Glue 2 50 ton cars together. You save on trucks and couplers. John
Armstrong
----- Original Message -----
From: JBMiller
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Question about a 100-ton hopper.
The car was designed by N&W (class H-11), and looks like a stretched PRR
H-39. Roanoke shops built 6500 of them. I think they were originally 90
ton capacity and were later upgraded to 100 tons - at least that was the
case with those the Reading Railroad had. The Reading also used this
design and had 400 (class HTz) built by Bethlehem Steel's Johnstown plant,
the UP had 950 built by Bethlehem Steel, the SOO had 25 built by Bethlehem
Steel, and the C&O built 2000 in their own shops.
100 ton coal hopper cars have probably been one of the most common cars
on the real railroads for years, and I think S-scale desperately needs one
also -- a well done version that will compare favorably to what is available
in the other scales. This is a car that I think would also be needed in
large quantities on a layout.
This information and a drawing and article on the Reading hopper was in
the April 2001 RMC, page 61.
-- Jim Miller
>
> --- In [email protected], "jaydeet2001" <detche...@...> wrote:
>> The 100-ton car was N&W class H11a first built in 1963, and subsequent
>> subclasses.
>>
>> David Thompson
>>
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