Roger A. wrote: > When I lived in Saukville, Wisconsin the longtime owner of the local > lumber/coal yard told me that in the old days they recieved coal in > gondolas and shoveled it by hand into bins. Later on the coal came in > hoppers which would be let to fall on the ground and then one of the two > wheeled conveyors would load it into trucks or bins.
This is reinforced by records of the Toledo & Ohio Central/Kanawah & Michigan/Zanesville & Western and their extensive gondola fleets which were used for coal (I have some postcard photos of gons full of coal at the Toledo, Ohio docks - there are also photos of gons filled with coal in the online Library of Congress archives (I don't have the exact URL handy). After NYC control, hoppers began to be used more extensively (the four NYC panel side hoppers available from SHS were rebuilt from T&OC hoppers). Mark Plank -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
