Scott,



We posted more pictures of the C&O 86500 ventilated box and rib-sided hopper cars in the C&O HS websit's supplemental images section.  They will be the for a couple more weeks.



We have a 75% complete article on the C&O 86500 and 87000-series ventilated box cars, with a Bob Hundman in the works.  It is primarily held up for lack of in-field images and usage data.  A short article on their "built like a battleship" C&O twin hopper car series was drafted up also a few years ago.  The NN SB engineering folks had developed their own theories on why there were so many center-sill to draft gear failures occuring in first generation steel coal cars.



Al Kresse