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Funaro & Camerlengo has recently offered a new kit, No. 8241, that repre- sents a 40-foot, 50-ton steel gondola owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. In 1929 the New Haven purchased 500 50-ton, all-steel gondolas from Standard Steel Car Cor- poration. The cars, featuring corrugat- ed fixed ends, steel floor, and sides with nine exterior posts, had a capacity of 1,497 cubic feet and a load limit of 80,000 pounds. The New Haven as- signed the cars class GA-2 and number series 58000-58499. Their dimensions were:
inside length 40′-0″, inside
height 4′-0″, inside width 9′-5″, exterior length over striking plates 41′-5″, exte- rior width 10′-3″ and height from rail 7′-6″. To facilitate unloading, the floors had four drop-bottom doors,
each
measuring 3′-1″×2′-6″. Of the 500 original series 58000 drop-bottom class GA-2 gondolas, the numbers in rev- enue service were: 1940 (499), 1951 (17) and 1953 (0).
In approximately 1950, New Haven started a program of rebuilding its
58000 series class GA-2 drop-bottom gondolas into solid-bottom cars, main- taining their original 58000 series num- bers. The numbers of these 58000 series solid-bottom cars in revenue service were: 1940 (0), 1951 (478), 1953 (412), 1956 (203), 1960 (11) and 1972 (0). Around 1955, New Haven started a program renumbering its 58000 series solid-bottom gondolas to series 59000- 59249. There appears to be no obvious physical changes made.
The numbers of these 59000 series in revenue service were: 1954 (0), 1956 (59), 1960 (217), 1965 (183) and 1972 (0). The ownership of the cars changed when the Penn Central took over the New Haven at the beginning of 1969. Likely none were repainted by Penn Central, which quickly retired these relatively short 40- year-old gondolas. By December, 1971 none remained in revenue service. The class GA-2 gondolas in revenue
service, always painted black, carried three lettering schemes during their lifetimes. As-built in 1929 they carried the distinctive white script herald “The New York, New Haven and Hartford” in the third side panel from the right end. Cars repainted after 1937 re- ceived block lettering NEW HAVEN along the sides.
Some cars had script lettering after 1937 until they were repainted. Cars re- painted after 1954 received a large or- ange “N” above “H” over the right-most post of the car side and retained the white reporting marks. This post-1954 lettering style is identified with Patrick McGinnis, who assumed the presidency of the New Haven in 1954. Some cars retained their block lettering after 1954 until they were repainted. Color photographs of NH class GA-2 gondolas were published in the book NH Color Guide to Freight and Passen- ger Equipment, published by Morning Sun books.
The New Haven owned similar
longer gondolas with an inside length of 42′-0″, which should not be confused with the 40′-0″ class GA-2. The longer gondolas were class GA-3 and GA-4 in
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