N&W Hoppers on the PRR

[nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org]

Gotta love Bill Sellers if for no other reason than the rise he gets 
out N&W fans.  Ed King's response raised a question in my mind.  As 
Ed points out, westbound coal headed for Lake Erie ports was handed 
off by N&W to PRR at Columbus.  Why is it that, in looking at 
pictures from the period, e.g., Don Ball's books, you never see N&W 
hoppers in coal drags behind Pennsy J1a s when the picture is 
identified as being shot in northern Ohio?  Maybe the trains pictured 
just happened to have originated in Pennsylvania coal fields rather 
than the Pocahontas, but it just seems strange I've never seen a mix 
of N&W hoppers and PRR steam, or N&W steam and PRR hoppers, for that 
matter.  I do remember seeing both C&O and N&W hoppers on the 
Milwaukee Road in Chicago in the 1950 s.

Thanks,

Tom Leuthner