Virginian hoppers

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At 12:49 PM 9/4/06, you wrote:


>This is still a work in progress.  Please feel free to

>provide corrections and/or constructive criticism. Any

>errors are probably my own; for a change there's very

>little ego tied up in this.


  Just a few things off the top of my head:

*H-11 were rebuilt with conventional 7-rib sides circa 1942 (this is 
somewhere in the AFE listings)
*the Athearn ribside twin is accidentally the Unitcast ribside twin which 
was the basis for the Virginian H-8 (and the postwar H-12 and H-13 without 
the cast parts)
*H-7 were 'early standard' hoppers, probably piggybacked on a B&O N12 order
*there is a mysterious 'BSPX' note lurking in the 1948 diagram book, 
probably Koppers USRA twins leased to VGN for a few years in the late 1920s
*H-5 were built with a center clamshell hopper
*H-1 were clones of C&O's 40-ton high-side wood hoppers, built for 
Deepwater by AC&F(?)
*H-2 were clones of N&W's 50-ton Seley composite hoppers, built for 
Deepwater by WSC&F in 1906

David Thompson