NEB&W Guide to USRA Panel-Type Twin HoppersThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-02-09
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This chapter contains the blister-panel rebuilds of 30 foot 8-panel twin hoppers (whether USRA-types or GLa types), unless otherwise noted. The first offset hoppers were built c. 1926, and 7 years later (1933), the idea arose of bulging the panels on ribbed cars. Sounds like a great retrofit, but the railroads found out they had to stock a number