Here's a PRR cylindrical covered hopper. Winchester and Western RR used to get a variety of interesting covered hoppers to load with sand in the early 1990's. This photo is also at the Conrail yard in Millville, NJ, October 1993.
Bruce
Yeah, Conrail's rainbow years for rolling stock lasted a lot longer than the locomotive fleet! Just goes to show you that there are lots of possibilities for rolling stock on the east coast from 1960 to the present.
This one took over a year to repair and paint. It was supposed to be one of those "If we get it ready, will you apply the paint" There were over 50 in the group the first day helping out, by the third week that number dwindled to 4 including me. This was my third full size locomotive paint job. It could not be taken out of service so we worked on weekends. New Castle Industrial Railroad, New Castle, Pa. !0/28/1995. It developed water leaks around the cylinder liners in 1999 and was scrapped. The bell went to the KJR 7135.
Charlie
(10-28-2025, 06:35 PM)Charlie B Wrote: This one took over a year to repair and paint. It was supposed to be one of those "If we get it ready, will you apply the paint" There were over 50 in the group the first day helping out, by the third week that number dwindled to 4 including me. This was my third full size locomotive paint job. It could not be taken out of service so we worked on weekends. New Castle Industrial Railroad, New Castle, Pa. !0/28/1995. It developed water leaks around the cylinder liners in 1999 and was scrapped. The bell went to the KJR 7135.
Charlie
We used to have an S1 just like that for switching duties (and rail impact tests)... Oddly enough, before it was sent out to California museum, it was sighted in..... New Castle, PA!!!
I got one photo of it in New Castle while I was running the NCIR Christmas train in 2002. Actually it was sent to the The AC&J Railroad It had been acquired by a historical society in New Castle that never did anything with it and the group disappeared leaving the equipment to rot away. (There is a group in New Castle that is pretty good) It was acquired by the AC&J and NS actually moved it on it's on wheels for the trip. It is the featured photo on their home page. I can't remember when they got but there are phots of it on the ACJ in October of 2006 in the black paint with patches. By the way, the ISSR was an S2 originally Long Island Railroad 3003. Charlie
(10-28-2025, 08:52 PM)Charlie B Wrote: I got one photo of it in New Castle while I was running the NCIR Christmas train in 2002. Actually it was sent to the The AC&J Railroad It had been acquired by a historical society in New Castle that never did anything with it and the group disappeared leaving the equipment to rot away. (There is a group in New Castle that is pretty good) It was acquired by the AC&J and NS actually moved it on it's on wheels for the trip. It is the featured photo on their home page. I can't remember when they got but there are phots of it on the ACJ in October of 2006 in the black paint with patches. By the way, the ISSR was an S2 originally Long Island Railroad 3003. Charlie
We used to have an S1 just like that for switching duties (and rail impact tests)... Oddly enough, before it was sent out to California museum, it was sighted in..... New Castle, PA!!!
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Good data, Charlie! I was confusing the two switchers we used to own. An SW8 (2037) was the one that made its way to California. All of our rail ops are via Shuttle Wagon, which has been a great replacement for the switchers since we don't have to move too much too often or too fast.
