[PRR-talk] Coal drags

[robert netzlof]

--- On Sun, 5/11/08, Andy Miller <aslmmiller at rcn.com> wrote:

> The PRR had both 50t hoppers (GL, GLA, H31, etc), and 70t
> hoppers (H21, H22).

You forgot H25.

> Would coal drags have mixed them
> randomly,

Have I mentioned lately that I lived about 50 feet from the main line in Latrobe, 1938 to 1948? 

As I recall those distant days, coal trains tended to consist of 2 bay hoppers or 4 bay hoppers. I'll not say they were never mixed but I'm tempted to.

I suggest that a train having both would likely have a block of 4 bay cars and a block of 2 bay cars, but not a random mix. 

The 2 bay cars did tend to be mixed helter-skelter among themselves. That is, one would see any and all classes intermixed. 

Bear in mind too that trains then tended to be shorter than trains now. 

> ...or were they blocked from a particular mine or to
> a particular customer who requested one or the other size?

I have no knowlege as to why things were as they were.

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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