Reports on this and other sites say that the hopper was bad ordered and left for dead by Conrail. Might be worth the move for someone. If memory serves, it is a roller bearing car.

Later!
Mr. Ed

Ok guys, you have my attention with the hopper. With whom should I inquire?
Thanks!
Russ Swinnerton
Conrail Historical Society Director

I'd star with the Black River & Western since it sits on trackage they have rights to. It is parked below Lambertville station. If that doesn't pan out, contact CSAO in Philly to see if they still have it on any rosters. They have a tendency to lose cars. Only a sharp eye can find them.

Later!
Mr. Ed

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj93/sneezehorse1/hike289%206-17-7/107.jpg
Is this the hopper in question? I believe this CR ballast hopper is in Lansdowne, NJ

I pretty sure that is the car at end-of-track in Lambertville. The gravel path and the fence in the background are giveaways to me. The fence is around a lock on the old Delaware and Raritan Canal. (Or else another location that looks just the same-)

Any bodies in there?

Later!
Mr. Ed

I would like to know if parts, or the entire car, is worth getting from this one. A Reading commuter coach, believed to be in Milford, NJ

If nothing else, I would say that the seats, luggage racks, and maybe the trucks are worth saving.

I don't know the location, but the blue coach with the yellow letterboard is not a Reading car, but a CNJ 1300, just like the Lambertville car. The paint and the 27 pin MU connector for push-pull are the spotting features. I've ridden in them, perhaps this same car, many a time-

I just wanted to update everyone on the status of the CR ballast hopper. Three of us from CRHS stopped by on Sunday to document the car and it was gone. We thought we might be in the wrong place, but stuck in the dirt was a lone, torched off grabiron in CR MOW yellow. Four small piles of stone also marked the location of the end of the chutes. Another piece bites the dust.
Russ

Probably a victim of roving scrap thieves. Highly doubtful it was a "sanctioned killing."

Howard P.

According to Railpace, the ballast hopper was cut up as a part of an overall NS program to collect any and all metal in the Lansdown area.

Rob

I stand corrected.

Howard P.

HP,

While I have not seen anything to the extent search and destroy program done during the NS/CR transition days (or like what the Susquehanna wrought upon the D&H), there has been a noticeable effort the past year or so to rid the property of unsightly (and valuable) metal.

I wonder how long those CR gondolas will last up in Belvidere, NJ?

Rob

Weren't those old DL&W cars? Scott K., perhaps your horizons could be broadened? They are almost in your backyard....

Howard P.