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Re: Monon
Agree completely...
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Opinions are interesting, but some normative documentation is needed. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------
At 08:24 AM 8/5/2019, Tim O'Connor wrote:
Someone needs to cite a painting specification diagram or document. There
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Re: Monon
Someone needs to cite a painting specification diagram or document. There
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is no other way to avoid the "take your best shot" approach. Someone mentioned "artificial aluminum" - If you've ever seen a UPS trailer, then you know that color. That is NOT the color applied to Southern diesels, nor to Monon box cars. Tim O'Connor
On 8/5/2019 11:11 AM, Richard Brennan wrote:
At 09:19 AM 8/3/2019, william darnaby wrote:If you mean "The Hoosier Line" on the light grey...yes it was gray... band across the top of boxcars, that would be 1952.Ok I'll bite: --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*
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Re: Monon
At 09:19 AM 8/3/2019, william darnaby wrote:
If you mean "The Hoosier Line" on the light grey...yes it was gray... band across the top of boxcars, that would be 1952.Ok I'll bite: Was the band with "The Hoosier Line" -ALWAYS- light grey..? ...or did some re-paints get done in white? ...and just how light was the 'light' grey? i.e. one drop of grey in a bottle of white??? In several color photos from the late 1950s... both the band and the lettering seem to have weathered-out to nearly the same shade. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------
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Re: Monon
G.J. Irwin
The Monon Historical Society uses "The Caboose" train store for its sales now...
https://mycaboose.com/lists?society_id=1 While they have a nice selection of HO Scale items and publications, the "Merchandise Service" boxcar isn't among them. The MRH-TS also did the same car in N Scale from Micro-Trains and I'm still kicking myself for missing it. Cheers, George Irwin
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Nuckolls
Steve SANDIFER
Thanks for all of the good info.
J. Stephen Sandifer
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Updated 941st Field Artillery Equipment move in 1943
John Barry
Thanks to input from a couple folks, I corrected an error in my original post and have added a car I missed and the vehicle registration numbers to the spreadsheet and included some limited modelling ideas in the updated post. You can download the updated version from the same link in the original post. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736
On Thursday, August 1, 2019, 08:34:08 PM EDT, John Barry <northbaylines@...> wrote:
In the fall of 1943, the 941st Field Artillery deployed from Camp Polk LA to the Desert Training Center at Freda CA on Santa Fe's Parker Branch. I found a memorandum copy of the Government Bill of Lading in the National Archives and have written a short blog post that includes images of the seven page GBL and a link to a spread sheet with the car numbers and loads. Not quite over Cajon, but a typical artillery unit move for 1943. The personnel would have gone in a separate Passenger MAIN train. John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736
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Re: Metal Wheels Reboxx
As discussed in July of last year. Dr Denny Anspach posted the update below
Snip The owner of Reboxx is a personal (beyond modeling) friend, and he has asked me to report that at the moment Reboxx is in an interim quiet period, and that it is NOT going out of business. The family member at the business end of the phone is now out of state. Also at the moment, they are completely out of 33” wheel sets with 1.020, 1.025, and 1.030 axle lengths with no known date for replacement. Brian J Carlson.
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Re: Metal Wheels Reboxx
Pete Steinmetz
Reboxx web site is up, but in looking at their dealer page, it has not been updated in years. Very old information. Did you try to contact them? There is a phone number and E Mail on their order page. Pete Steinmetz
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Re: Monon
william darnaby
The Monon Historical Society offered these cars in the Merchandise Service paint. Only the 10' IH 1937 type cars...Monon's 9000 series...got this scheme. I don't know if the company store still has them. Maybe ebay? Bill Darnaby
On Sunday, August 4, 2019, 04:25:15 PM CDT, Bill Keene via Groups.Io <bill41@...> wrote:
Mike, Thank you for the free runner confirmation. I will plan to add one of these cars to my modest freight car fleet. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA
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Shut the Door
Bill Welch
I don't like the operating doors on the the otherwise very fine Kadee PS-1 boxcar so inside I glued a piece of .100 x .100 styrene to the lower right side of the door. I applied Tamiya Super thin on the part against the door to keep it from opening and in the joint of the door opening so the door will be tight against the door opening.
