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January 12, 2019 at 3:46 pm #6197tqvfjminParticipant
I am would like to model a Riceland elevator/mill (pre 1950) and am trying to confirm whether or not bulk rice was transported in boxcars as were other grains prior to the advent of covered hoppers. Lots of info on wheat, etc, but not rice and I don’t want to assume. Also, when did Mopac first begin the use of covered hoppers for rice and what types did they first use? Thanks.
Tim Nichols
January 19, 2019 at 3:35 am #9228Mike VanaParticipantIt would have been boxcars with grain doors prior to maybe 1965. After that date specialized covered hoppers were used that came with grain doors. About 1972 we specifically requested covered hoppers for rice and soy beans after Continental in New Orleans claimed our grain arrived spoiled. Then MoPac kindly provided rebuilt war emergency hoppers converted to covered hoppers that had been in cement service. Not good.
Jim Ogden
January 19, 2019 at 12:38 pm #9229princessclyne69ParticipantLike these?
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RG7
January 20, 2019 at 3:23 pm #9233tqvfjminParticipantThank you so much. 1965 it outside my modeling era, so boxcars it is!
January 29, 2019 at 5:29 pm #9268Mike VanaParticipantThat’s exactly what MoPac Delivered. Those cars had to have been in storage somewhere and our local elevator would have been better with boxcars and signode paper grain doors.
January 30, 2019 at 2:13 pm #9269Bud MossParticipantRon, The gray hopper is really interesting. I have several of these (Overland N&W brass models both wood and rebuilt with steel sides). I had no idea they survived to be painted in “covered hopper” gray. Mine will remain black and in coal service, but this is still interesting. On a 1960s layout, one of these in gray would be a real eye-catcher. Jerry
February 4, 2019 at 2:09 pm #9275peggyrothschildParticipantJerry
There was one of these converted covered hoppers sitting off Manchester Road and I shot almost an entire roll of Black & White of the roof, outlet gates, ends, hatches back in the late 1970’s and needless to say I’ve been looking for the negatives ever since! As I tell Linda “the house was empty when we left St Louis and the moving van was empty when it left here so it’s in the house somewhere”.February 5, 2019 at 5:03 pm #9278Bud MossParticipantCharlie, you mean that happens to you too? I am still looking for a slide of a Magor caboose that fell behind the workbench when it was still in the garage. That workbench is long gone, but no slide ever showed up. My usual rule is to lose something else and you will find the first thing you lost. Jerry
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