Spring rubber on hoppers

Posted by nitroboy

on Wed, Sep 22 2004 10:29 PM

While watching the Norfolk Southern main line traffic today with my daughter, I noticed what looks like a very big chunk of rubber in the middle truck spring. Now, some of the trucks had them, and some didn't. And these hoppers were older ones, some of the "NEW" date on them were from '77. Does anyone know what these are, or why they are in there?

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Posted by railman

on Thu, Sep 23 2004 4:10 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill

Answered in Trainsmag.com

[:0]sure...take all the fun out of what may have been a twenty page raging debate over this rubber.[;)]