Am I correct in thinking that some overhead signal supports were made from
old freight cars?
- Earl Henry, Nashville
In a message dated 8/16/2011 3:55:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Other car re-uses:
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.
Several southern roads added roof hatches for kaolin service, and PRR
added hatches to some round roof boxcars for coal tar service.
Then there are the "modern" boxcars, bulkhead flats and coal cars
converted to haul trash! Locally I see a lot of the CP bathtub coal cars (once
made
by Kinsman) in trash service. The bulkhead flats have steel plate welded
between the the bulkheads to make them into very-high sided gondolas.
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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