Roanoke Rail walk

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Thu Feb 1 18:58:43 EST 2007


At 05:11 PM 2/1/07, you wrote:

>Those hoppers are VERY old, with the fishbelly sides and clamshell

>doors. I think that clamshells were on their way out by the

>mid-20s. IIRC, from Dow's book, almost all steel hoppers built with

>clamshells were rebuilt with conventional hopper bottoms, losing their

>fishbelly sides in the process, fairly early on.


They're old, but not THAT old. Class H-1, late-'30s second-time rebuilds
of N&W's original steel HM and HP hoppers built circa 1909-1915. They have
flat-bottom doors, not clamshells.

David Thompson



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