Reply to "GGD VGN Battleship Gondola Arrive"

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Scott,

The C&O Historical Society did an extensive article of the C&O gondolas in their September/October 2019 issue of their magazine. Lots of information, data, drawings, and pictures. There is a much better reproduction of the picture of the car that you have on the GGD website. I can read most of the lettering from the copy of the magazine I have although some is still too small to read. The best bet is to obtain a scan of the photo from the C&OHS archives so. The photo number is COHS 51773.

The photo on the GGD website is the car in its original as-built paint scheme. At least some were repainted in 1931 in a simpler scheme. This is shown on photo COHS 32105.

Go to the C&OHS website, go to Search the Archives, type in battleship and the pictures will show up. Unfortunately they are low resolution. To get higher resolution, the pictures have to be ordered from the C&OHS.

Ken

7/15/217:44 AM

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