Re: Reading Box Car
George Losse
Al,
The Reading had 2000 XMp class boxcars built in four series AC&F. 11550-12349, 800 cars built 1910 12350-12999, 650 cars built 1912-1913 13000-13199, 200 cars built 1910 13200-13549, 350 cars built 1913 The ORER for Jan 1952 shows 65 in service. Some of these cars were converted to covered hopper cars class XMph with internal slope sheets, roof hatches, boarded over door openings and hopper bottoms. They were used in Bean service between Philadelphia and Hershey, PA. George Losse _____ From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of al_brown03 Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:00 AM To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Subject: [STMFC] Re: Reading Box Car Wow, what a beauty! Check out the fishbelly underframe, unusual arch bar trucks, and Youngstown replacement door. 36' box, RDG class XMp, built 1912-1913. ORER series is 11550-13549, 987 cars 1/43, 33 cars 1/53. Builder's photo: Kaminski, "AC&F", p 163 (the end straps were original equipment, as were those trucks); order said to be 1000 cars, so the ORER may have combined orders into one series. Two photos of a covered-hopper conversion (you 'eard!): Bossler, "RDG Color Guide", p 63. End-on in-service shot: Pietrak, "Coudersport & Port Allegancy and New York & Pennsylvania", p 67. If I were building that, I might kitbash it from a Roundhouse old-timer box body, and a shortened Accurail reefer underframe. Not sure what to do about the trucks, might cheat and give it more modern ones. (The covered hoppers mentioned above have AAR cast trucks.) Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla. --- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com <mailto:STMFC%40yahoogroups.com> , "railfan" <rdglines@...> wrote: anyone give any info on it? And are there any models in HO scale that would be close to modeling it? <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390316223052> &item=390316223052
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