Bill Welch
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Re: Stalking PFE Reefers
Tony Thompson
Bob Chaparro sent a comment with this remark:
Its my understanding that reefers moved on mileage rates, not per diem, so when they were empty there was no rush to get them back to where they had come from. First, Tony is right, reefers operated for many years on a mileage basis, loaded or empty. That's the reason operators like PFE or FGEX or SFRD could not have cared less whether there were return loads or not -- to them, it was the exact same revenue loaded or empty. Second, Doug mentions something very important: PFE had agents all over the east who kept track of empty cars (these were normal junction reports), and would "remind" yardmasters and car distributors to get those cars moving west to where they could be reloaded. It's essential to remember that the primary job of an operator like PFE was to supply empty cars to be loaded, not to generate revenue (to the parent roads) with return loads, and certainly not to sit around in eastern yards. The message was, move them west! soonest! Home territory would have been the rails of SP, UP or WP. Tony Thompson
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Re: Monon
steve_wintner
Decals are available for this scheme: http://www.greatdecals.com/Switzer.htm#301n
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Re: Monon
Allan Smith
I Have conductors lists for the Sierra RR in 1952-1954 and three Monon CIL Boxcars show up on those lists Cars 355,478 & 9251. Al Smith Sonora CA
On Sunday, August 4, 2019 02:25:16 PM PDT, Bill Keene via Groups.Io <bill41@...> wrote:
Mike, Thank you for the free runner confirmation. I will plan to add one of these cars to my modest freight car fleet. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA
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Re: Monon
Bill Keene
Mike,
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Thank you for the free runner confirmation. I will plan to add one of these cars to my modest freight car fleet. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA
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Re: Nuckolls Packing
Jim Gates
There are three photos on page 58 of Billboard Refrigerator Cars. Two are opposite sides of the same car from 1925, the third is from 1935. Jim Gates
On Saturday, August 3, 2019, 1:43:10 PM CDT, James SANDIFER <steve.sandifer@...> wrote: Pueblo, CO, was home to Nuckolls Packing. Does anyone have photos of their meat reefers they can share?
J. Stephen Sandifer
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Re: Monon
Bill,
Yes, those were free running general service boxcars. However, some 50 footers with this scheme seem to have been in assigned service between the RCA factories in Monticello and Bloomington Indiana. There was a similar scheme with the words "HIGH SPEED MERCHANIDISE SERVICE" in the light gray band that were in LCL service from the early 50s until the late 50s. Regards, Mike Aufderheide
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Re: Metal Wheels (Lubricants)
David Soderblom
I strongly agree that powdered Teflon is an outstanding lubricant. Much cleaner than graphite in all applications.
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Re: Stalking PFE Reefers
anthony wagner
Its my understanding that reefers moved on mileage rates, not per diem, so when they were empty there was no rush to get them back to where they had come from. That is probably over simplified but I also know that empty reefer were often used for moving printed material such as magazines and catalogs to warehouses near where the cars had originated on reduced rates that allowed the carrier to pay the mileage charge but recoup that by charging for moving the printed material. When I worked for C&NW in Chicago W.F.Hall printing used to ship Playboy magazines and Sears, Montgomery Ward, and Spiegel cataloge in empty PFE cars moving to the west coast. Perhaps someone with a better understanding of this will respond. Tony Wagner
On Sunday, August 4, 2019, 1:57:04 PM CDT, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
Stalking PFE Reefers The comment below was in response to a discussion about per diem rates on the CB&Q Group. I believe Tony Thompson has mentioned PFE's need to gather their reefers, also. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA ++++ Thank you for the discussion of per diem rates and whether they were too low or too high. I wonder what the home railroad was for refrigerator cars when the refrigerator car company was owned by more than one railroad, such as the PFE. My dad was a traveling agent for PFE (out of Chicago) form 1945 to 1960 or so. It seemed to me his main job was not checking on icings but rather visiting yard offices (making a circuit in an area over the ear) to find the PFE cars that were being held. It did not seem a priority of the railroads anywhere, so far as I could tell, to return the cars. Doug Hosler
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Re: Book FS: "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet"
Scott H. Haycock
This book has been sold. Scott Haycock
On August 4, 2019 at 10:52 AM "Scott H. Haycock " <shhaycock@...> wrote:
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Re: Metal Wheels
My go to has always been Reboxx but I have had trouble getting them. Are they still in business?
Mark P Stamm Mark at Euphoriatt dot Com Sent from my mobile device
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