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Steve Wagner wrote:Guilford took quite a few of these cars away from the D&H before letting it go bankrupt. It's quite unusual to see one with B&M markings; all or nearly all I've seen first hand have similarly crude MEC markings. The car in the photos you posted seems never to have lost its original yellow paint; it's just covered over with a lot of crud. As usual, the original color shows most clearly on the outermost surface of the ribs (true also for the big 4750 cu. ft. ribbed three-bay covered hoppers Pullman-Standard built for the D&H in 1974, many of which still have their original bright red paint, covered with a lot of dirt except on the ribs).
Engineer Spike wrote:The two bay cars posted above were often used by Guilford, on the Waterbury branch. At first, they were still lettered for D&H. After D&H was placed into bankruptcy, they were relettered with B&M reporting marks.
In Plainville was a traprock quarry. They used to spot about 5-7 car cuts. This stone was shipped to Waterbury, to an asphalt plant. The plant was south of the yard, on the old Highland, which had run towards Danbury.
Mem-160 wrote:How did the D&H owe debt to MEC & B&M? I know the MEC also ended up with a bunch of the pulpwood cars and the U23Bs
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