Was the Southern articulated hopper car (with the disc-brake single axles) in aluminum? I believe all the Big Johns were…
UP had IIRC some hoppers articulated in the middle over a single truck.
Then there is that analogue of Iron Highway, the BN TroughTrain… which didn’t even work in steel, but did that stop 'em from implementing them in Wonder Metal???
The C&O model made by Globe I posted a picture of is actually aluminum.
As for beer cans, not interested in them full or converted to railroad cars.
Sheldon
I don’t know about a Southern hopper, but this ACL hopper claims to be stainless steel.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Which brings up another question…
How many freight cars were made of unpainted stainless steel?
-Kevin
I sure know a railroad with a whole lot of stainless cabooses!
That ACL car is a real worthy successor to a battleship gon! The only problem is that, after looking carefully at the car details, I find I’m suddenly hungry for something from Burger King…
Ed’s going to have his usual splendid documentation of the car… it’s a covered hopper, btw… but here’s some contemporary, if perhaps a little blurry, description:
https://www.freightwaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-12.12.06-PM.png
OMI made this in brass… but NOT properly shiny, it would seem.
And it sure looks like it made it to SCL (renumbered to 200000):
http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/4690/SBD%20200000.jpg
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