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Last Update: 2008-02-21
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In the context of this section, I use "reweigh date" and "repack date" interchangeably.
By 1904, the PRR had modified their GL twin hopper design by getting rid of the fishbelly side sill, and decreasing the number of panels from 10 to 8. They got some 25,000 of these. Other roads followed this design, but switched from the unique