| Posted by Triplex on April 27, 2021 | |
That L&N high-side hopper with the yellow stripe holds my attention. I've seen photos of B&O-patched-to-Amtrak E8s before, but I don't think one of those hoppers.
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The hopper looks like 32025 which makes it an Ortner 7000 cu/ft woodchip hopper, probably from 1971.
L&N owned two series of this type, 31000-31099 and 32000-32111. They were 6-bay hoppers, like most jumbo chip hoppers of that era, but unusual in having a noticeable gap in the centre, between the 3rd and 4th hopper bays, instead of the bays being evenly spaced. Frisco and the Western Maryland owned the type too.
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