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USRA 55-ton steel twin hopper: HO scale Mfd., by M.T.H. Electric Trains,
7020 Columbia Gateway Drive, Colum- bia MD 21046-1532. An HO model offered recently by
M.T.H. is a USRA 55-ton steel twin hopper–one of the most popular freight car designs of the 20th Century. Over the years several HO models and kits have been offered for this hopper, in- cluding kits by Accurail and Tichy Trains. Both kits are still available. World War I had been raging in Eu- rope since July 28, 1914. By the winter of 1916-1917 severe rail congestion at
ports in the northeastern U.S. created railroad traffic bottlenecks felt as far west as the Mississippi River and south to the Ohio River. The cause was largely determined to be insufficient numbers of freight cars. The U.S. en- tered the war on April 6, 1917, and in the summer of 1917 the Council of Na- tional Defense appointed the Commit- tee on Standard Box Cars of the Amer- ican Railroad Association to develop standard designs for freight cars. President Woodrow Wilson an- nounced that the control of railroads’ operations would be assumed by the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) as of December 28, 1917. In March, 1918, the Car Committee of the USRA announced the adoption of sev- en standard car designs, including specification 1005-B for a 50-ton steel twin hopper. On May 1, 1918, after ar- guments and compromises, the USRA placed orders for 100,000 of five of the adopted standard car designs with 17 of the nation’s car builders. Six builders were given orders for
25,000 of the steel hoppers. The hoppers were initially allocated to 20 railroads but after discussion, negotiations and adjustments the final allocations went to 23 railroads. Because the war was in Europe, the greatest need was in the east so the greater number of the cars, especially the hoppers, were allocated to eastern railroads. Some railroads stat- ed that the cars allocated to them were
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From the copper railroads at Superior, to the rugged grades on Ramsgate Hill outside Prescott, to the tourist sleepers parked at the rim of the Grand Canyon, to the rush of Southern Pacific transcontinental traffic passing through the busy Tucson terminal, Knoll’s pictures capture the trains, the people and the times. A must have for railroad buffs and photo collectors alike. Paperback, 115 pages, softbound, 8 ½ x 11
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