Who likes paying taxes ? Not me

For the sake of posterity and search strings, the reference should be to CC&O (Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio), not C&O. The 111 gondolas don't seem to have made it onto the Clinchfield roster.

Richard decorated his car for the CRP, a short lived tax evasion scheme (a scheme immortalized in Paul Newman's "Young Philadelphians") -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Mike, Thanks for this info. Fun reading, for certain kinds of people. Ed Edward Sutorik

Twenty plus years after the fact -- I had one of the Precision Scale gons and came up with a photo of it somewhere painted CNJ. There was a Herald King decal set suitable (suitable enough ? I no

Hi List Members, There is a nice view of CRP 89138 65ft steel gon at the link below... https://wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/035945 Click on the image to enlarge it. Enjoy! Claus Schlund

Thanks, Mark. Actually, *most* of the 100 yostuff is far easier to work with than the 50 yo stuff - the older stuffuses linen - the problem there is that the starch comes out. But it canbe ironed.

Bob It's so much fun to work with 100 year old paper. I've found that high humidity helps temporarily get rid of the brittleness in old paper prints. Steamtown uses a large steam box that they have.

 Hi Tony, Ben, Garth, David, and List Members, Thanks for the useful and interesting replies. I think I figured out why the car is stencilled DISCO - see link below...

Only 8 cars in this series remained on 1-1-50. I'd also guess that the trucks had been changed by then. Contrast that number of cars to the 1472 USRA cars in the 15000, 16000 and 17000 number series.

Garth Groff wrote: "The mystery deepens. My October 1958 ORER lists 231 cars in series 8000-8299. Likely the number series was reused for other cars. Maybe. These cars had a 2081 capacity

Nice job, Chuck! That's a great looking model! Elden Gatwood

Tony Thank you. Paul Doggett

Dave Thank you. Paul Doggett England

Dave and Claus, The mystery deepens. My October 1958 ORER lists 231 cars in series 8000-8299. Likely the number series was reused for other cars. Maybe. These cars had a 2081

Chuck That’s really nice. Paul Doggett

The January 1940 ORER shows a series 8000-8099, with a full 100 cars. The inside length is 30'5" and the outside length is 32'3", both characteristic of the Gla design. The 10'2" eaves height and 1732

I would like to see a copy of that article too ! Brent ________________________________ Dr. J. Brent Greer

I scanned a few more tubes - these are a tad earlier - 1904- 1919 (retracings after 1916). I bring this up for a number of reasons. The thread related to cars of 100,000 lbs capacity - of course,

Hi List Members, The Montour twin hopper M 8014 shown closest to the camera in the image linked below has a more-than-slight resemblance to a PRR class GLa hopper - especially the end construction.