Re: former VGN cars?
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vapeurchapelon
Hello Dan,
don't know if it was there (but I believe), but I remember the story of using some of these cars for scrap iron movements. Someone said that the cars in that service were WAY overloaded - wich is easy to believe comparing the densitiy of scrap steel and that of coal, for which they originally were designed. Such a car FULLY loaded with scrap steel probabaly weighed in excess of 200 tons, and it has been stated that occasionally a car just broke in half at the short way from scrap loading to plant...
Johannes, sad that none of these cars has been preserved
Gesendet: Freitag, 24. April 2020 um 15:26 Uhr
Von: "Daniel A. Mitchell" <danmitch@...> An: "main@realstmfc.groups.io" <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Betreff: Re: [RealSTMFC] former VGN cars? A few of the big ex VGN “Battleship” gons ended up at Northwestern Steel & Wire in Rockford, IL. They were there in the early 1980’s at least, still showing some VGN lettering, being used for scrap iron movements within the plant, and terribly beat-up. They were being moved about by a bunch of ex GTW 0-8-0 and 2-8-2 steam locos, also in terrible shape.
Dan Mitchell
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