The Bowser two-bay hoppers include a lead slope sheet cast-
ing that provides most of the necessary weight. These cars
are available in a variety of roads that provided cars for the
PRR to haul. Weathering the weight along with the car makes
it almost invisible.
Cars that always travel loaded can use any source of weight
from commercial castings, to lead sheet or lead shot, all hidden
underneath the coal. The loaded Bowser two-bay hoppers loan
their slope weight to other cars that will travel empty. An alter-
native for weighting empty cars is to carefully cut a thin piece
of lead to fit the slope sheet.
Every car in the fleet gets weighed.
2: Bowser slope sheet weight applied to a four-bay hop-
per. A little weathering makes the weight almost invisible.
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