Roll Call two bay open top hopper cars

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Tue Oct 09, 2012 1:33 pm

Karl Johnson sent me some additional photos of older hoppers. There are two at the Western Railway Museum; the shorter one is WP 10429, listed in the WRM roster as a Rogers ballast car, and the other (maybe ex-SP?) doesn't appear in the WRM roster. Both are in ballast car configuration.

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And then there are two of these around, one at PTM and one at Seashore... do they count? :)

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Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

j32885 wrote:

The Greenfield Village Railroad @ Henry Ford Museum owns N&W 28502.

Norfolk & Western 28502
http://photos.greatrails.net/showpic/?p ... 20Railroad

Can be seen in this video @ the 4:00 mark.

Detroit, Toledo, & Ironton 45 (Roundhouse/Siding Tour), 05-28-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32lOsgEr5I

Was discussed over @ RRfan.com Board

NS Michigan Line 6/17/08
http://www.railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewto ... =20&t=8838

Enjoy! ^_^

Well, N&W #28502 sure LOOKS like it could be a two bay car, but hard to tell for sure from these photos. It might actually be a three bay car. N&W class is not shown, so no help there. Better photo needed, or maybe someone from Weiser Railroad (Greenfield Village) or N&W Historical Society could verify.

Les

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Frank Hicks wrote:

Karl Johnson sent me some additional photos of older hoppers. There are two at the Western Railway Museum; the shorter one is WP 10429, listed in the WRM roster as a Rogers ballast car, and the other (maybe ex-SP?) doesn't appear in the WRM roster. Both are in ballast car configuration.

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sm-rypn-wrm-hoppers1.JPG

And then there are two of these around, one at PTM and one at Seashore... do they count? :)

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sm-rypn3618ber.JPG

Frank -

The two hoppers at WRM are interesting, but are ballast cars, not hoppers. No inclusion. Sorry. Electric motor #3618 with hopper doors is a wonderful piece of equipment. But again, not a hopper CAR! HEY, that's three strikes....you're out!

Les

10stewi · **Posted:** Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:47 pm

Isn't there a CV 2 bay hopper car over at Essex?

Here is a link for a youtube video of the two abandoned hoppers in Louisiana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOTPkn ... ults_video

10stewi · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:32 pm

Yep found her! Does anyone have a better picture or a car number on her?

Howard P. · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:22 pm

CV 20088, built 1912. Sold ca. 1972 to Wendel Lomba and brought to VRR as "WL 1". Used occasionally as ballast car during the 1970s-early 80s. Transferred to VRR ownership (by death of Lomba?) and restored by VRR about 10 years ago as CV 20088, with VRR herald and phone number on side.

Howard P.

big-bad-2666 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:39 pm

Les Beckman wrote:

j32885 wrote:

The Greenfield Village Railroad @ Henry Ford Museum owns N&W 28502.

Norfolk & Western 28502
http://photos.greatrails.net/showpic/?p ... 20Railroad

Can be seen in this video @ the 4:00 mark.

Detroit, Toledo, & Ironton 45 (Roundhouse/Siding Tour), 05-28-2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32lOsgEr5I

Was discussed over @ RRfan.com Board

NS Michigan Line 6/17/08
http://www.railroadfan.com/phpbb/viewto ... =20&t=8838

Enjoy! ^_^

Well, N&W #28502 sure LOOKS like it could be a two bay car, but hard to tell for sure from these photos. It might actually be a three bay car. N&W class is not shown, so no help there. Better photo needed, or maybe someone from Weiser Railroad (Greenfield Village) or N&W Historical Society could verify.

Les

Les,

N&W #28502 is indeed at three bay car. NS/N&W #133215 is also a three bay car.

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

What's in the cocoon behind the hoppers?

big-bad-2666 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:08 pm

robertjohndavis wrote:

What's in the cocoon behind the hoppers?

That would be the tender to our 4-4-2 "Atlantic" on display in the roundhouse.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Mr. F -

Thanks for the clarification of N&W hopper #28502. I had a sneaking suspicion it might be a 3 bay car.

Les

j32885 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:28 am

Sorry, for posting wrong info. I've always seen N&W 28502 from the Michigan Ave. (US- 12) side of the tracks. Thought from looking at it's size it would of been a NW 2-Bay hopper. Couldn't find other pictures. Thanks to BB2666 for clearing this one up.

nictd1000 · **Joined:** Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:30 pm **Posts:** 73

Ah ha!

Found a link to a photo at Durbin that shows one of the C&O hoppers...

C&O 49284

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2073486

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Les Beckman wrote:

I was going through old photos. The first shows an old Wabash 2 bay hopper car on the Toledo, Lake Erie & Western tourist line which runs out of Waterville, Ohio on an old NKP line. The photo on the back reads as follows:

"10-15-95 TLE&W hopper 702 (AEX 204) Providence, Ohio"

The gray-painted car in the photo is one of those "Panel Sided" cars that were common on the Wabash (and a few other railroads) and I believe that AEX was (is?) Anderson's, a grain elevator which is well known for purchasing and rehabbing old railroad equipment for their private use. At one time I believe Anderson's had quite a few of these old Wabash hopperson their roster. Does anyone know if this particular car is still in existance there on the TLE&W?

Les

A gentleman by the name of Walter (last name?) recently sent in a bunch of photos he took in November of 2012 and lo and behold, one of them is of this subject hopper car! I will try to post a copy here. You never quite know when an update to an old thread is going to occur. This one was a pleasant surprise.

Les

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:26 pm

Some time back, wasn't there a thread about a string of old hoppers on abandoned track in Louisiana? I think there is something on Youtube about hiking in to view them.

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

Richard Glueck wrote:

Some time back, wasn't there a thread about a string of old hoppers on abandoned track in Louisiana? I think there is something on Youtube about hiking in to view them.

Yes, I believe I added these to the list.