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Re: And a new hopper car
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:46:38 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Steven Barile wrote:
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> > Larry shield: Is this a gondola not a hopper???
> > SteveB
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> It's probably a gon. I think the defining characteristic of a hopper is
> that it has bottom doors. However there is some muddyness... In
> particular, you often will hear unit train cars called hoppers, but they
> have no bottom doors/chutes, they instead have "bathtub" (rounded)
> bottoms. The cars are emptied by turning them upside down (really!!! A
> giant machine with track mounted inside of it can turn 3-4 gondolas
> upside down at one time WITHOUT uncoupling them, which removes the coal.
The most definitive thing I see as characterizing a gondola v.s. a
hopper is that hoppers are tall and gondolas are short. Gondolas with
bottom doors/chutes are usually refered to as drop bottom gondolas.
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Frank Filz
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| Frank Filz wrote: What you have failed to consider is the hopper/gondola hybrid, which looks like a cut-off hopper car. Of course, I would defer to Lar for definitive details;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: And a new hopper car
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| Hmm... not sure I agree. At least not totally. It's muddy, and different railroads use different terms, as do different car manufacturers. I spent some time chasing my tail starting from www.nmra.org but didn't come up with anything definitive. I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) It's probably a gon. I think the defining characteristic of a hopper is that it has bottom doors. However there is some muddyness... In particular, you often will hear unit train cars called hoppers, but they have no bottom doors/chutes, they (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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