--- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacek...@...> wrote:
> But hoppers built for other roads would not be Gl's or Gla's (purely a PRR
> class designation...
Many coal companies in PRR territory (and a few outside of it) did buy Gla's
(and Gl's and even a few Gv's) to PRR specs with the PRR class designation
lettering. Apart from that, several railroads and private operators bought cars
that conformed in most respects to the design that PRR classed "Gla", and
calling those "Gla's" is a useful shorthand for "cars that were built to the
PRR Gla design except for trucks, cut levers, brake gear, and maybe a few other
fine details".
> There was a very good chance of finding a wagontop or ribside in any consist
> of boxcars, even on a shortline (which I model) with six or eight cars in a
> train. I have many photo records of that.
The catch is that, volume-wise, the B&O wagontops or Milwaukee rib-side boxes
were a very small portion of the total boxcar fleet, and statistically would
only be maybe 1 car in 150. Even the PRR X29, which was built by the tens of
thousands, would only be 2 or 3 cars in 100. Photographs show that a given car
did show up in a certain place at a certain time, but the photographer's bias
toward the noteworthy can skew the commonness or rarity of that event.
David Thompson
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