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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ajrd thank you all for your help. converted two bay hopper,open hopper and gons will work to sand service duties on my C&EH rr. [/quote] No, yes and no... A small shortline would probably not use enough sand to generate reason for the capital outlay and then tied up even in converting its own car. the thing would hold too much sand... which (as someone has said) wouldn't stay dry. But you could fetch in sand in any of the other cars... except that it would be LCL (less than car load). So (what I would do is buy in dry bagged sand and store it next to something that stays hot like the boiler powering a small loco facility. Otherwise, buy it bagged and have a steel pan over a fire to tip the bag onto to dry it out before scooping it into the loco sand boxes.... or just tip it in an empty 40gallon drum over a fire...
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