The Norwood and St Lawrence, a northern New York State shortline, was primarily
an industrial carrier for a paper mill (I think St Regis), and routinely used
single-sheathed
boxcars without roofs for hauling pulpwood; I think there was a photo in Beebe
and Clegg's Mixed Train Daily, and that was back in the 1940's.
B&O not only installed hoppers in single=sheathed cars but even in wagontops;
PSC offered that variation as a brass import in O scale.
Pecos Brass offered a brass import in O scale of a covered hopper sans roof in
ballast service, factory painted for C&NW (I have one) and ATSF and perhaps
other roadnames
with which I am not familiar. It would be an easy conversion for the Weaver
plastic O scale car; whether it would also work with an SHS PS-2 I don't know,
but am not about
to find out with one of mine...
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> MEC and maybe BAR removed the roofs from single sheathed boxcars, added cross
> ties at the top, and used them for pulpwood service.
>
> B&O and D&H both added hoppers, roof hatches and slope sheets to USRA single
> sheathed boxcars to turn them into covered hoppers for cement service.
> Central Vermont had some XM-1 SS boxcars with roof hatches and hoppers for
> grain service.
>
> The photos posted this week for Gary Ippolito included a very nice PS-2
> covered hopper to open ballast hopper conversion.
>
> Pieter E. Roos
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