgortowski@aol.com <rgortowski@aol.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Hart Ballast Cars
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 3:53 PM

 

List,

Excuse my ignorance, but this is about freight...  I have several Challenger HK-50-3 and HK-50-4 Hart Selective Ballast Cars.  They are numbered in the 220000 range so I'm assuming these were strictly for MOW purposes?  Would these cars ever get pressed into revenue service, or were they stricly for spreading ballast in work trains?  Any information available on these cars?

Thanks,

Rich G.

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