PRR Class GN gondolas
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No description for this class is available yet. Sorry. Would you like to write one?
Some stats:
| Class | GN |
| Diagram? | no |
| Model | - |
| Comments | hopper bottom |
| Qty Built | ~4000 |
| Built | 1898-1902 |
| Capcy | 80,000 |
| Weight | 31,600 |
| Capcy box | 1,371 |
| Capcy heap | 179 |
| Sides | wood |
| Floor | wood |
| Ends | fixed |
| Sill | straight |
| Underframe | truss rod |
| I.L. | 26' 6" |
| I.W. | 9' 0" |
| I.H | 4' 5" |
| Truck center | 18' |
| length over strikers | 29' 0" |
| coupled length | 31' 4-3/4" |
| panels | 7 |
| height | 9' 3-7/8" |
| width extreme | 10' 1" |
| Trucks | arch bar |
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| keystone, V19#1
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Cars on the PRR roster (as listed in the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER)):
There were no members of class GN on the PRR freight interchange roster in 1944, 1948, 1952, 1953, 1958,1963, or 1968.
Equipment Diagrams online:
| Class(es) | tracing # | View |
| GN | - | elevation |
Plans and diagrams in print:
| Applicable Classes | Type | Publication | Page | Description | Tracing Number |
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| GG,GH,GN | Lettering Diagram | Keystone Vol 19, No. 1 | 18-19 | 1921
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| GN | Class Diagram | Keystone Vol 19, No. 1 | 16 |
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References:
- KEY 3/86 - Wooden Gondola Cars of the Pennsylvania System (Fischer, Ian)
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