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(erielack) The EL Hot 100...honorable mention #5

List...

Like the N&W and the PRR, the Chesapeake & Ohio also started building larger capacity 100-ton hopper cars in the mid-60s to a nearly identical design as their rivals.  The C&O cars were listed in several large number series:  60000 - 61599, 61600 - 63699, 68200 - 70499, 77000 - 78999, 157000 - 158999, and 159000 - 160999.  Altogether, there were 49 examples found in the EL freight train consist collection, which would put this car at number 53-54 in the EL Hot 100.

Picture...
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/co/co60674m10.jpg


Locations...
Most of the C&O hoppers were found going back and forth loaded to Donner-Hanna Coke Corp. in Buffalo and then empty back to the C&O interchange in Marion, Ohio.  Others were regularly mixed in coal trains coming off the B&O at Salamanca for the Metropolitan Edison power plant at Portland, PA.

Model...
Bowser makes a good model of one of these cars (nearly identical to the PRR H43), but the C&O and Chessie System hoppers are not currently in production.
http://www.bowser-trains.com/history/100thopperhistory.html

- -pat


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