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From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
lnbill
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:04 PM
To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fwd: [STMFC] Re: Tennessee Central-Rebuilt USRA 3-Bay Hoppers.

Hopefully Rich Yoder is monitoring this list and will see this news, He was
particuarly interested in the cars as they appeared on the TC and would like
to know how to get a copy of the photo referred to here am sure.

Bill Welch

--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, "James F. Brewer" <jfbrewer@...> wrote:

I posted this to the NWHS list; here is the only response.



Jim Brewer

Glenwood MD


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From: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@...>
To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 11:25:54 PM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Tennessee Central-Rebuilt USRA 3-Bay Hoppers.


I can't claim to be a guru by any stretch of the imagination, but...these

are the VGN H-5 70 ton cars built to a USRA/ARA (I get confused)design. 
The original design was used by NYC, C&O, and VGN, and had two sawtooth
discharge chutes and a center clamshell.  All three railroads rebuilt these
cars into the three sawtooth chute version.  I believe that C&O's were
rebuilt with peaked or arch ends.  (Al; help!!).  Other than the High
Capacity Gons, these were the largest coal carrying cars on the VGN until
the H-14 70ton triples came in the mid fifties.  There were two of them
left on the Virginian at the time of the N&W merger(per Dow).  When I did
the Virginian Coal Cars clinic I put out a request for any pix of these in
Virginian livery as rebuilt.  A pic of one of the cars on the TC is the
only one that has surfaced to far. 

There is a pretty good picture of one of these in the as built clamshell

version in Hundman's article on the High Capacity gons in one of the last
issues of Mainline Modeler.

With some work the Westerfield NYC (PMckY??)models of either version can

be made into a VGN model. 

Correction or supplementation of the above is welcome, as always.

Frank Bongiovanni


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM, NW Mailing List < nw-mailing-list@... >

wrote:

Any VGN gurus have any info on these cars to share?



Jim Brewer

Glenwood MD

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I will chime in with information that Rich shared with me about these cars

over the weekend. The cars in question were USRA 3-bay hoppers built for the
Virginian (Who Knew?) who sold them to Ortner rather than rebuild them when
the time came. So the cars in question are rebuilt USRA 3-Bay hoppers owned
second hand by the TC, and probably unknown to most of us. Let the detective
work begin.

Bill Welch

--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com , "Richard Yoder" <wrote:

Thank you Mitch.
I would like to hear from him.
I'm sure there are photos somewhere of the car as purchased from Ortner.

Rich
 

From: Richard Yoder

Subject: [STMFC] Tennessee Central
To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 4:57 PM


I'm looking for someone that may have photos from the Tennessee Central
railroad.
If you know of someone please contact me.
Sincerely, Rich Yoder



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