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designs that Billmeyer and Small, a York, Pennsylvania car
builder, offered. EBT purchased other cars from this car builder
during the same time. Based on the designs at the time, the
cars were probably 12 feet long and had a capacity of 4.5 tons,
based on the locomotive performances at the time. Other ver-
sions of the four-wheel cars were for molten slag, iron cars
lined with fire brick and with spouts on each side for unload-
ing, much like contemporary slag cars, and unusual funnel-
shaped cinder cars. The listing of freight cars in the 1880s gave
the number of coal cars at 180, the ore cars at 30, and 10 cin-
der cars. This increased to 254 coal cars and 40 ore cars, with
an unknown number of cinder cars by 1905.
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3. The “buck jimmy” produced in On30 by Boulder
Valley Models. It is very similar to the cars used
by the East Broad Top. The car following the “buck
jimmy” is a Bachmann side-dump car and, while of
the same era, it was never used by the EBT. Photo
courtesy of Boulder Valley Models.
MRH-Dec 2014
