HWCX 7132

Here's a link to the RR Pictures Archives website of reporting marks: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=691614 There are notes from an earlier batch from 2011, such as HWCX 5140 Owner: Halliburton Company (one of the world's largest oilfield service companies) Type: Covered Hopper AAR Class: LO: A permanently enclosed car, other than a box car, regardless of exterior or interior shape, for handling bulk commodities, etc. AAR Type: C112 Detail Info: Covered Hopper, Gravity Unloading, Permanent Roof, 3000-4000 cu ft capacity Plate: C . HWCX 7132, new, waiting in Wisconsin Rapids.

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brake data plate

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Apply unloading vibrator only in the bracket.

What, no sledge hammers allowed?

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Scroll right. Lots of new numbers. Looks like 'new models right out of the box'.

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After looking up the reporting marks on Widipedia, I remembered I have a model hopper. I think it was a Roundhouse kit, and possibly custom painted. I might have gotten it at a model railroad show in Iowa or southern Wisconsin, and at least 5 years ago.

Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures

February, 2012.

My best index page is on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011.