John West Wrote:
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> Actually most of that sheet metal work was done
> back in 2000 on that one car (and we spent way too
> much money on it, which is why it looks so nice,
> but that's another story). Our original plans for
> ballasting were changed by differing FRA
> priorities, so the cars sat unused for several
> years. Finally the ballasting was started, the
> rest of the cars got some work, and they did
> yeoman service. I have seen some pix indicated one
> or more of the ex-EBT cars got a major rebuild and
> modification for ballast service. Since the cars
> were built for coal service, I was worried that
> overloading with ballast would kill them fairly
> quickly, but they must be robust cars since they
> seem to have held up reasonably well.
>
> JBWX

Is there any chance that you could provide a Who, What, When, Where, Why kind of explanation for this post?

tks