05-18-2010, 08:19 AM
GERN was an early pioneer in the use of covered hoppers, with their first being these converted Dominion (Fowler) boxcars:
[album]101[/album]
Engineers at GERN, along with designers at the EG&E's Car Department, next developed and built a prototype of a true, all-steel, covered hopper. After exhaustive in-service tests, National Steel Car, in Hamilton, Ontario, was awarded the contract to build the first lot of EG&E covered hoppers.
The cars currently in service were built in the mid-'30s, to two slightly different designs.
The first bear some resemblance to those later offered by ACF...
[album]580[/album]
...while the others are similar to a later offering by Pullman Standard:
[album]581[/album]
Wayne
[album]101[/album]
Engineers at GERN, along with designers at the EG&E's Car Department, next developed and built a prototype of a true, all-steel, covered hopper. After exhaustive in-service tests, National Steel Car, in Hamilton, Ontario, was awarded the contract to build the first lot of EG&E covered hoppers.
The cars currently in service were built in the mid-'30s, to two slightly different designs.
The first bear some resemblance to those later offered by ACF...
[album]580[/album]
...while the others are similar to a later offering by Pullman Standard:
[album]581[/album]
Wayne