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Re: Wabash Box Car Trucks - Color
Ed Hawkins
John, If new Wabash box cars built in 1948 by ACF were indicative of repainted box cars of the period, then the truck side frames should be #10 Wabash Red. Regards, Ed Hawkins
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Tony Thompson
Ha, ha.
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Tony
On Aug 22, 2019, at 5:55 PM, Paul Woods <paul@...> wrote:
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Wabash Box Car Trucks - Color
golden1014
Gents,
I'm finishing up a model of a late-40s Wabash single-sheathed auto box car. What color should the trucks be? Black, or the carbody color? Thanks, John Golden Albersbach, Germany RPM Blog: https://railroadprototypemodeler.wordpress.com/
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Greg Martin
Denny,
Have you tried a paint store Like Sherwin-Williams. I will bet you will find it there.
Greg Martin
In a message dated 8/20/2019 6:55:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, danspachmd@... writes:
-- Hey Boss, Somehow I got deleted from this group in late May. I guess someone didn't like me. Jail is a lonely place. Greg Martin
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Nelson Moyer
For anyone stocking up on MEK, don’t leave it in the can you bought it in or it will evaporate long before you can use it all. I refilled my working bottle today, and the quart can was two thirds empty, and I had only used about three ounces since I bought it. I transferred the rest to glass bottles with tight fitting caps.
Nelson Moyer
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Paul Woods <paul@...>
I apologise, Tony - I forgot to include a smiley face in my previous post so that it would be obvious that I was speaking tongue-in-cheek.
Regards Paul
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Re: Magor Car Co drawings
lrkdbn
Thank you for the offer. I already have that kit
Larry King
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
Thanks for your phone detective work, Jim! I spotted some structural landmarks that are still in place today, their 1940’s, function long gone. The area at 22nd (Cermack Rd) as the track goes north to Union Station just before the crossing of the Chicago River looks pretty much the same. I believe Amtrak takes those rails now. Eric Lombard Homewood, IL
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:18 PM np328 <jcdworkingonthenp@...> wrote: Though I DID groan at the mention of Facebook, however I like Chicago history and so looked at the link to the video which did open.
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:18 PM np328 <jcdworkingonthenp@...> wrote: Though I DID groan at the mention of Facebook, however I like Chicago history and so looked at the link to the video which did open.
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
np328
Though I DID groan at the mention of Facebook, however I like Chicago history and so looked at the link to the video which did open.
Some Googling of the names on the warehouses and buildings gave the following data: The train appears to be on the Pennsylvania Railroad Opening - Building in background at 00:7 seconds is Cuneo Press, https://www.rpwrhs.org/w/index.php?title=Cuneo_Press lists this at 22nd and Clinton near the Chicago river, so that is about where the video starts https://www.flickr.com/photos/86125374@N00/2828020279 read comments on the link. At 31 seconds it looks like the photographer is between Cermak Road and the South Branch of the Chicago River. (21st Street?) Google Maps lists this as PRR Bridge 463. Did you see the AT&SF Grand Canyon Line paint on the bridge? As we cross the river that could be Canal street bridge opened. At 1:14 it appears that this is the CB&Q line from the west coming on. Note the two nicely ballasted tracks under the signal bridge. How different it is today. At 1:28 into the video Crooks Warehouse, more here https://www.flickr.com/photos/52209513@N03/33910105995 and here http://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2017/03/bnsfcb-chicago-commuter-train-yard.html Read the comment on second photo down by Bryan Howell , however the overriding gist is that we are looking at the Zephyr pit area by this time into video. Crooks Warehouse Terminal was listed as 14th Place which would put it, just north of the Q & PRR lines merging. Wish more of the Q engine facilities were visible at about 1:32 to 1:40, looking above the cars finds some notable markers. The presence of Pennsy cars is found by this link when Googling Crooks Warehouse Chicago https://explore.chicagocollections.org/image/uic/59/0p0ww5w/ Where the video ends? Not sure if that is the fabled Roosevelt Road overpass at the end. Jim Dick St Paul, MN
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Jon Miller
On 8/22/2019 10:18 AM, Tony Thompson
wrote:
issues with a number of solvents in California are about air pollution This rumor of course but I was told all the
big box stores (and then everyone else) quit carrying these was
the fear of law suits. MEK I understand can still be purchased
in CA, it's just a matter of finding the place. I don't want a
55 gallon drum of it. Years ago I had to go to the bay (Newark),
where all the warehouses are, to get a gallon of glycerin to
pickle lichen. -- Jon Miller For me time stopped in 1941 Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, SPROG, JMRI User NMRA Life member #2623 Member SFRH&MS
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Re: what to do with all those leftover freight car trucks?
sides were shipped upright in gondolas, like Lee Turner's model
On 8/22/2019 9:53 AM, Rick Jesionowski via Groups.Io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
who says time travel is not possible? open platform commuter cars behind steam - them were the days!
On 8/22/2019 1:21 PM, Steve and Barb Hile wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
Garth Groff <sarahsan@...>
Friends,
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This is obviously shot along the CB&Q, as most of the equipment is theirs (I did note a PRR round-roof boxcar). The buildings seem vaguely familiar from my trips on Amtrak into or out of Union Station--some I think some of the structures still standing, though nearly all are empty. Yours Aye, Garth Groff
On 8/22/2019 1:25 PM, Scott wrote:
Cool video, so many neat modeling ideas in there.
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Re: what to do with all those leftover freight car trucks?
Dennis Storzek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:38 AM, Daniel A. Mitchell wrote:
The bronze bearings have to be seated in the journal boxes … it is unlikely that the raw castings would be suitable without some clean-up. Possibly the spring pads and bolster slots would also need some work. Was such done at the foundry, or at the RR shop?The bearings seat against a loose piece in the box called the journal bearing wedge. These may well be machined, but only fit against locating bosses in the box. Dennis Storzek
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Re: what to do with all those leftover freight car trucks?
Dennis Storzek
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:08 AM, Richard Wilkens wrote:
The only area I think that would be "machined" would be the holes for the journal box covers, but this would be more drilling.Those are rather large diameter and require little precision. I suspect they are cored in the casting. Dennis Storzek
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
MEK is part a long list of things we are not able to use such as straws. It is only a matter of time before Tru-Color paints will declared illegal.
Gene Deimling
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
Scott
Cool video, so many neat modeling ideas in there.
Scott McDonald
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Re: Video: Forgotten Chicago
I do not belong to FB, but I could see it as this appears to
be a public site. Some good Burlington and HW Pullmans as well, pass by
quickly.
Steve Hile
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:44 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Video: Forgotten Chicago Forgotten Chicago For those of you who have Facebook (Yes, I hear your groans of disapproval) here is a short film shot from a train passing through Chicago's rail yards and industrial areas in the 1940s: https://www.facebook.com/Charingx/videos/10155451305567465/ Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: MEK Substitute and current plastic cements
Tony Thompson
Paul Woods wrote: You are quite correct, Jon - neither Toluene nor MEK are regarded as being carcinogenic (except in California, where apparently EVERYTHING is) . . . Please stop these uninformed and foolish remarks. The issues with a number of solvents in California are about air pollution, not cancer per se. California's Proposition 65 does require "cancer danger" notices for a great many substances (all of which, incidentally, ARE proven carcinogens), but that's a different story. Tony Thompson Berkeley, CA
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