Hopper - Open Top
PRR #150703
55-Ton 2-Bay USRA Outside Braced Hopper - Class GLc GLca - Between 1941 and January 1946, cars were fitted with a power hand brake and a structural top chord, resulting in reclassification to GLCA. They were originally built by the thousands to standardized plans beginning during WWI and shortly after and lasting into the 1960s. Between July 1898 and January 1904, a total of 20,138 cars of this basic type were constructed by Schoen Pressed Steel Car Co., Pressed Steel Car Co., and American Car & Foundry. Many identical cars were built for many coal companies and were later acquired by the PRR.