You always Remember Your… Last?

This photo shows the last car in Chessie paint with a non-CSXT reporting mark that I have seen in person. This photo was taken September 11, 2004 at Penn Mary. The Canton Railroad crew was doing some yard work while we were there, moving cars from the interchange into their yard. There was another Chessie car in the bunch, but that one had been renumbered with CSXT reporting marks (see below).

Per the Chessie System Color Guide to Freight Equipment, these cars were part of Chessie class HC-44. Chessie had 1,300 of them split (unevenly) between the C&O and the B&O. It was Chessie’s largest class of covered hopper, and ACF didn’t build this particular variation for any other Class 1 railroad.

I have a boatload of these in HO scale just waiting for a cement distributor to be built (which must in turn wait until the benchwork for that area is built). But these photos show I can also use them for interchange with the Canton RR.

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