"Battleships"

[NW Mailing List]

The Bluefield Daily Telegraph articles from 1903 thru 1909 that I been 
posting on the Mailing List make several references to N&W (and once to C&O) 
"battleships" or "battleship" COAL cars, not battleship GONS.  I don't have 
much info on these early cars, but I think the reference was to 50 and 55 
ton steel hopper cars which were being placed in service and which were so 
much larger than the wooden body hopper cars that were being replaced.

Gordon Hamilton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: "'NW Mailing List'" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 10:18 AM
Subject: RE: "Battleships"



> But in 1911 there were no big gons to be referred to by that title.   Jim

> Nichols

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org

> [mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW Mailing List

> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:13 PM

> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

> Subject: Re: "Battleships"

>

> This subject has been discussed before.

>

> "Battleship" is not necessarily a railfan term.

>

> "Battleships" were referred to in N&W Pocahontas Division timetables as

> early as 1911 under the subject  "FIGURES TO BE USED IN COMPUTING TONNAGE

> FOR CARS OF DIFFERENT CAPACITY AND LOADING."

>

> When loaded with coal, "Battleships" were to be computed (estimated) to 

> have

>

> a gross weight of 78 tons per car; when  loaded with coke, at 67 tons per

> car.

>

> Louis Newton

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

> at Hanging Rock, OH. It is of an 0-4-0 #2 named the?

>> "John Kyle." Anyone have any additional in> A friend of mine inquired

> about a photo he has in his collection that is

>> labeled as being formation on this locomotive,

>> dates of operation or owner etc?

>>

>> Thanks,

>> Whit

>>

>>

>>

>> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- 

>>

>>

>>

>> ________________________________________

>> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

>> To change your subscription go to

>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

>> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/

>>

>> ________________________________________

>> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

>> To change your subscription go to

>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

>> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/

>>

>>

>> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----

>>

>>

>> ________________________________________

>> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

>> To change your subscription go to

>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

>> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/

>>

>>

>>

>> -------------- next part --------------

>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

>> URL:

>>

> <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20091130/2470

> 6d40/attachment.html>

>>

>> ------------------------------

>>

>> Message: 4

>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:32:07 -0500

>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Subject: Re: 0-4-0 "John Kyle"

>> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>> Message-ID: <20091201003207.F3P2B.151065.root at cdptpa-web09-z02>

>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

>>

>> There is a siding near Hanging Rock that lead to a coal dealer. They 

>> might

>

>> have had an 0-4-0 to move cars.

>>

>> Larry S.

>> N&W Signal Dept.

>>

>>

>> ------------------------------

>>

>> Message: 5

>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:26:12 -0800 (PST)

>> From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>> Subject: Christiansburg (Cambria) station

>> To: Ned Wright <parkview12004 at yahoo.com>

>> Message-ID: <529925.56998.qm at web30106.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

>>

>> Hello, Ned:

>>

>> Thanks for the article.  I stopped by in 2007 and met Mr. Dorsett.  They

>> constructed an apartment within the east end of the freight room.  He was

>> successful in having the structure added to the National Historic 

>> Register

>

>> even though it is on Norfolk Southern leased land.

>>

>> Happy holidays,

>>

>> Frank

>>

>> ===================================================================

>>

>> A look inside Christiansburg?s Cambria depot

>>

>> The Dorsett family bought the train depot back in 1983, following a

>> 20-year period as a storage facility for local companies 0 Ratings | 104

>> By Chris Whitley | Digital Journalist

>> Published: November 24, 2009

>> Updated: November 25, 2009

>>

>> CHRISTIANSBURG - Originally this area was known as Bangs.  Then sometime

>> in the 1870?s it was changed to Ronald after a Civil War hero from

>> Blacksburg.  They they thought Ronald was not a good name for a town, and

>> named it Cambria.

>>

>> Now a part of Christiansburg, Cambria is the home of a historic train

>> depot.  It was originally built in 1868, then converted from a passenger

>> station to a freight station in 1906.  Nearly all of the freight traffic

>> for Montgomery County and Floyd County came through the depot, according

>> to Megan Dorsett.

>>

>> Her family bought the train depot back in 1983, following a 20-year 

>> period

>

>> as a storage facility for local companies.  The Dorsetts turned the

>> renovation of the depot into a labor of love.

>>

>> ?You do not do it for financial gain.  Nobody who does historical

>> preservation is making a lot of money off it,? Dorsett told me.  ?For my

>> parents, they bought it because my mother believed young parents should 

>> be

>

>> able to bring their kids here and say, this is what a train station 

>> looked

>

>> like,? Dorsett added.

>>

>> The building still maintains much of teh original materials from more 

>> than

>

>> a century ago.  On the wall, you?ll find grafitti left by former workers.

>>

>> Today, the building serves as a work space for Dorsett Publication, a toy

>> store where the money raised helps buy paint for the building, and even a

>> home for Megan.

>>

>> But perhaps its most important purpose, a Cambria Museum.

>>

>> ?A history of a people who live in a place.  Tells the story of how a

>> place developed, on a base level,? Dorsett says.

>>

>> Source:

>>

> http://www2.wsls.com/sls/news/local/new_river_valley/article/a_look_inside_c

> hristiansburg_cambria_depot/64515/

>>

>> As of: December 1, 2009

>>

>>

>> ------------------------------

>>

>> ________________________________________

>> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

>> To change your subscription go to

>> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

>> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

>> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/

>>

>> End of NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1

>> **********************************************

>

>

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

> ----

>

>

>

> No virus found in this incoming message.

> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com

> Version: 8.5.426 / Virus Database: 270.14.87/2536 - Release Date: 11/30/09

> 07:31:00

>

> ________________________________________

> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

> To change your subscription go to

> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/

>

> ________________________________________

> NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org

> To change your subscription go to

> http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list

> Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at

> http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 9.0.709 / Virus Database: 270.14.91/2541 - Release Date: 12/02/09 
14:43:00