covers between September 1932 and August 1933 in an effort
to cut down on coal freezing in the cars. It was a very short-
lived experiment.
The remaining 600 series cars were scrapped in 1943, and
the East Broad Top began adding extensions to 124 three-
bay cars, raising their capacity to 40 tons. The East Broad Top
stopped the adding of the extensions in 1949, and no other
cars were converted.
Modeling these cars is very easy with ready-to-run brass and
plastic cars available in both O and HO.
In HO, three different companies have offered this car in plas-
tic and wood. For the longest time, the only model available
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11. Three-bay hopper 944 with the simplified lettering seen
on the cars at the end of service. This car is in storage at
Mt. Union.
was the Gloor Craft/Quality Craft hopper. If you have ever
tried to make wood look like steel, then you know how frus-
trating it can be, so most of us began to substitute .020”
plastic for the sides. While this did the job, it was at a time
when we didn’t have the CA glue to attach the metal castings
in the kit. Then we were fortunate to have the C&BT hopper
come on the market, allowing us to have a fleet of hoppers
where we didn’t tear out our hair building them. These two
kits were also available in O scale, so we had sympathy from
our large-scale brethren. Blackstone entered the market two
years ago, and now offers a ready-to-run version of this car in
HO with several different paint schemes and in both weath-
ered and unweathered version.
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12. Clinch River 870 is a C&BT Shops plastic model and
the EBT 912 is a Gloor Craft wood model. Both are HOn3.
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