interesting N&W hopper classes

Sat Jun 7 06:49:56 EDT 2025

Ben

Email me at miller at nwhs.org

I should be able to help you

Best
Ken Miller

> On Jun 7, 2025, at 5:22 AM, NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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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. 
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> An H3 sounds a good candidate.  Am I right in that H2. H2a and H3 all had 5'8" wheelbase trucks ?
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> Cheers, 
> Ben Scanlon
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>   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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> 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 ?
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> > Something notable, but not so rare as to stretch credulity.
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> > regards,
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> > Ben S.
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