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

[Andrew Falconer]

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

[Andrew Falconer]

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.