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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]Why were four-wheel ore cars called Jimmies?[/quote] Bucyrus,   I can't answer the "why" question.  But in my mind's eye I see a picture of a short car with two vertical round containers sitting on top.  The containers appear to be fixed to the car and part of the car.  And the car is described as a "coal jimmie" or "jimmy."   My best recollection is that I saw this picture in a book about the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.   John[/quote] Yes I know what type of cars you are referring to.  I think they were called pot hoppers.  Do they look like this?--<a href="http://www.borail.org/BO-No23001.aspx">http://www.borail.org/BO-No23001.aspx</a> These seem to be linked to the B&O, but I wonder if other roads ran them too. The basic jimmy was a four-wheel car.  It was a box on two axles, and four wheels.  I think most, or all, of them had spring suspension over each of the four wheels.  Jimmies and Jenniew were a part of the hopper class.  So the very early pot hoppers could probably be rightly called jimmies.
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