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| Author: | GTW Dude [ Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:12 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Surviving Battleship Gondolas | ||
Is anyone aware of surviving battleship gondolas like the picture below? I know a few were used in steel mills after being sold off by Class 1’s, but i’m curious if any have survived into preservation or are still out in the wild. Thanks!
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| Author: | John D [ Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas |
I'm pretty sure that one of the Virginian Railway battleship gons survives at the railroad park in Victoria, VA (along with a Virginian caboose): https://victoriava.net/parks-and-recreation The link above states "historical Virginian Railway car, caboose, and equipment.", and somewhere I thought I read that a gon was there. |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas |
Google Street View of the Railroad Park shows a standard, regular-height Virginian-painted gondola on one of the old roundhouse tracks, not a Virginian "bathtub/battleship" gon. |
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| Author: | John D [ Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas |
ADM-cool-understood-thanks for clarifying! |
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| Author: | klmiller611 [ Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas |
The Virginian gondola at Victoria, Va was a standard low-side VGN gon, as reported. It was purchased by Roanoke Chapter NRHS from Norfolk Southern some years back. The Chapter already had another VGN gondola and decided this one would be best served at Victoria, and donated such to them. The "battleship" gondola at Northwestern Steel and Wire in Sterling, IL was in, as expected, horrible condition when the plant closed. I've only seen a photo of it from about 1971 or so. Unfortunately, there was little movement in that era to preserve old freight cars, and even so, it may well have not been in any condition to interchange. I am assuming it was scrapped with the plant. Ken Miller |
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| Author: | David H. Hamley [ Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas |
In the late 1950s the Dietch Co. scrapyard at Sharpsburg, PA had a number of these cars arrive from the VGN. Most were scrapped quickly but a few were used for internal movements of scrap on their extensive rail system. On one occasion such a car was filled nearly level full of lengths of rail. GOK how much that weighed, but in any event it was too much for the wobbly track around the scrapyard. It was later spotted with one truck buried almost completely, surrounded by fractured bits of rail. The car and its contents were cut up where it had landed. |
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| Author: | R. Hahn [ Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:07 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Surviving Battleship Gondolas | ||
klmiller611 wrote: The Virginian gondola at Victoria, Va was a standard low-side VGN gon, as reported. It was purchased by Roanoke Chapter NRHS from Norfolk Southern some years back. The Chapter already had another VGN gondola and decided this one would be best served at Victoria, and donated such to them. The "battleship" gondola at Northwestern Steel and Wire in Sterling, IL was in, as expected, horrible condition when the plant closed. I've only seen a photo of it from about 1971 or so. Unfortunately, there was little movement in that era to preserve old freight cars, and even so, it may well have not been in any condition to interchange. I am assuming it was scrapped with the plant. Ken Miller I found this photo on Flickr of the NSW battleship gon from the 1980's. Definitely would have been more than a bondo job to restore. Roger
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