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Re: Kind of interesting CB&Q boxcar.
Charlie Vlk
All- Could the cars have been built for the same type of service (aircraft parts) as the XA-14D raised roof single sheathed 50 ft DD Boxcars rebuilt in 1942 for B-26 Marauder wings and later the B-29 Superfortress fuselage housings applied to 69 FM-14 Flatcars in 1944? Charlie Vlk
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Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 1:50 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Kind of interesting CB&Q boxcar.
Scott
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Scott
Does anybody have any information on this car in the ebay page below? It says it was taken in 1963 but it looks like its been around for a while. Lots of little interesting details on it lime the roof to side transition and side rivit pattern. I wonder if this was a rebuild of a single sheathed car? _._,_._,_
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Re: Piedmont & Northern Boxcar, another candidate for Vulcan ends
Dennis Storzek
As we discussed before, the ends with eight outward ribs were a Murphy product as used on an order of Pere Marquette cars, which in fact this may be because the P&N picked up a lot of second hand equipment.
Dennis Storzek
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Re: Piedmont & Northern Boxcar, another candidate for Vulcan ends
Scott
That car is in really good shape for its age. Looks like fresh paint for sure. Thats an interesting car for sure.
Scott McDonald
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Dollar Tree HO gondola or flat car loads
Steven D Johnson
Group,
I was in the local Dollar Tree store recently and happened to see some “Military Playset” toys. One of the sets included an Army tank and some sort of short cylindrical apparatus mounted on a pedestal, all molded in plastic in “olive drab,” with black-painted “conduits” and silver “control boxes.” I don’t know what these are supposed to represent, if anything, but they look similar to some industrial vessels I found on the internet. The metal and plastic Army tank can be tossed or given to a kid.
With a minimum of work, mainly on the seams on the vessel itself, and repainting, these look to make pretty good HO gondola or flat car loads. I haven’t tried it, but it appears the vessel section could be removed from the pedestal. There is enough space on the underside the pedestal to add weight if desired.
Three of them fit nicely into a Proto 2000 gondola, as you can see here, with room for wood bracing around each unit. These would look great as flat car loads too.
For $6.00 total, I bought enough for two car loads, and may go back for some more. I happened to be near a Dollar Tree store on the other side of Nashville, so went in to see if they had any different sets with other potential loads, but that store didn’t have any of those military sets at all. So all stores apparently don’t carry the same items.
Anyway, I thought some in the group would find this of interest.
Steve Johnson Nashville, TN
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Re: Piedmont & Northern Boxcar, another candidate for Vulcan ends
al_brown03
The P&N ends have eight "outie" ribs on each side, where the W&LE ends have six "innies".
Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.
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Piedmont & Northern Boxcar, another candidate for Vulcan ends
Bill Welch
After posting the info about the High Point Thomasville and Denton from the Prince book, it occurred to me that the Vulcan end car could likely be a Piedmont & Northern boxcar. Now not so sure as it appears rib count may be different. Interesting possibility however.
Bill Welch
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Re: Vulcan Boxcar ends back on Shapeways
Brent Greer
Dr. Dave Campbell has re-released these ends on his Shapeways site:
The Vulcan vertical-rib end as used on the Wheeling 27000's has been added to my available products at Shapeways.
Brent
Dr. J. Brent Greer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of David via Groups.Io <jaydeet2001@...>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 9:49 AM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Boxcar end Vulcan corrugated end, as used on W&LE single-sheathed box cars. See:
https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/topic/25149059 David Thompson
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Re: HO Wine Door Locks
al_brown03
FWIW, Wine door locks are catalogued on the current Westerfield site.
Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.
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Re: HO Wine Door Locks
I concur. I've used the Westerfield wine locks and they look very good. One other possibility might be Arrowhead Models. I don't know whether Blaine offers detail parts yet but I think the H39 hopper cars have that detail. Tim O'
On 3/24/2019 12:44 AM, al_westerfield
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Re: The Keystone Modeler articles on modeling G26 gondolas
Steven D Johnson
Thank you, George, and Mike, for responding so quickly. I’m sure there are others in the group who appreciate these as well.
Steve Johnson
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of George Hollwedel via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 5:03 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] The Keystone Modeler articles on modeling G26 gondolas
Here ya go Steve
Prototype N Scale Models (TM) 512-796-6883 proto.nscale@... http://special.micro-trains.com/george-hollwedel.html
On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:09:15 AM CDT, Steven D Johnson <tenncentralrwy@...> wrote:
Group,
I’ve tried searching on-line for issues 9 and 10 of The Keystone Modeler, which have articles on modeling the G26 gondola using the E&B Valley/Eastern Car Works kit. Does anyone have pdf’s of these articles or links to them on-line?
