Re: [CBQ] Intermountain GA 15 Gondola

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

Rich

According to the ARA designations, the difference between GA and GS was the hinge for the bottom doors. The GA door were hinged crosswise to dump between the rails. The GS doors were hinged at the centre sills to dump outside the rails.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

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Subject: [CBQ] Intermountain GA 15 Gondola

 

Intermountain made the USRA composite drop bottom gondola in the 165000 to 167999 range.  I thought I read those cars got reworked prior to 1950, but in the 1950 ORER it shows that 2442 cars were in service, but it calls them by the preface GS instead of GA. with the description gondola, composite, wood floor.

 

The ORER also shows the series that the GS5/6/7 would be in, so I'm guessing that the drop bottom gondola would still be in use in 1950?

 

Thanks,

 

Rich G

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