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Subject pretty much says it all but what hoppers would carry certain commodities?
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#2
Covered hoppers carry commodities that need to be protected while open hoppers carry commodities that don't.
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Should have stated covered hoppers such as 4 bay, 3 bay, center flow, pressured so on and so forth. As for my main concern I'm looking to move sand if this helps more less.
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railroader9731 Wrote:Subject pretty much says it all but what hoppers would carry certain commodities?

Those subject to possible contamination either f the cargo or the surroundings are carried in covered hoppers: grain, flour, industrial particulates, plastic pellets, powdered chemicals and so forth.

Things like coal, sand and ore go in open hoppers.
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#5
Sand & cement being heavy loads are usually carried in 2 bay covered hoppers. 3 & 4 bay hoppers are for lighter loads like flour, grain, plastic pellets, etc.
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I have several that carry Gern flux. and they stay busy

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Let me guess...3% busier than other, similar carriers. 8-)
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My model railroad is the Los Angeles Junction Ry. Next to their A Yard was Leslie Salt. Have the Switch Map for there & it says Southern Pacific 2 bay open tops were were used for salt. The notes on the map were done by Charlie Slater who was a conductor there then. Haven't been able to find pix of any yet. Did see a video of SP hoppers at a salt plant but they were 3 bays.
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MountainMan Wrote:Let me guess...3% busier than other, similar carriers. 8-)

Wow Good guess it just happens to be exactly 3%. So how did you figure that out?
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I have moved sand on the railroad a few different ways. First place I worked we were moving sand for construction purposes in open top three and four bay hopper cars that were loaded with a front end loader and opened over a pit with an auger. Another location took sealed 2 bay and 3 bay cover hoppers with colored sand that was used in making asphalt shingles. This was more like really small rocks but was listed as sand. Another location took older 3 bay covered hoppers with the hatches removed to load sand for construction purposes. The cars were not fully loaded as they would have been overweight. Another commodity was "man sand" which was the super fine material from the process of mining and processing rock. This was moved in old flood unloading coal car hoppers. Another location that I did not serve but went past was a location that made glass and moved refined sand in two bay covered hoppers with the round hatches.
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#11
The now gone glassworks in my hometown received its sand in two bay covered hoppers. Model Die Casting, Bowser, Atlas, Kadee, and probably lots of others, offer such cars.

Here's a couple of Bowser's ACF covered hoppers. They come with or without the partially open side panel and as kits or r-t-r:

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This Pennsy H-30 covered hopper is also from Bowser, but as r-t-r only. It comes in several prototypically correct paint schemes for Pennsy, Penn Central, and Conrail:

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This one was formerly an MDC PS-2, and for quite some time was one of the few short covered hoppers available. It originally had the round-style hatches common to PS-2 cars, but it also had some very heavy cast-on ladders and sill steps. When I decided to replace the steps and grabirons, I also decided to redo the hatches and outlet gates, using Bowser parts.
This is the only photo which I could find of the cars before modification. Cars 6807 and 6810 the MDC ones, while the others are from Bowser:

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...and this is the 6807 re-worked:

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Ramax also once offered a more modern short covered hopper, but mine are long gone, although somebody else, perhaps Athearn or Accurail have a very similar such car.

Wayne
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#12
The weathering of the hopper on the bottom photo is well done but the impression of the string of weathered hoppers on the second bottom photo is even greater!
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Lester Perry Wrote:
MountainMan Wrote:Let me guess...3% busier than other, similar carriers. 8-)

Wow Good guess it just happens to be exactly 3%. So how did you figure that out?

Lucky guess... 8-)
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