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With the need for higher capacity coal hoppers, railroads turned to new designs in the 1980s and 1990s. Bethlehem Steel Car (now renamed Johnstown-America Corp) produced the first prototype coalporter in 1978. Among other improvements over the traditional 100-ton hopper, Coalporters eliminated the bays and replaced them with higher capacity toughs. This classified the cars as gondolas, since the cars need to be rotated on their sides and dumped.Roster Introduction:
The roster below is the result of hard work of Robert Russell, Eric Nuebauer, and Lon Godshall. They have attempted to correct the errors that kept appearing in the Conrail coalporter rosters that magazines have been publishing the past several years.
CR Series Class Build Dates Notes ============================================= 503001-503300 G52H 01/91 - 09/91 1 503301-504800 G52L ??/91 - ??/91 2 504801-506400 G52L/G52R 01/92 - 08/92 3 506401-507400 G52R 12/92 - 05/93 507401-508000 G52X 07/97 - 08/97 4 508001 **** ***** ***** 5 508002-508601 G52W ??/97 - ??/97 6Notes:
1. 11-panel steel. According to Rob Russell, these are the same length as the G52L and G52R but 11" shorter.
2. 11-panel steel.
3. Eric Neubauer notes that these G52L's differ from other G52L's in that their sides, end plates, and corner caps are like the G52R. But the side sills are like other G52L's. At least one of these G52's has Reading-style reinforcements on the side plate. Though according to the trucks and stencil, this car is an ex-H43D. It appears that the first 400 of this series are G52L's.
4. 12-panel stainless steel.
5. Number vacant.
6. Former SFIX hoppers rebuilt by CR.
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