Re: Red Caboose Gen. Ser. SS Gondola
barrybennetttoo <Barrybennetttoo@...>
Volume One of the Morning Sun 'Sp in Color' series has a Dick Kuelbs photo
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on page 99 of GS gon # 361415 clearly labelled 'Do not load scrap or logs' filled to the gunnells with steel scrap. Date of photo is Sept 16 1960, location Mojave. It is probably heading for steelworks in Ca, but it may give a tenuous reason for it to travel to the north east with similar loading. Barry Bennett Coventry, England.
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From: Mark Morgan Date: 02/28/10 03:21:19 To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Red Caboose Gen. Ser. SS Gondola Thank You for the reply Mr. Hendrickson. Alas another redo:-) Mark Morgan PS espee it will be! --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> wrote: From: Richard Hendrickson <rhendrickson@...> Subject: Re: [STMFC] Red Caboose Gen. Ser. SS Gondola To: STMFC@... Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:23 PM On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:44 PM, bnonut wrote: I purchased a Red Caboose General Service steel sided gondola kit. The car is Milwaukee #93143. Would this be correct?No. While MILW 93143 was a 41'6" steel GS gondola, its drop doors were operated by individual Wine latches, not the Enterprise system the model represents, which was quite different both in principle and in appearance. The instructions mention a Southern Pacific version and Union Pacific.The model accurately represents the SP cars and is close to correct as well for the postwar UP cars and some Illinois Central cars built in 1940 (though those had early style Dreadnaught ends, rather than the model's improved Dreadnaught ends). Offhand, I can't think of cars owned by any other RRs that the model is correct for. Lots of other RRs had steel GWS gondolas, but they had had different door operating mechanisms. SP and UP general service gondolas weren't likely to have strayed off- line as far as the B&O very often, but the whole point of the GS design was that almost anything could be loaded into them, and the SP sometimes used them to ship lumber, bridge timbers, and the like. Champ had an excellent set of Signature Line decals for these cars, if it's still available. Richard Hendrickson
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