Roanoke built rolling stock

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At 12:59 AM 3/9/08, you wrote:

>I know over the decades that the shop forces at Roanoke built a variety of 

>freight cars for the N&W, and later hoppers for CR and NS.  Can anyone 

>tell me if they also built freight cars for other roads, say around the 1940s?


Roanoke built some cars for other roads in the 1880s before it became a N&W 
company shop; some gondolas circa 1910 and boxcars ca. 1928 for 
Winston-Salem Southbound; 1000 class H-6 hoppers for Interstate in 1944-45; 
and a batch of H-12s for several other roads in the late '70s.

David Thompson