A 1949 photo (generakky poor quality) taken at Wawa, Ontario shows a Pennsy
hopper as one of many hauling sintered ore between Wawa and Michipicoten
Harbour and as needed, to the Sault in winter. At first and for a long time,
the very hot roasted ore was dumped into these used hopper cars and immediately
quenchedr ight there, thus quickly burnpaint and any previous identity clue
away — the only way the railway could keep car numbers on car sides was to weld
plates between two of the ribs and paint numbers there. Local knowledge said
all those hoppers came from ”coal roads’ moving to three bay hoppers.
The Rapido newsletter says other railways bought the particular hoppers they
are now modelling; the ACR only rarely bought things new and would have bought
a considerable number of used hoppers for the recently opened and thriving
Helen Mine.
Dale Wilson
dale.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 25, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Dave Love <dlove101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The newsletter shows a CN hopper? Rapido has always done a good job of
prototypically accurate models. It’s not flagged as ‘fantasy’, so I would
expect it’s an accurate model based on the same plan?
Regards
Dave Love
On Dec 25, 2020, at 10:20 AM, John Riddell <riddellj@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have not seen any evidence of O&W hoppers in Canada. Many others though.
Locomotive coal for Ontario and Montreal was imported from mines in Ohio and
other eastern U.S. mining areas using a wide variety of US hoppers including
PRR, N&W, L&N, C&O.
John Riddell
-----Original Message----- From: Gerald Henriksen
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2020 1:04 PM
To: cpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cpha] GLa hoppers in Canada?
Rapido today also announced the Pennsy/O&W/other GLa hoppers, anyone
happen to know if these made it up into Canada?
https://rapidotrains.com/products/ho-scale/freight-cars/ho-scale-gla-hopper ;
