NEB&W Guide to Four-Wheel Coal & Ore Jimmies - A-CThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-02-26
All Wood Gons Table of Contents
Less-Than-All-Steel Gons Table of Contents
Gons Table of Contents
Ore Cars Table of Contents
Freight Cars Guide Table of Contents
Rolling Stock Table of Contents
Baltimore & Ohio
- As one of the oldest railroads in America, the B&O started
with basically wagons on iron wheels.
- [The earliest B&O freight cars, 1832 - basically a farm wagon with flanged wheels.]
Beech Creek
- In 1888, the road listed 20 four-wheel "coal" and gons.
Boston & Maine
- According to their diagram, the B&M had 500
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