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Re: Gulf tank cars
Dave Parker
Claus:
That is a great image -- nice catch! Those are both 12.5 kgal cars, something that was not that common in 1920s. If the domes look a bit large, they are -- 535 gallons! Wonderful Gulf paint scheme, a variant on the same layout seen on black cars at about the same time. Gulf had ~2800 cars with GRCX reporting marks in 1925, but this number had diminished to ~1600 by the mid-1930s. I have seen some other evidence of GATX cars under lease to Gulf, so now I am wondering if there was sale and lease-back arrangement similar to what Texaco did. Thanks for posting. Dave Parker Riverside, CA
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Re: Gulf tank cars
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi List Members,
With respect to GULF tank cars and dealerships,
perhaps this image will be of interest...
Claus Schlund
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Re: Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Bill Welch
Personally I think the wheel base of the Accurail truck is too long for most boxcars, same for their Andrews truck.
Bill Welch
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Re: Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Ted Culotta
I wouldn’t use those today... much has changed in the world of trucks since then. Sigh... we have even seen the much needed Barber S-1 produced by Rapido come and go (without this person buying nearly enough.) Brian, you retired one truck too soon!
Bob cited the far better Tahoe option. Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media
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Re: Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Paul Bizier
Thanks to Ben and Robert for the help. I think I've got a pair of the Tahoe trucks in parts box, if not I know where to get them.
Paul Bizier Modeling the SAL in 1950
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Re: Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Robert Heninger
The Accurail truck isn't a bad choice, as it represents the ARA cast steel trucks these cars were equipped with. However, I believe the Tahoe "Buckeye" ARA trucks have better detail, including brake beams, and are nearly identical to the trucks the GN used on the prototype cars.
Regards, Robert D. Heninger Minot, ND
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Re: Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Benjamin Hom
Paul Bizier asked:
"Am working on my backlog of kits - just finishing a Seaboard V-10 vent box, which assuming I can get it painted, will be coming to Cocoa. Next up is an old Sunshine kit for the GN's 1937 tongue and groove wood boxcars... Simple question - can someone point me to the right HO scale trucks for this car?" Ted Culotta used Accurail "Bettendorf:" trucks on the models featured in his Essential Freight Cars installment on the GN cars in the May 2003 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. Ben Hom
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Great Northern 1937 Boxcar - Trucks?
Paul Bizier
Am working on my backlog of kits - just finishing a Seaboard V-10 vent box, which assuming I can get it painted, will be coming to Cocoa. Next up is an old Sunshine kit for the GN's 1937 tongue and groove wood boxcars... Simple question - can someone point me to the right HO scale trucks for this car?
Thanks in advance, Paul Bizier
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Re: Stillwell Oyster Car
Jack Mullen
"...a nice article about it which gives the date of a wreck in which one of the cars was destroyed…"
Actually, the wrecks mentioned were decades before the introduction of the Stillwell car, so the oyster cars that were destroyed were some of the unsuitable predecessors mentioned. They may even have simply been express cars carrying oysters in barrels. Jack Mullen
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Re: Athearn Blue Box Insulated Tank Car
Good references. Thanks Ben.
Brent Greer asked: --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: Stillwell Oyster Car
Charlie Vlk
All- Sometimes I wonder…… ……you are on your computer, posting a question…… ….the first thing that comes up if you do a Google search for “Stillwell Oyster Car” is a nice article about it which gives the date of a wreck in which one of the cars was destroyed….. http://www.pullman-museum.org/theCompany/stillwell.html
Charlie Vlk
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Re: Multiple Ice Hatches?
Andy Brusgard <ajb1102@...>
So much and yet so little.
Roof does not appeared to be as pitched as other cars. A plank between hatches note shadow line. Car #1810 - Partial? On the closer car, underside detail on hatch. Andy Brusgard NMRA # 14375 WWW.ModelEngineers.org
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Re: Stillwell Oyster Car
Stic Harris
Til what date did these interesting cars roam the tracks? Thanks, Stic Harris
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:13 PM earlyrail <cascaderail@...> wrote:
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- Stic
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Re: Gulf tank cars
Garth Groff <sarahsan@...>
Brent,
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Actually there is something that can be done with the Athearn car. It is a fair representation of CGTX 55201-55399 used to carry chlorine, as shown in the 1953 CAR BUILDER'S CYCLOPEDIA. No less than our own Richard Hendrickson built one of these and it can be found on page 47 of the November 1993 RAILMODEL JOURNAL. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🏴
On 11/21/18 11:50 AM, Brent Greer
wrote:
Please forgive the obvious ignorance (I have all the books, but not yet the time to properly digest them), but what of the Athearn blue box insulated tank car kit? Is it correct for anything as is? What, if any, good bashes could be made from that tank?
