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.
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MRH-Dec 2014
