This is more of a question than an answer. Didn't a couple of New England roads have coal import port facilities? (Example, BAR at Searsport) This would have allowed coal originating on roads such

used hoppers to move limestone to steel mills? Yes. B&O moved a large amount of limestone and dolomite to the Ohio Valley from eastern West Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Blast

Ed, That would not necessarily be unusal.? The antracite roads (RDG, LV, CNJ, CRP, D&H, LNE) seem to have indiscrinantely loaded each others cars.? They even loaded PRR cars.? They were loosely

Joel All of them DELIVERED home heating coal. Coal ORIGINATED outside New England -- in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, etc. So most of the coal would arrive in

Ed, Thanks for the information. After my post, I went back and took a look in the earlier volume at the Frisco car, and it is apparent that there is a Z-section member which runs the length of the

There are a couple of books of NKP publicity photos with many of the photos taken in the steam era. In the text of onoe of these books it says that most coal on the NKP came from the C&O (at one time

Posted by: "Tim O'Connor" >> Malcolm Laughlin wrote: "You would never see a foreign hopper being loaded on the Chessie's Road, p. 171... what's that under the tipple? Hmmmmm. Appears to be a

Joel, You may try the New haven list for help with this one. The NH had coal docks on the east coast to transfer to cars for delivery. One I recall was in New Bedford, MA. Also, there

There was also a lot of limestone moved by the B&O from Fairport Harbor, Ohio to............. Chuck Hladik ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

ANYONE CLEAR THIS UP: 1940'S NEW ENGLAND....WHICH RAILROADS WOULD HAVE HAULED HOME HEATING COAL TO DEALERS IN NEW ENGLAND?SEEN MANY A PHOTO WITH A B&O(LARGE B&O) HOPPER IN A LOCAL ''POCKET''WHO ELSE

Didn't someone just say that when talking about railroads never say "never" and always avoid "always"? regards, Andy Miller

Just for the record, there were carmer uncoupling levers still in use in the mid to late 1970's, I pull a few of those pins while switching. Jeff

Mike Brock wrote And this is in fact clearly documented in the charts I mentioned from "Chessie's Road" (the charts are from the C&O HS collection) and in fact they show how many tons were turned

Chessie's Road, p. 171... what's that under the tipple? Hmmmmm. Appears to be a VIRGINIAN hopper car. Yep. By the way, pp.140-141 have wonderful traffic charts showing coal flows by tonnage and

Hello All, How would these cars be unloaded? It seems to me that they would fill with Carbon Dioxide, and thus you could not go into one of them. (And live.) Peter J.

Being used as insulated box cars? Bill Vaughn --- branchline@... wrote: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get

Malcolm Laughlin writes: "You would never see a foreign hopper being loaded on the C&O or N&W." Perhaps so. We seem to have fewer photos at the actual mines compared to mainline traffic. However,

Except for an experimental car built by ACF, all of the DICX cars were MDT standard refrigerator cars modified for this service by building insert kits and in many cases had special door assemblies

Posted by: "Mike Brock" Bruce, I didn't express myself well. What I meant to say was that Appalachian RRs including Pennsy, C&O, B&O, and N&W would commonly have hoppers of these same RRs in

Berwind hoppers appeared ,out of proportion,on the Rutland for interchange with the CV.Was there anything special about the coal that they carried?.Does anyone know where they went on the CV? Armand