---In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, <claus@...> wrote :

Hi Bob and List Members,

Especially interesting to me is that one of the images is a drawing for a poultry car - see link below.

http://www.hoosiervalley.org/files/cache/3ac3e1f10e6da0f65bca601aea5f5d93_f448.jpg http://www.hoosiervalley.org/files/cache/3ac3e1f10e6da0f65bca601aea5f5d93_f448.jpg

Unfortunately, the resolution is not sufficient to read any of the text. Anyone know where the image might have come from? Is this
diagram from a CBD or TSC that anyone recognizes right off?

Claus Schlund


My money says it IS out of a CBC based upon the way it is presented. BUT, I have a 1919 CBC and it is not in there so I suspect the 1916 or the 1912 issue. The 1919 issue does offer a photo of Live Poultry Transportation Co. #732 on page #348 but it is constructed differently and appears to be a steel underframe car. The truss rods shown clearly in the drawing are not present in the CBC photo.


Cordially, Don Valentine

Didn't Mainline have a wood kit for one of these cars?

Ed Mines

Jim,

First of all, do notice that one can click on the icon of three overlapping boxes in the lower right corner and select “original” size. On my screen that’s a big help.

When I enlarge it, it doesn’t look like bird poop at all. I’m not sure what it is, but it looks pretty easy to duplicate with a few splotches of paint.

Regards,

-Jeff


From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 9:44 PM
To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [STMFC] Freight Car Roofs



Hi,



So I'm sitting here staring - again - at the following image ...



https://donstrack.smugmug.com/UtahRails/Roger-Kingsford-Photos/i-k8WX95c



and (this time) I was focusing (again) on weathering on the car roofs in

the lower left quadrant. And especially on the first car past/above the

one with the farm equipment and the partial roof of the car in the lower

right corner.



Can someone explain the white spots on the first car I mentioned above?

It looks to me like seagull crap. But I'm at a loss to explain -where- the

droppings occurred ... they aren't near enough to the edge to make sense

to me. And there aren't any on the roof walk. And yet they seem to be

"lined up along the edge and pretty much at the same distance from the

edge. How is that possible? (I grew up where seagulls were common

and I've been 'observing' them and their behaviors for a long time.) I

can't even explain them landing on a freight car easily. I guess they

might land on a car spotted on a wharf ... but that far from the edge?



I love the look of the partial car in the bottom right corner. Anyone out

there have methods they think resembles that car's roof? Share? Or

should I just ask this on "Weathering".

- Jim B.

The Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum website has a very interesting article on the history and use of the Live Poultry Transit Company. This article can be found at www.hoosiervalley.org/history/turkeys-and http://www.hoosiervalley.org/history/turkeys-and-trains/. Bob Weston

Subject:
Re: [STMFC] Digest Number 10859
From:
jimbetz <jimbetz@jimbetz.com>
Date:
5/6/2017 6:36 AM

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Jeff,

Perhaps it sat under some sort of 'roof' that dropped something or
other on it. And then it was changed by time ('weathering the
weathering' ... *G*). I agree that one is pretty easy to do. I sort of
agree that it looks less like bird doo when seen in the larger version
but I still feel that is one fairly good/probable explanation.

The one I'm more interested in being able to do - in scale - is the
partial car in the bottom right corner. That splotchy coloring, to
me at least, is difficult to see how to do ... in HO scale.
- Jim

On 5/6/2017 6:15 AM, STMFC@yahoogroups.com wrote:

3b. Re: Freight Car Roofs
Posted by: "Aley, Jeff A"Jeff.A.Aley@intel.com jaley95630
Date: Fri May 5, 2017 10:54 pm ((PDT))

Jim,



First of all, do notice that one can click on the icon of three overlapping boxes in the lower right corner and select “original” size. On my screen that’s a big help.



When I enlarge it, it doesn’t look like bird poop at all. I’m not sure what it is, but it looks pretty easy to duplicate with a few splotches of paint.



Regards,



-Jeff