Late HL hoppers...

[NW Modeling List]

We have been over this before.  There is no such thing as a "late HL 
hopper."  I believe Jim Nichols wrote at great lengths about this hoax which 
resulted from a doctored photo by the wizards in the N&W Photo Lab.  Just 
think what they could do today with digital imaging?

Jim's article/letter/documentation may have appeared in an issue of the 
Arrow within the past several years.

Jim Brewer
Glenwood MD

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Subject: RE: Late HL hoppers...



>

> I think your first assertion may be closer to correct, that the entire HL 

> class was built with the fishbelly side sheets. Like other Company images, 

> the "late production HL" image in Mr. Dow's book is suspect.

> Grant Carpenter

>

>

> Please explain further... I see nothing 'suspect' about the image.  Car 

> number is in a legitimate HL series, isn't an H9 rebuild (note the one 

> piece sides... when the fishbelly HLs were rebuilt to H9s, they got 

> two-piece sides... the late HLs that were rebuilt retained their original 

> one-piece sides, and Portsmouth certainly didn't paint any of those in 

> 1952).

>

> It's not any other earlier two-bay class or rebuild from that classclass 

> (i.e, HA, HB, HBa, HK, H5, H7, H7a, H8) as the side angle is in line with 

> the end angle and both are above the sill... a trait only seen on HLs and 

> H9s.

>

> Many classes underwent revisions to lessen cost and simplify construction 

> or provide alternate construction methods... many time without a new 

> sub-class.

>

> Robb Fisher

> RFDI

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