New York Central (Black) - Road #: 832051 - 8-Panel 2-Bay Hopper
In the mid-60s, New York Central's massive Despatch Shops greatly increased the pace of rebuilding 2-bay hoppers into thousands of new 8-panel cars. During this period, NYC preferred to place the reporting marks and road number toward the right end of the hopper side, a practice often (but not always) used on NYC boxcars in the same era. Despatch Shops equipped these cars with a new type of centerplate lubricator (the centerplate is the disc on the body bolster that makes contact with the truck bolster) and stenciled instructions to contact the company Chief Engineer in New York City if a truck is removed. This is the paragraph below the triangular paint shop mark and rebuild date. Although NYC adopted the cigar band logo seven years earlier, they continued to apply the old “gothic oval” logo on most hopper cars until the Penn Central merger.