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These replies are good rules-of-thumb, but you really need to look for pictures of the C&O from your time period - C&O historical society, etc. In the late '60s and early '70s cars over 50 years of age were prohibited in interchange, but older cars were used in captive service. In the '70s PennCentral was running class H21 hoppers built between 1910 and 1920, equipped with Andrews trucks, and ore jennies built in the '60s with andrews trucks reclaimed from scrapped hoppers. They were kept in ore service between Cleveland and Wierton and between Philly and Baltimore. I'm sure C&O had many of its own exceptions. <br /> <br />If you look for Cyclopedias from the '60s or '70s, they are only going to show you what was new at that time - they were 25% information and 75% advertisement, and no one was advertising old equipment.
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