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When were the last Pullman-Standard Open-Top Hoppers and Gondolas built?

  • Pullman-Standard came up with a system for identifying freight cars in the 1930's or 1940's.

    PS-1 Box Cars

    PS-2 Covered Hoppers

    PS-3 Open-Top Hoppers

    PS-4 Flat Cars

    PS-5 Gondola

    A majority of the cars built by Pullman-Standard in the final decade before being taken over by Trinity were the Box Cars, Covered Hoppers, and Flat Cars.

    When were the last Pullman-Standard Open-Top Hoppers and Gondola Built?

    The few photos and models that I have seen of these cars show that the production on the PS-3 Open-Top Hoppers and PS-5 Gondolas might have been in the early 1960's.

    Does anyone know the history behind the Pullman-Standard production levels?

    Thrall Car and Greenville Steel Car Company were big competition to Pullman-Standard, so that might have been why the PS-3 and PS-5 were not built in the 1970's and 1980's.

    Andrew

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  • This is an upcoming publication by Signature Press. I might have to purchase it and other Signature Press titles sometime. It will cost $65 so it better be thorough for that price.

    Pullman-Standard Freight Cars, 1900-1960

    Edward S. Kaminski

     

    Pullman-Standard was for some years the largest freight car builder in North America, though perhaps more famous for passenger cars. This long-overdue book fills a gap in builder history, and provides an overview showing a selection of the many cars built over a 60-year span.

     

    Ed Kaminski is well known as an authority on freight car builders, and this book takes its place alongside his earlier work on American Car & Foundry, Magor Car Company, and the Gregg company. It contains a rich trove of some 400 photographs, most never before published, from Pullman and Pullman-Standard, and also from predecessors Haskell & Barker, Standard Steel Car Company, and Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company. Publication date April, 2007.
    Andrew

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