N&W 120-ton Coal Car
N&W Hopper of the 1920s.
from a 1922 magazine, in the public domain
The tendency to increased car size has not yet died out, and it
would hazardous to predict with the idea a certainty is stated as to
just where upward tendency will stop. For a number of years the Norfolk &
Western Railway has had cars of 100 tons capacity in service, and
the Virginian has
been using carrying 120 tons for some time. The Norfolk & Western
has also developed a car of 120 tons capacity has had a sample car in
service for a number of months. The performance of car has been so
satisfactory that it is probable that an order will soon be placed its
duplication on a large scale. As will be seen from the photograph the
car is of the hopper type in which differs from the cars of 100
tons. Like that car however it is carried on six wheeled trucks,
and though the car here illustrated is shown with the usual center
plate and side bearings, it is probable that the new cars will be
fitted with the four point support after the manner of the 100 ton
capacity cars already referred to.
N&W hopper plans