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Re: Roundhouse milk car (was Milk car photo)

Roger Hinman <rhinman@...>
 

The Roundhouse milk car is based on the 1928 MDT Pfaudler car.
Drawings for this
car are available througth the NYCHS. I have a couple of the cars but
have never taken the time
to check them against the drawing. Lionel did this car in O scale
prior to Roundhouse and I heard
through rumor that both companies had access to prototype drawings.


Roger Hinman

On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:



Garth

There were 40' wood milk tank cars, e.g. Abbotts (photo RMJ 10/1990)
and GPEX/Pfaudler. Overland imported models of these (calling them
Type A and Type B). I've never seen the new Roundhouse/Athearn car so
I can't say if it's based on a prototype. I think Precision Scale
imported a 40' wood milk car but I have no further info on that one
either. Perhaps Athearn's ancient milk/express reefer was based on
the General American 53' milk tank car (not the same as the more
common 50' express reefer). Overland also imported this car (#3061).

Tim O'Connor

At 7/13/2009 12:42 PM Monday, you wrote:
Tim and friends,

I don't remember ever discussing the Roundhouse/Athearn 40' wood milk
car on this group. This is the recent one they brought out just
before
Roundhouse was taken over a few years back, not the much older 50'
car.
Does this car have an actual prototype?

I have two, which I planned to letter for a real local dairy to run
on
the freelanced Virginia version of my layout. To my eye the casting
was
not bad for mass production, though the brake system is rudimentary
at
best (just the major components unconnected by any piping).

Kind regards,
Garth G. Groff
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