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Viewing Album:  CR: "Makeover" (H-43 into G52L) ~ May 1990
 
By:Thomas C. Ayers
Dates:5/1/1990 - 5/1/1990
Album Info:Here is a two-page article entitled "Makeover" that was published originally in the May/June 1990 issue of "Conrail Inside Track" magazine, pages 10-11. No author is specified. This article describes the evolution of railroad cars that were built and rebuilt in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, from 1964 through 1990. The original product was the Pennsylvania Railroad's H-43 hopper car, a three-bay unit capable of transporting 100 tons of coal or other cargo. These were produced in large numbers from 1964 through 1968. During the Penn Central Railroad era, the existing fleet was simply renumbered. Some 25 years later, Conrail decided to transform 300 of these H-43 hopper cars into G52L gondolas. "At a rate of five cars per day ~ 25 cars per week ~ the employees at the Hollidaysburg Car Shop at Hollidaysburg have transformed aging, out-of-service, 100-ton coal hopper cars into sleek, economical, gondolas ready to transport coal." "The hopper cars are stripped of their old bodies so that only the trucks and [center sills] remain, and then rebuilt. The finished cars sport flat-bottomed tubs to hold the coal instead of the traditional V-bottomed hoppers with doors underneath, and are used for rotary dump coal service instead of bottom dump service."
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"Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Page 10, 1990
Title:  "Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Page 10, 1990
Description:  Here is page one of a two-page article entitled "Makeover: Hopper Cars Get Facelift At Hollidaysburg Shop" that was published originally in the May/June 1990 issue of "Conrail Inside Track" magazine, page 10. Bottom Photo: Partially visible here is Conrail engine #6448, an SD40-2 built by GM-EMD in September of 1978 and rated at 3,000 HP. It's pulling CR G52L gondola #503030 that was built in 1964 at Samuel Rea as PRR H-43 100-ton hopper #227603 and later renumbered CR H-43 #476303.
Photo Date:  5/1/1990  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 5:47:43 PM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  CR 6448(SD40-2)
Views:  39   Comments: 0
"Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Page 11, 1990
Title:  "Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Page 11, 1990
Description:  Here is page two of a two-page article entitled "Makeover: Hopper Cars Get Facelift At Hollidaysburg Shop" that was published originally in the May/June 1990 issue of "Conrail Inside Track" magazine, page 11. Partial Caption: "The first set of rebuilt coal gondolas from Hollidaysburg were inaugurated in unit train service for Consolidation Coal Co." (Photo locations are not identified.)
Photo Date:  5/1/1990  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 5:48:29 PM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  RollingStock
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"Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Front Cover, 1990
Title:  "Makeover" (H-43 into G52L), Front Cover, 1990
Description:  Here is the front cover of a two-page article entitled "Makeover: Hopper Cars Get Facelift At Hollidaysburg Shop" that was published originally on the May/June 1990 issue of "Conrail Inside Track" magazine. Presumably, the illustration is entitled "The Threat From Big Trucks." The artist's name is not recorded.
Photo Date:  5/1/1990  Upload Date: 10/5/2023 5:46:58 PM
Location:  Hollidaysburg, PA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
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Views:  27   Comments: 0

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