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Can anybody direct me to any details on the web about the earliest purpose built grain hopper cars to run in the US? The reason for my request is that I am building a freelance New England narrow gauge layout, set in a later period than any of the actual lines survived (as per Dave Frary's Carabasset & Dead River). Whilst the actual New England lines carried grain in boxcars (as did many of the standard gauge lines of the time) it is not inconceivable that had they survived and expanded then they would have developed purpose built cars to handle Canadian grain traffic. Neil
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