<div dir="ltr">Ben S.,<div>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.</div><div>Jim Cochran</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List <<a href="mailto:nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org">nw-modeling-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:garamond,"new york",times,serif;font-size:24px"><div dir="ltr">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 ? </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Something notable, but not so rare as to stretch credulity.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">regards, </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ben S. </div></div></div>________________________________________<br>
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