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History: In 1898, Pressed Steel Car
Co. built the first all-steel hopper car designated the GL. The Pennsylvania
Railroad would purchase several thousand of this design. Due to production
backlogs at P.S.C.Co. and flaws in the initial design, the Penny came up
with its own all-steel, bottom-discharge hopper car in 1904 designated the
GLa. Approximately 30,000 GLa?s were produced between 1904 and 1920. The
Pennsy also built Gla?s for numerous coal companies who were anxious for
the well-built and reasonably priced cars. Until the 1960?s, this design
was one of the three most numerous classes of PRR freight cars. Although
by this time, these cars began to rapidly disappear from the PRR roster,
a few made it into the Penn Central and even Conrail rosters, lasting into
the early 1980?s.
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the Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock lettering is as follows: |
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January, 1930 |
Circle Keystone Lettering
was applied. |
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June, 1954 |
Shadow Keystone lettering
was applied. |
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July, 1956 |
Plain Keystone (black car)
was applied. |
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Early 1960's |
PRR Initials started. |
Kit
Includes: One piece plastic molded body, underframe, brake
wheel, air reservoir, brake cylinder, control valve, X2f and McHenry KS
couplers, plastic trucks/wheels and steel car weights. Made in USA.
Associated Equipment Available: Add
coal loads made by Blue Mountain to your hopper car rolling stock. Two loads
are included in each package.
| Price | Description | Part # | | * n.a. | COAL LOAD BOWSER GLA 2BAY HOPPER | 30-65 |
Ordering: You can order any quantity. Different
road numbers are available indicated by the following keys in the "Description":
we have 3 road numbers available if the first letter is a plus sign [+]
and we have 12 road numbers if the first letter is an asterisk [*]
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Listing of Available Models and Associated Car Numbers: The list
below identifies the cars and roadnames that are currently available. Underlined
part numbers have pictures available for you to see on-line by clicking on part
number. Please note that each production run of a roadname uses a new series
of car numbers. We do not re-use a previous numbering series for any subsequent
production run. Thus, we only can fill orders for the most current production
run and associated numbering series. Please refer to our list of GLa 2-Bay Hopper car numbers that have be used and the current numbers which are available.
6 New Road Names
Classic Road Names
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