Re: War Emergency Hoppers
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Ted Culotta <ted@...>
Tony's point is exactly right. When I used the N&W example, I meant it very
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explicitly that the cars went to their offload or transshipment points on foreign rails (after handoff to the foreign road by the N&W) and then went promptly back to the N&W (and, yes, I'm sure that one out of 1,000 was kept by the forwarding road for some purpose, but that's the EXCEPTION). Ted
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From: thompson@signaturepress.com [mailto:thompson@signaturepress.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:43 AM To: STMFC@egroups.com Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: War Emergency Hoppers That coal hoppers went off line is not in dispute. That they did so "in large numbers" is relative. The fact remains that most photos of coal trains in coal country show very high percentages of home road cars. OTOH, research has demonstrated that coal moved via certain routes off-line, e.g. to the Great Lakes for export. But please note that such is NOT the same as "going everywere off line," as we might expect with XM, FM, etc. cars. I think if you want to model off-line coal hoppers, you need documentation of what you choose to model. As someone else has said, the favorite modeler's coal train in which every hopper is a different road is plain silly. The farther we get from that, the better. (All spoken, of course, by someone who has close to zero need to model ANY coal cars of any description.) Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2942 Linden Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 http://www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@signaturepress.com Publishers of books on railroads and on Western history To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: STMFC-unsubscribe@egroups.com
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