Many thanks,
Steve Johnson
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Re: HO Wine Door Locks
I used the Westerfield Wine lock castings on the Southern ARA 70 ton 3 bay hoppers and they are very nice. Just say'in Fenton
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:08 AM dahminator68 via Groups.Io <dahminator68=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: HO Wine Door Locks
dahminator68
Hello Al & All: The Wine lock dies were sent to me by Grandt Line before hey shut down. We also received a good supply of Wine Locks (#1171 ) that should hold us until we get someone else to make them.
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Thank you, Andrew Dahm Westerfieldmodels@...
On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 9:44 PM, al_westerfield <westerfieldalfred@...> wrote:
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Re: Ladder material?
vapeurchapelon
Hello Rich,
I remember Taurus Products brass caboose ladders:
https://www.oldpullman.ch/kleinteile-rollmaterial-metall/30256-707-101-ho-caboose-ladders-kit-.html
These certainly look much better than any stamped and bent "ladder strip".
Johannes
Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
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Von: "Rich Gibson via Groups.Io" <richgibson89@...> An: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Betreff: [RealSTMFC] Ladder material? Speaking of ladders....
Does anyone currently manufacture metal ladder material in long pieces that can be cut to desired length? I’ve been scratchbuilding cabooses and have found that I do not have the material to fabricate the ladders that include the rails that go up onto the roof. The individual ladder pieces need to be at least 13’ (HO) long so that the rungs can be removed along a portion and stiles bent into the roof. The only material I’ve found so far is stuff leftover from old wood kits. Ladders by Yarmouth model works are not long enough and Plastruct material does not bend sufficiently. Any ideas welcome. Rich Gibson Golden, CO
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Re: Kind of interesting CB&Q boxcar.
Rich C
There are a few other railroads that had these also, Santa Fe and New York Central to name a couple. Ted Culotta has an excellent kitbashing article in: Rich Christie
On Saturday, March 23, 2019, 7:32:19 AM CDT, mopacfirst <ron.merrick@...> wrote:
Might be possible to combine the end door from a Proto boxcar with a Proto 50' single door body. As a general practice, 50' single door cars with end doors were very rare, and the 1942 build date suggests something specifically built for a defense plant contract. The hoist suggests something heavy like aircraft engines. This car is probably well documented by Burlington specialists, so I hope one enlightens us. Ron Merrick
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Re: Ladders for freight cars
gtws00
Great article Lester. Some good modeling tips.
George Toman
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Re: Ladder material?
You can buy caboose ladders already made with the loop in the top as parts from Athearn.
-- John
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Re: Reservations Needed: PRR X29 Boxcar (Arch Bar Trucks)
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
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Hi Dave,
There may be a typo in your email. I suspect I have
the same photo, but the road number is PRR 570862, not 570826 as you stated in
your email - 6 and 2 got reversed.
To confirm, my image is a broadside of the car,
panted with circle Keystone, with a large gas holder tank in the left
background of the image. And of course archbar trucks as you stated. Is yours
the same?
The information I have on the image indicates the
photo was taken Sep 1932.
Claus Schlund
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Re: HO Wine Door Locks
The dies were cut for me by Grandt Line. I don’’t know if the current owner was able to retrieve them when Grandt went out of business. – Al Westerfield
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From: Bruce Smith
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 4:01 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] HO Wine Door Locks
Mike,
I would go with the Westerfield. They are both made for the H21 and the Westerfields are finer detailed. The Bowser part includes the side of the door as well as the latch.
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of mike turner <yardcoolie1968@...>
Who makes the most accurate HO scale Wine door locks?
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Re: Ladder material?
Ralph W. Brown
Hi Rich,
Oregon Rail Supply used to offer such brass ladder stock. It still
shows up as Item 142 on the order form. See: http://oregonrail.com/order.html.
Pax,
Ralph
Brown
Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com
From: Rich Gibson via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2019 9:18 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: [RealSTMFC] Ladder material? Speaking
of ladders.... Does anyone currently manufacture metal ladder material in long pieces that can be cut to desired length? I’ve been scratchbuilding cabooses and have found that I do not have the material to fabricate the ladders that include the rails that go up onto the roof. The individual ladder pieces need to be at least 13’ (HO) long so that the rungs can be removed along a portion and stiles bent into the roof. The only material I’ve found so far is stuff leftover from old wood kits. Ladders by Yarmouth model works are not long enough and Plastruct material does not bend sufficiently. Any ideas welcome. Rich Gibson Golden, CO
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Re: Ladder material?
Patrick Wade
Walthers used to, and may still, carry punched metal ladder stock that can be cut to any length. And caboose ladders is what I used it for.
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On Mar 23, 2019, at 6:18 PM, Rich Gibson via Groups.Io <richgibson89@...> wrote:
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