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Re: Stillwell Oyster Car
earlyrail
Virginia Foundry & Model Works did this car a few years ago in resin. Now out of production. Maybe ask on the Earlyrail group if someone wants to part with one. That is where they were advertised. Howard Garner
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Re: Athearn Blue Box Insulated Tank Car (was Re: [RealSTMFC] Gulf tank cars)
Brent Greer
Thanks Ben !
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Brent ________________________________ Dr. J. Brent Greer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:02:47 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Athearn Blue Box Insulated Tank Car (was Re: [RealSTMFC] Gulf tank cars) Brent Greer asked:
"Please forgive the obvious ignorance (I have all the books, but not yet the time to properly digest them), but what of the Athearn blue box insulated tank car kit? Is it correct for anything as is?"
No. Biggest detractors are the grossly oversized valve bonnet and platform.
"What, if any, good bashes could be made from that tank?"
Tony Thompson has a couple at his blog:
Ben Hom
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Athearn Blue Box Insulated Tank Car (was Re: [RealSTMFC] Gulf tank cars)
Benjamin Hom
Brent Greer asked: "Please forgive the obvious ignorance (I have all the books, but not yet the time to properly digest them), but what of the Athearn blue box insulated tank car kit? Is it correct for anything as is?" No. Biggest detractors are the grossly oversized valve bonnet and platform. "What, if any, good bashes could be made from that tank?" Tony Thompson has a couple at his blog: Ben Hom
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Re: Gulf tank cars
Brent Greer
Please forgive the obvious ignorance (I have all the books, but not yet the time to properly digest them), but what of the Athearn blue box insulated tank car kit? Is it correct for anything as is? What, if any, good bashes could be made from that tank?
Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Brent ________________________________ Dr. J. Brent Greer
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Re: Gulf tank cars
Mark Fedderson did a beautiful kitbash of an 8000 gallon UTLX
car based on a Richard Hendrickson photo. I took the attached picture of
it at the Naperville Sunshine meet more than 10 years ago.
I thought that there might be a Mainline Modeler
article about it, but it does not show up in the MR/Trains
Index.
This car is somewhat problematic in that it represents a batch
of 500 cars that were originally built as 6500 gallon cars in 1916/17 and later
had their tanks expanded to 8000 gallons in 1930. I think that the below
photo has been shared on this list before, from the Library of
Congress.
By far the most common UTLX steam era tank car was a 10,000
gallon X-3 design, done by Sunshine and, more recently, Resin Car Works.
Eight thousand gallon X-3's came in two distinctly different tank
configurations. The longer, skinnier tanks would be similar in appearance
to the Intermountain 8000 gallon tank and rode on the same X-3 underframe as the
10,000 gallon cars. 575 cars were built by ACF and GAT in 1927 numbered
into the UTLX 22500 - 22874 and PX 2750 - 2849. In about 1937, ACF built
some 800 cars, but this time, the underframes were common with 2000 sixty five
hundred gallon cars built at the same time. This resulted in a
shorter, fatter tank more like the P2K Type 21 tank. These 8000
gallon cars were numbered UTLX 17000 - 17799.
The Tichy underframe has some similarities to the UTLX
X-3 design, but will require work to be more prototypical. In Mark
Fedderson's model, based on the early 6500 gallon car, he had to create the
raked end sill visible in the photo that was characteristic of the early
design. The USRA underframe has two center anchors bracketing the bottom
tank outlet through the frame. The X-3 design allowed the outlet to
pass through the single anchor. The tank support brackets on the bolsters
were also unique to the X-3 design.
Sometimes, I think that there could be a niche market for just
UTLX X-3 underframe components. But I might be a bit
biased.
The only MM article on kitbashing a UTLX tank car was in May
1992 by Keith Jordan, but he created an ACF Type 21 ten thousand gallon car from
the Tichy components with a lot of work on the underframe. That project
was supplanted by the P2K 10000 gallon tank
model.
Again, probably TMI. But there is a book
...
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ray Thibaut Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 6:44 AM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Gulf tank cars Has anyone written an article on how to build a 8k gallon UTLX X-3 tank car
using parts of the Gould/ Tichy tank car kit?
Ray Thibaut
567-674-9477
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Re: Stillwell Oyster Car
Jon Miller <atsfus@...>
On 11/21/2018 5:27 AM, Lester Breuer
wrote:
Has anyone built one or have information regarding the car? Red Ball made a kit of this car way way back. Search; red ball
stillwell oyster car -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User SPROG User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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