Late HL hoppers...

[NW Modeling List]

At 04:05 PM 10/10/07, you wrote:

>Please explain further... I see nothing 'suspect' about the image.  Car 

>number is in a legitimate HL series, isn't an H9 rebuild (note the one 

>piece sides... when the fishbelly HLs were rebuilt to H9s, they got 

>two-piece sides... the late HLs that were rebuilt retained their original 

>one-piece sides, and Portsmouth certainly didn't paint any of those in 1952).


  The suspicion is that the company photographer wanted an HL to 
photograph, so somebody went and got the 'HL' stencils and doctored up an 
H-9 on the spot.

David Thompson