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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR Bay Window Caboose and 100 Ton Hoppers
The Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie RR established in 1875 connected the steel centers of Connellsville
PA, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown Ohio hauling coal, coke, iron ore, limestone, and
steel. The P&LE was known as the “Little Giant” due to the amount of tonnage
that it moved was dramatically out of proportion to its actual number of route
miles. Only 120 miles long the P&LE earned the most revenue per mile of any
railroad in the United States before its demise in 1992.
P&LE Bay Window Caboose
Brickshelf Gallery
No. 508 is one of ten bay window cabooses built at P&LE’s own shops in 1950 to
New York Central Plans. After its retirement in 1991 N0. 508 was donated to the
Railroad Museum of PA.
This is my favorite rail car I’ve built so far. When I spotted it at the museum
I knew I would end up building it one day. I spent quite a bit of time getting
the interior an underside details as close to the prototype as possible.
Here my MOC of 508 is sitting on the real 508.
P&LE 100 Ton 3 Bay Hopper
Brickshelf Gallery
These Hoppers were designed in 1960 by the Norfolk & Western RR as the H-11
class which is an enlarged PRR H-39 70 ton hopper. In 1964, the size was
increased to 12’ 3” high, cubic feet increased to 3433 and weight capacity
increased to 90-100 tons. The cars were built by PRR, B&O, C&O, N&W and RDG.
Bethlehem Steel and ACF supplied prefabricated kits to other railroads. Over
130,000 have been built. These
two
carry P&LE colors.
Questions and comments welcome.
Cale
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| (...) Cale, Wow. Great units and great details on both. The interior work on the caboose is awesome and inspiring. I will definitely be borrowing some ideas to improve my car interiors. Tremendous work. One question. I was wondering if you (...) (17 years ago, 26-Nov-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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