help identify some N&W freight cars from 1934

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Hi listers,

I'm trying to develop a picture of 1934 on the Southern Railway's 
Winston-Salem division for a couple of reasons.  1) I have a set of 
conductor's logs that cover all trains on the W-S division for 1934  2) the 
W-S division interchanges with the Atlantic & Yadkin Railway in 1934 and 
that's the A&Y is the short line I model and 3) it's a neat historical 
exercise to understand what's happening on a railroad division in a given 
period so I may end up writing an article about it when I'm done.

One of the things I'm trying to do is to figure out the types of freight 
cars that were identified in the log books.  A good chunk of non-Southern 
cars are N&W which is not surprising.

Would you help me out with some N&W hopper and boxcar identification?

Specifically, the hoppers I've got so far are:
71450, 21944, 9837, and 84035.

A boxcar is #67495.

I've ordered an ORER from 1935 on CDROM from Westerfield so I can get a 
better idea about these era cars, but I'm anxious to learn more.  Any help 
would be appreciated.  BTW, the hoppers were all empties waybilled back to 
the N&W at Winston-Salem (milepost K-29 for those of you who might know the 
Southern's K line from Greensboro to Rural Hall).

Dave
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David Bott			david.m.bott at dartmouth.edu