The first "steam" For Progress scheme began in 1948 with 15000-series PS-1 box cars and 79000-series 70-ton RB hopper cars being painted that way out of the factory. So the body paint changes in 1949,

C&O had two "modern" series of ventilated box cars. Which series are we talking about? Al Kresse

Guy, Evans Auto-Loader markings coming out of Cleveland Tower should be the same for all AMC lines one would guess . . . C&O, Erie, NKP and PM? Al Kresse . . . in beautiful, sunny Romeo, MI . . . toda

The C&O cars were double-sheathed with only side-stampings showing at the bottom along the sills. Al Kresse

Correction . . . in 1954-61 for the converted coke cars from USRA w/steel sheathing box cars. Al Kresse

The C&O had them with side-assembly kits added and a 9" plate added in end panels to raise their roofs to standard ARR height for the era. They are shown in the new C&O HS C&O Freight Cars 1937-1846 b

The C&O's pre-WW2 "covered hopper cars" are the 1937 and newer 1937 & 1945 C&O Freight Cars books. Cars were converted HMR 1932-1937 and new LO 1937-1938. Al Kresse

The C&O used "roofed-hopper cars" . . . covered regular hopper cars, sometimes with new steeper slope-sheets and hopper-door-bays. Al Kresse

Did they go to the PennCentral or ConRail collection archived by Uncle Sam? Al Kresse

I've seen pix of Glenn Jean & ? gondola cars loaded with coal from the New River initially to Chicago via C&O going into Minneapolis in the wintertime. Al Kresse

When did they close the coal docks at Marquette . . and rip outthe tracks to make it a park? My last picture found was 1908. Now coal just comes into the power plant to make electricity? Al Kresse

After about 1910 slightly less than half of the C&O and N&Ws coal went to Tidewater (Newport News and Norfolk) and the majority went West. Al Kresse

Gary, Ted's version was a copy of a second C&O Freight Department publication made in 1945. A couple of those originals have surfaced recently I believe. Carl Shaver is still Chief C&O FC Mentor. Spre

Gary, Being a supplier of new info to EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Carl Shaver, I would describe the differences relative to the OLD Thru-1937-only book as -- > New sections for cars built 1938-1945 ADDED > Better

Would these cars be present at the Westvaco Paper Pulp Mills in Virginia? Al Kresse

Bob, We could use another C&O Basement Sub-division article . . . say, like how make an ex-SV&E hopper car into a C&O car starting with XYZ model. We've B&O, SV&E and C&O proto-pix to star with somewh

Folks, I would guess it is the same problem as with the C&O Historical Society -- nobody is writing modeling articles to put in the Magazine nor the electronic Newsletter. When a society functions on

Hey Mike, Having four oil companies (West Harding, Whiting, Sinclair and Texas Oil), a refining company (Gulf) and a gasoline service company there in 1948 a few years before the C&O dieselized would

I have the Sinclair Oil Company showing up with storage yard with tanks at the C&O East Lexington, Virginia, yard sketch-map in 1948. Would they have kerosene, diesel and gasoline . . . or just oil. W

Dennis, So the local gas stations could get its gasoline and the farmers their diesel for their tractors the same way. The East Lexington Yard, two miles from Lexington, had four oil or refinery compa