Hi everybody! I've got a few questions on co-op hoppers:
1. Who were the manufacturers?
2. Upon finding an old newspaper article about them, I found out that my family's hometown of Hordville leased 25 of such cars. How does one find out about the reporting mark sequences that go with the town's leased cars?
3. I know this may be off topic slightly, but are the old roundhouse co-op hoppers numbered correctly?
4. How long were the cars leased to the co-ops for?
5. What were the decades these cars were used by the co-ops?
Sorry if it seems like I'm asking too much too quickly. I'm interested in these cars and possibly modelling them. Thank you to anyone who can provide more information.
The Farmers Cooperative Association of Hordville leased some USLX covered hoppers that were built in 1980. These cars were light blue, with white block lettering.I don't know about the Roundhouse models...if they weren't of Evans-built cars of 4780-cubic-foot capacity, they wouldn't be correct. Numbers were probably in the range of USLX 26704-26718 and 26729-26738 (the intervening cars were leased elsewhere). I can vouch for 26707-26718, and 26737.They were likely leased for a period of only five years or so. At that point some started showing up with the lettering obliterated, lessees canged, etc. The USLX series were relettered and renumbered into a PLCX series beginning in the middle 1980s.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
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Thank you very much for the info!
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