Sailormatlac 2012 Resolution Challenge

[sailormatlac]

Wayne, interested in the diesels? You? For real? ;-) Just kidding. In fact, I wonder if CNR really hauled wood chips in the '50s. It was probably marginal compared to the '70s 'til now.

I checked Ian Cranstone's website. The oldest wood chips cars I found were roofless 40' boxcar:

"455000-455054, Roofless Boxcar, Revenue service: 10/1960-1/1972: Stl. frame. Wood chip svc. x574000-574696 series /60, re#851000-851111 series /66-/68."

According to him again, a few of them were rebuilt from old automobile 40' boxcars serie 573500-574696 built between 1936-37.

The ANSWER: no specific cars, just your plain average hopper.

in 1958

I like the flexible hose for filling them up (or cleaning). It's that kind of piping I'll had to my structure.



Here a regular hoppers with steel extensions à la SP&S.









This website is a mine of information. http://www.toucherdubois.ca/tdb/theme.ph...=1&lang=en Images range from late 19th century to late 20th. Check "Thematic Collections" and choose sawmills.

Matt