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Re: W&LE gon and great load

Dean Payne
 

Walthers made a half-way decent RTR model of these, but it was lettered for the wrong series, (71000 instead of 70000), and had a wood floor instead of steel. The wire grabs had to be added, I didn't correct the road number or any other details.
The car looks pretty beat up for only being 2 years old! It was a rough life, I'm sure...

Dean Payne

--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <eric@...> wrote:

Eldon,

It looks like the gon has W&LE number 70570. These were built in March and April of 1916 by Standard Steel Car and Pressed Steel Car. This design seems to have been a major influence on the USRA mill gon design. W&LE series 70000-70599 was 597 cars of 46-foot length. 70-ton capacity, all-steel construction, 3-foot interior height, and 12 exterior posts. This car and more of the W&LE 1926 freight car fleet were just reviewed at my blog:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/

The page text for the Critical Past film clip notes these cars were an "extra long railroad car". As the film was shot in 1918, a 46-foot car would be longer than most gondolas of that time.

I've got nothin' on that gun tube.

Eric



Eric Hansmann
Chagrin Falls, Ohio



--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, "Gatwood, Elden J SAD " <elden.j.gatwood@> wrote:


....from Bethlehem in 1918

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675044664_manufacture-of-ordnance_Bethleh
em-Steel-company-plant_freight-train_cannons

So, what do you know about that great W&LE gon? How about that gun tube?

Elden Gatwood
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