Domestic coal onesy-twosy handling question

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The H-9 hopper cars as built (actually rebuilt from Class HL hopper cars) did not have snubbed trucks.  This is like an automobile without shock absorbers. I remember hearing N&W Test Engineer Bob Pilcher tell of a derailment that he investigated in which an H-9 bounced off the track at a dip in the track just ahead (or just beyond) a road grade crossing.

Gordon Hamilton
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  N&W H-9s  (50-ton cap'y.) continued in service into the 1970s.   Timetable Special
  Instructions limited trains to 25 mph if hauling a loaded H-9.  Something to do with the
  "rock and roll" nature of the hopper. Consequently, when there were sufficient 70, 85,
  and 100-tonners to handle coal traffic, the H-9s were stored at places like the ex-Virginian
  main line between Virso and Abilene or Island Yard (Lynchburg).  Pirates on the James
  River were known to land on Percival's Island, jack the hoppers, up and remove the brass.

  At the time Louis Newton became Asst. Vice President-Transportation, his replacement
  had come from TTX and before that, Ill Scent.  He noted that IC was hauling loaded H-9s
  at 70 MPH.                                                               Harry Bundy 

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