RE: [CBQ] HC-1A covered hoppers

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

I have nothing to confirm it, but they were likely stenciled FLOUR LOADING ONLY.  Earlier, the the days when flour was shipped in boxcars, there was a rather extensive stencil used on these "clean" boxcars that listed commodities that were not to be carried in them for fear of contamination, but this stenciling disappeared with the advent of covered hoppers.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: d.cameron@sympatico.ca
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 18:50:08 -0400
Subject: Re: [CBQ] HC-1A covered hoppers

 

I'd like to ask one further question about the group of HC-1As: does anyone know what additional stenciling might have been applied to the cars to indicate they were equipped for flour loading?  Any photos available?

Duncan

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Duncan Cameron

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 1:36 PM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] HC-1A covered hoppers

 

Hol,

Thanks so much!  That gives me four cars to model that I know were in town at one time or another.

Duncan

 

----- Original Message -----

From: HOL WAGNER

To: CB&Q Group

Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 10:03 PM

Subject: RE: [CBQ] HC-1A covered hoppers

 

Duncan:
 
They were equipped gradually over the period 1953-57 and thereafter were so equipped.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: d.cameron@sympatico.ca
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:43:10 -0400
Subject: [CBQ] HC-1A covered hoppers

 

In BB#20 Hol Wagner indicates that HC-1A hoppers #181046-181049 were equipped for flour loading 1953-57.

I'm looking for clarification on whether the equipping of these cars took place car by car over that four year span, or whether they were all so-equipped in 1953 and whatever modifications this involved were then all removed in 1957.

Reason for asking is that I know some (maybe all) of these cars served the General Mills plant in Keokuk, but since I'm modeling the early 1960s, I'd make plans to use some other cars if these four cars weren't being used for flour any more.

Duncan Cameron

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