Virginian hoppers

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Well, I sort of should have asked that any corrections
be sent to me so I could compile them.  It probably
would have helped if I would have spelled my E address
properly.

bongiovanni1 at hotmail.com

Now that said, I certainly can't quibble with anything
you're saying Dave, as I don't have good info prior to
1948.  And Westerfield does make the 70-ton hopper in
both clamshell and sawtooth versions; I didn't have
anything showing that the Virginian versions were
built in the clamshell version also [I think
Westerfield markets it for C&O and NYC ??]  Now that
said, the 1948 diagram book still shows the H-11 in
the 4 rib 5 panel configuration.  So is there better
info out there?

Frank Bongiovanni

--- nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> 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

> 

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