N&W Hoppers on the PRR

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No N&W hoppers in photos of PRR drags north of Columbus?  Luck of the draw.

EdK
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> Gotta love Bill Sellers if for no other reason than the rise he gets 

> out N&W fans.  Ed King's response raised a question in my mind.  As 

> Ed points out, westbound coal headed for Lake Erie ports was handed 

> off by N&W to PRR at Columbus.  Why is it that, in looking at 

> pictures from the period, e.g., Don Ball's books, you never see N&W 

> hoppers in coal drags behind Pennsy J1a s when the picture is 

> identified as being shot in northern Ohio?  Maybe the trains pictured 

> just happened to have originated in Pennsylvania coal fields rather 

> than the Pocahontas, but it just seems strange I've never seen a mix 

> of N&W hoppers and PRR steam, or N&W steam and PRR hoppers, for that 

> matter.  I do remember seeing both C&O and N&W hoppers on the 

> Milwaukee Road in Chicago in the 1950 s.

> 

> Thanks,

> 

> Tom Leuthner

> 

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