Looks like a 70-ton high side 2 bay hopper of some sort. Anyways, this has been parked in the grass on the Beech Mountain Railroad for the last 7 years of the line's inactivity (started up again January 2005).
a KATY hopper upside down in the woods along the (now abandoned) West Virginia Northern. Preston County. Kingwood, WV. This car is BKTY 4016.
Some UK private owner stone hoppers for today...first two fleets work out of the Westbury area in trains operated by EWS and Mendip Rail. Foster Yeoman... Hanson...(Fascinating inside bearing trucks on these!)
Aggregate Industries (Bardon Aggregates) has a new fleet... The brand new air-brake era 1970's style is represented by this old wagon - formerly leased to ARC quarries by Procor, it's now part of the VTG fleet, by way of CAIB...
UK stuff traditionally has a coupling hook with a screw coupler (or similar) to join vehicles together These are a couple of shots of the Foster Yeoman hoppers as above - the end: Hanson and Yeoman's fleets are set up with 'inner' and 'outer' wagons, outers have buffers and screw couplings on one end and knuckles on the other, inners have knuckles both ends as here:
I don't think I have any pics. I should have taken roster shots of the cars I saw on the Moffat, but only in hindsight did I realize how useful they could have been! Glad you liked it!
Some modern cars, really gons not hoppers, loaded with some Wyoming about to reach their destination in Texas.
Another fallen-flag hopper: Captured this with my digital at Connersville, IN on the Whitewater Valley RR in mid-November, en route to Maine.
