Q hopper in St. Paul

[hegstad1]

I caught this CB&Q hopper in St. Paul last week. Has it been 35 years since the merger?

Andrew
http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/data/hegstad1/2005111182635_CB&QHopper.jpg

[E-8]

Good catch.

Charlie

[HemiAdda2d]

Wow! Indeed, it has been 35 yeras ago, and highly likely, that hopper was built in the mid 60's....

[Gats]

Nice weathering and in remarkably good condition for it's age! Good catch, Andrew.

Hey, Hemi, is that hopper a close approximation to the Trainworx N hopper?

[hegstad1]

Gary,

This does appear to be a match, if not an exact match, for the Trainworx Quad-Hopper which is, as I'm sure you know, available in CB&Q paint.

Andrew

[BoxcabE50]

Originally posted by hegstad1:
I caught this CB&Q hopper in St. Paul last week. Has it been 35 years since the merger? Hard to believe it's already been that long. Harder still, to figure out how this one was missed by the paint shop!

:D

Boxcab E50

[doofus]

These used to populate the sugar factories in my area. They do show up once in great while.

[BoxcabE50]

Originally posted by doofus:
These used to populate the sugar factories in my area. They do show up once in great while. Keep your camera handy! For a while here, we were regularly seeing ex-GN and NP chip cars. Then, suddenly, gone. The industry closed.

:(

Boxcab E50

[HemiAdda2d]

We still see Rocky and NP chip racks thru Cheyenne, on DENLAU trains.

[MRL]

ASWOME, great find! smile.gif

[chessie]

I think that's a great catch! I caught a Frisco hopper recently, but don't anyone tell Charlie.. tongue.gif

Harold

[SDP45]

I remember seeing a bunch out here in the wilds of Washington in railroad tie reclamation service. BNSF had replaced a few thousand ties and stacked them all here in town. All were loaded into a bunch of ratty Q hoppers. Neat to see.

[Stourbridge Lion]

A solid Fallen Flag catch!!!!!!!

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[BoxcabE50]

Hey Dan- Did you have a camera handy?

:D

Boxcab E50

[HemiAdda2d]

Last time I caught anything from the Q, I was in Golden, CO at the Coors plant:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/BN/abt.sized.jpg

[SDP45]

Yes, I had a camera. No, I cannot find the shots. :mad:

[BoxcabE50]

Oh no!!! :eek: Call the local scout troop. Get together a search party!!! tongue.gif

Hope you can find!!!

:(

Boxcab E50

[Doug A.]

I took a pic of a Q hopper not long ago in Bowie, TX. It may be the same one I'll have to check. I didn't have good light at all, though.

Hemi, when did you catch that boxcar? That's pretty sweet. Is it C&S reporting marks?

[HemiAdda2d]

At the Coors complex in Golden, CO. It has since been moved to the Colo. RR Museum. Along with a D&RGW GP30, and this:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/BN/abs.sized.jpg

[campp]

Here's my Q offering, found this in Phoenix last year:
http://www.railimages.com/albums/album372/aav.jpg
CB&Q 197334

[HemiAdda2d]

Caught in Chey-oming a few weeks ago:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/BN/adx.sized.jpg

http://www.railimages.com/albums/BN/ady.sized.jpg

[hegstad1]

Fun to see all the good pics guys!

Andrew

[HemiAdda2d]

Any more survivors? Certainly there's more out there...

C&S was a subsidiary of CB&Q, last I checked...
Here's a C&S caboose at Georgetown, CO:

http://www.railimages.com/albums/album22/afx.sized.jpg

[Triplex]

Hemi-

I like that 4-bay hopper. When I think of patched-over numbers and reporting marks, I usually consider it a modern thing. I don't often see it in steam-era shots, for example. But here it is, a car that was obviously relettered/renumbered before 1970!

[Martyn Read]

Triplex, it might be the car was just restencilled because the number had become unreadable. BN seemed to usually renumber when they did that sort of thing, but I don't know about BNSF?

(UP for example keeps lots of old reporting marks going)

Still a cool catch though, and well spotted on a very nondescript car! :D

[Triplex]

I assumed that's why they did it. What I meant was, I usually think of mergers when I mention renumbering, not just repainting unreadable letters. But it happens all the time.