This has to be it--you call it correct. DJE
----- Original Message -----
From: raisinone
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 5:27 PM
Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: coal piers Philadelphia
--- In [email protected], "David Engle" <rirocket@...> wrote:
>
> How about hopper cars with 6-wheel "Buckeye" trucks--seems like I saw
something like that decades ago. DJE
>
>
Dave:
Are you thinking of the Virginian "Battleship" gons? They were rated at 120
tons of coal and ran on 6-wheel Buckeye trucks. First built around WWI. C&O and
N&W also had versions.
Jim Kindraka
