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Hand-switching a hopper car

By Angela Cotey | June 6, 2024

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Employees of New Jersey short line Union Transportation Co. use pinch bars and muscle power to move a car of coal a few feet at New Egypt. As coal is released from the hopper doors it is fed by hand-shoveling to the power-driven conveyor for loading into the tender of the line’s only engine, leased PRR 0-6-0 5244.
Aaron G. Fryer photo

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