These are PS-2 cars were bought new from Pullman-Standard by the Lehigh & New England for cement service, which was a major and apparently their almost only source of on-line revenue. The L&NE shut down within a couple of years, and this group of cement cars were sold to MP. Other LNE cement cars were sold to UP. I don’t have access to a roster right now to cite specific car numbers, but they were placed into a number block after the original MP cars since they arrived after the renumbering.

MoPac repainted the cars, but over time the large black LNE logo started to show through the paint, so they were pretty recognizable by the late sixties into the seventies.

MoPac’s own cement cars built around that same time were actually built by DeSoto shops using major components furnished by P-S but with slightly different assembly details, principally at the ends just below the roofline and in the detail of roof to side attachment.

Ron Merrick