N&W Covered Hopper

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At 10:47 AM 1/5/05 -0800, you wrote:

>I believe the HC-1 hopppers were always grey:
>
>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2152.jpeg
>http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1930.jpeg

 For a few years in the mid-late 1950s, N&W painted covered hoppers
black with gray *sides*. Thus, the end lettering was white, but the side
lettering was black.

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2136.jpeg

David Thompson