08-22-2010, 02:51 PM
I didn't mean to make a big deal ... I was just sitting here reminiscing as I watched this afternoon's "daily deluge."
The only freight load ever discussed was the bat billets from Worth Bat, up in Honesdale, PA, so the only type of car discussed was a box car. I suppose a justification for a hopper from one of those roads could be devised, but my guess is that if you are a coal hauler yourself, the chances of having a hopper load of coal shipped from a mine served by your road in a foreign road's hopper would not have been an everyday occurrance. Maybe from another road in the vicinity, like Lehigh Valley, or Reading would be conceivable, but those two roads have their closest interchange near the western end of Pennsylvania (I extended my original route map to get me out there for justifyable "beyond the basement" interchange.)
On the other hand, it would be fun to have a car lettered for either of those railroads, so I guess I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to own one ... of nearly any type of car ... I have no stock cars or ore cars. My rolling stock has a decided run-of-the-mill "sameness" about it. Lots more of the same, virtually nothing "different," pretty much on purpose.
The only freight load ever discussed was the bat billets from Worth Bat, up in Honesdale, PA, so the only type of car discussed was a box car. I suppose a justification for a hopper from one of those roads could be devised, but my guess is that if you are a coal hauler yourself, the chances of having a hopper load of coal shipped from a mine served by your road in a foreign road's hopper would not have been an everyday occurrance. Maybe from another road in the vicinity, like Lehigh Valley, or Reading would be conceivable, but those two roads have their closest interchange near the western end of Pennsylvania (I extended my original route map to get me out there for justifyable "beyond the basement" interchange.)
On the other hand, it would be fun to have a car lettered for either of those railroads, so I guess I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to own one ... of nearly any type of car ... I have no stock cars or ore cars. My rolling stock has a decided run-of-the-mill "sameness" about it. Lots more of the same, virtually nothing "different," pretty much on purpose.
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln