The number with which Conrail repainted this RDG car is wrong, which happens frequently. Checking the original painted-over end numbers, the correct reporting mark should read CR 484193, which is correct for an HTg class hopper. The number that Conrail gave the car does not exist!
Class: HTg
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 10-26-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: March 6, 2004

RDG 483557 was delivering coal to the APCO plant at Glen Lyn, VA on 21 December 2000, in the company of EL 33305.
Class: HTg
Location: Glen Lyn, VA
Photo Date: 12-21-00
Photographer: Joe Shaw     Added: May 29, 2004

A detail shot of the B end of the car.
Class: HTg
Location: Glyn Lyn, VA
Photo Date: 12-21-00
Photographer: Joe Shaw     Added: May 29, 2004

Note the paint chalking off the reporting marks and running down the side of the car.
Class: HTg
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 10-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: March 6, 2004

The old colored bar code sticker from the 1970s is still on this car if you look on the right side.
Class: HTg
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Photo Date: ?-97
Photographer: Bill Waller     Added: May 9, 1998

Talk about far from home rails! Chris spotted this in CA! Chris says that the car was in coal service destined to one of the local cement plants there - UP has been leasing several CR hoppers for coal loading out of Colorado and Utah here out west. UP has been getting entire trains of CR hoppers during the early part of 1999.
Class: HTg
Location: Mojave, CA
Photo Date: 3-12-99
Photographer: Chris Butts     Added: June 4, 1999

Class: HTg
Location: Danbury, CT
Photo Date: 11-29-80
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: October 15, 1998

Class: HTg
Location: Aberdeen, MD
Photo Date: 6-78
Photographer: Dick Leonhardt     Added: October 27, 2001

RDG 484025 was built 12-75, one of the last hoppers before Conrail.
Class: HTg
Location: East Deerfield, MA
Photo Date: 8-10-83
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: June 21, 2006

Class: HTg
Location: Bluefield, WV
Photo Date: 1-13-02
Photographer: Joe Shaw     Added: May 29, 2004

The reporting mark paint chalking seems to have been a problem with these cars, though this one doesn't haven't as bad as other.
Class: HTg
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 10-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: March 6, 2004

Class: HTg
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 1-95
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: October 6, 2022