Re: Re; Pig Iron
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water.kresse@...
I know I asked this question some time back . . . . but was there a guideline for loading materials like pig iron on the floors of a freight cars? I've heard stories from retirees talking about seeing "broken" cars filled with pig-iron where folks got lazy and loaded it more at the center of car at the doorway. It is only common sense to load them concentrated over the bolsters and not to full cap'y. I heard the rule was 80 percent max with a balanced load, but I don't have anything in writing.
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Al Kresse ----- Original Message -----
From: "Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton" <smokeandsteam@...> To: STMFC@... Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:59:01 PM Subject: [STMFC] Re; Pig Iron Several possibilities exist, but none are easy styrene solution for the time frame you have in mind; I assume you’re in HO so here are some possibilities based on my own interests in the area around Birmingham AL Gondolas were typically used for pig ron loading with the pigs tending to be loaded over the bolsters; low sided gons were especially useful. SOU low sided steeel gons are the obvious choice. For the 30s only the Speed witch resin kit is appropriate – the Smoky Mountain kit represents cars as they were rebuilt in the post war period. I have a photo of a SAL composite gon with pig iron and Sunshine do a resin kit of such a beast. I’m not sure that composite construction would have lasted long in this service, but it certainly happened CofG used cut down USRA cars as noted inana earlier response – the problem is that while I have copies of diagrams for these I have never seen a photo ACL didn’t serve Birmingham in its own right until after WW2 but they also had a class of low side steel gons that can be kit bashed from the old ERTL gon Aidrian -- Beer has no effect on concrete, but unless the concrete is specially treated the taste of the beer could be affected. (Military Engineering Vol XIV, Concrete, WO Code No 8626, 1952.) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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