Re: Tennessee Central-Rebuilt USRA 3-Bay Hoppers.
Good morning all.
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Thank you for the information that you were able to gather. Unfortunately I still could really use a photo or two of the Tennessee Central cars. Is there any known group out there that covers That covers the Tennessee Central RR? Sincerely, Rich Yoder
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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: 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. version in Hundman's article on the High Capacity gons in one of the last issues of Mainline Modeler. be made into a VGN model. wrote: 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.
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