NEB&W Guide to D&H Gondola Cars

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Last Update: 2008-11-17

• Back in the Civil War, the D&H was using four-wheel "jimmies" (a corruption of "engine" from the original meaning of the word for a clever contraption - also giving us "spinning jenny" and "cotton gin").
  • [Photo from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  In 1888, there were 449 "coal" cars, described as four wheel, nos. 1-449. No other info was given, but they were only rated at 6 tons, so I suspect these are the cars. There were no four wheel cars listed in 1900.

• By the late 1870's, the cars had gotten

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