VGN hoppers/additional comments

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At 07:15 PM 10/12/06, you wrote:


>H-2 Cars

>These were all off the roster by 1922 as sold, to whom

>I don't know

>and can find no specific record of such


  Reportedly they went to GB&W, but a 1920s photo of a GB&W car looked to 
me like an ex-N&W car rather than VGN.


>Gons next??


Gons are easy. G-1 in two batches from Pressed Steel Car in 1909-10, then 
G-2 from SSC in 1914 (and two batches of 100 clones each for the 
not-quite-apocryphal Kanawha Glen Jean & Eastern in 1917 and 1925), then 
four battleship gon prototypes in 1917 from PSC (1st G-3 50000), CSC (1st 
G-4 50001), SSC (1st G-5 50002), and VB&I (1st G-6 50003). Those were 
reclassed to G-50000-1 through 4 once the production G-3s and G-4s arrived 
from PSC in 1920-24. Next up the G-5 (N&W G-1 clones) in 1942, and the G-6 
in 1949.

David Thompson