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In 1948, the PRR built a total of 300 H32 Covered Hopper Cars in
number series 253500-253799. Welded construction was used for both
the superstructure and the underframe. The material was high tensile
steel. The cars had a plain welded roof and 14 roof hatches, each
with a 3 by 3 opening. The metal running boards were Apex Tri-Lok.
There were four bulkheads, creating five bays, each having two hopper
openings measuring 13" by 24". The hopper bottom mechanism
was furnished by Enterprise Railway Equipment Co. The horizontal
sliding doors were hand operated, using a rack and pinion. The trucks
were Class 2E-F22A, made by American Steel Foundries with Type A-3
Ride Control. The couplers were Type "E" with Imperial
rotary bottom operated uncoupling devices.
There were
four PRR paint and lettering schemes on this car. First was the
Circle Keystone (CK) as delivered in Freight Car Color (FCC) with
white lettering. Second, some shopped cars received the gray body
color with the CK scheme in black. Third, some had the Shadow
Keystone (SK) with gray body color with black lettering. And lastly,
the Plain Keystone (PK) scheme with gray body color with black
lettering was also used. In addition to the PRR schemes, they
were also painted in both Penn Central (gray and green) and Conrail
(gray and red) schemes.
In this production
run, we are offering models of the eye-catching cars in each of
these prototypical liveries, and also in eight fantasy paint schemes.
The owners of the "Fantasy Paint Scheme" models did
not own any of the H32 prototype in real life, but they did operate
similar covered hopper cars.
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