Thrall Demo Car Questions (pics)

[Dough]

I was wondering if anybody knew anything about THRX 1001. It has "Thrall Pressure Differential Car, ThrallCar Manufacturing Company" on the side. I think that it is a model for one of their lines. I also think that it is the plastic pellet type. However, I was also looking for any details of the car. Is it in service for someone?

Also any ideas why it was at a nearly shut down plant? Storage or perhaps maintence?

And the final question is, does anybody have any idea why it was at the former Thrall plant in Winder, GA. It has been absorbed by Trinity, but due to the slup in car sales it was shut down. Their now appears to be a skeleton crew. I believe that they recently invested a bunch of money in the plant and that they plan to open it again someday. Does anybody know anything regarding the plant?





Thanks![;)]

[Allen Jenkins]

If you say Thrall, and the pic is recent, I'd say you are on Grassdale Rd, in Cartersville, Ga. I trimmed trees on the Georgia Power lines up to the plant on down the road from where you are. The PD car you show is actually a plastics pellet car, really, the particulars can be subject to change, as customer intuitiveness applies, however, I[d say that car is at this time no less delivering plastic pellets to Rix Products! Go to your local hobby shop, and show how much you like the factors of pneumatic discharge cars. The Thrall (a long time family owned business) car company built a five bay rapid discharge coal hopper that went five years without a service call! That the Trinity Rail Group has bought them tis' an hint that the mortaility rate for Carbuilders is high, anyway, orders for the product have dropped as so you see a nother type car where you do. On to your left, to the stop sighn, right down the road, you'll see the car jigs and fixtures, all lined up dwaiting, as they have for years, for the day, when TRG sandblasts the rust off and ane-hundred-twenty hoppers go into production, for so many roads. Features used to be the former Southern Railway SW1 #1014 un-accessable, but observable, during the open house days of old("Team Cartersville shirts"), Just an industry knodw, used when we need, not a viable way of life. and so.