NW-Modeling-List Digest, Vol 273, Issue 5 /interesting N&W hopper classes

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 Dear Jim, Thank you.  Unfortunately the only copy of Dow available is $300, well beyond my means. I'll continue to check, but the price is even higher than the last time I looked. I don't doubt th book is worth it. 
An H3 sounds a good candidate.  Am I right in that H2. H2a and H3 all had 5'8" wheelbase trucks ?
Cheers, Ben Scanlon
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Today's Topics:

  1. interesting N&W hopper classes that made it to late 1967 -
      early 1968 (NW Modeling List)
  2. Re: interesting N&W hopper classes that made it to late 1967
      - early 1968 (NW Modeling List)


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If one threw one's modeling era back to the era mentioned, what would be an interesting 2 or 3 bay N&W hopper class that had a lot of character, eg, signs of multiple rebuilding etc, and was still being interchanged, into the early PC era ??
Something notable, but not so rare as to stretch credulity.
regards,?
Ben S.?
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Subject: Re: interesting N&W hopper classes that made it to late 1967
    - early 1968
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Ben S.,
I would suggest you acquire a copy of N&W Coal Cars by Dow.  In it, on
pages 216-7, he shows that hopper all classes HU/3 and following made it
into 1968 with the exceptions of HV and HA/5.  Some of these, I am certain,
only survived in MoW service would not be interchanged.  In the chapters on
specific car classes Dow gives more information of numbers of cars in
service in particular years.  For example, one H3 was in service until
1969, plenty of rebuild character there.
Jim Cochran

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> If one threw one's modeling era back to the era mentioned, what would be
> an interesting 2 or 3 bay N&W hopper class that had a lot of character, eg,
> signs of multiple rebuilding etc, and was still being interchanged, into
> the early PC era ?
>
> Something notable, but not so rare as to stretch credulity.
>
> regards,
>
> Ben S.
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