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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
spsalso
There's no NIPX reporting marks in January 1939 ORER.
Ed Edward Sutorik
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Re: PM Box loading with ground corn cobs.
Lloyd Keyser
The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, IA in the 40's into the 60's consumed six to eight car loads of cobs a day and processed them obtaining a chemical named Furfural. The cob residue, a very fine powder, was blown into IC covered hoppers for delivery for use in plastics. The covered hoppers were converted in company shops in 1950 and 51, numbers 81750-81752, by modifying three bay coal hoppers. The sides were increased in height and a roof added containing a small vent at the diagonal corners of the roof. In the center of the increased height was a two piece door which opened and a large plate secured with dogs. A flexible pipe was attached to blow the fine power into each end of the car. The hopper doors were modified for unloading the powder. As farming technology improved the corn pickers shelled the corn as it was picked dropping the cobs on the ground along with the stocks and plowed under for next years planting. As the availability of cobs declined the processed was modified to using oat hulls which was the byproduct of making cereal. I am modeling the loading platform and kit bashing two hoppers for loading. I have the IC diagram sheet which gives enough detail to accomplish this. What I lack is a good side view for creating the decals. I have been unsuccessful in obtaining this picture. They are not in the IC archives. Can anyone help? Lloyd Keyser
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
al_brown03
The 1955 tariff 300-H lists *no* 10,000-gallon twin-compartment cars with equal-sized compartments and 4.5% domes.
AL B.
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Re: PM Box loading with ground corn cobs.
The photo shows a portable corn sheller mounted on the back of a truck. The farmer is shoveling corn into the sheller, which is blowing the shelled corn into the boxcar and dumping the cobs on the ground.
Corn cobs were a valuable commodity well after WWII. The CNW built a cob unloading device in Colo IA in 1956, (drawing attached) And I have people who remember the cob pile in town. I also know Belle Plaine IA had a large cob pile and shipped out cobs on the CNW well into the 60s & 70s. I understood they went to a cosmetics company.
Cobs were also used as a biodegradable sand blasting material, animal bedding, and today for ethanol production.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Matt Smith
Nice pic of car loading with ground corn cobs. I read that corn cobs used during the war effort I believe it had something to do with plastics manufacturing??? Several articles indicated local elevators shipping corn cobs for the war effort.
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
Bill Kelly
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NIPX 8 is listed in the 1936 Freight Tariff No. 300-A, capacities of tank
cars. The owner is Northern Indiana Public Service Co. It is listed as an
insulated two compartment car equipped with heater coils having a total
capacity of 9901 gallons. The A compartment is 4952 gal with a 226 gal dome, the
B compartment is 4949 gal with a 226 gal dome. There is also a no.6 and a no.7,
both with very similar descriptions. Sure sounds like this car. Anybody have
info on it after 1936 ?
Later,
Bill Kelly
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:55:12 +0000 "Bruce Smith" <smithbf@...> writes:
Fred,
Just to be 100% clear, NIPX 8 did not exist in the 1950s. That’s a
“post-modern” reporting mark for this list ;)
Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are
the windshield."
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
al_brown03
The 5/1936 tank car tariff lists Northern Indiana Public Service as having three 10,000-gallon two-compartment tank cars, NIPX 6-8. They *don't* appear in the 1/1943 ORER.
Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.
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Re: OMI 1930-built double dome tank car
WILLIAM PARDIE
Overland produced many fine pieces of rolling stock many of which I am proud to have in my collection. Some of their tank cars gave me reason to question them. They produced a three dome model which years ago I finished as a ULTX car. I was pleased with the model until several years ago when I purchased a Tangent three dome car. The Tangent car looked like an N scale model next to the Overland car. I found some drawings in Mailine Modeler which were smaller than the Overland car. I also had a problem with their 10,000 gallon car which had a rather large platform on each end of the car. Searched and searched but none found a prototype photo of this car. Again Mainline modeler had a drawing that exactly matched the Overland car. Possibly Overland used this drawing in producing the car. My only other disappointment was a Texas & Pacific caboose which was 6' too short. This car was replaced with a Hallmark model that was correct. These disappointments are avery small percentage of the many fine models that they produced. I recently rounded out my collection with the purchase of an Overland E-1 diesel originally done for the City Of San Francisco. Overland also produced the version that SP converted to the Daylight scheme with the big number boards. Very pleased with this model. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Tony Thompson <tony@...> Date: 11/4/19 1:20 PM (GMT-10:00) To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] OMI 1930-built double dome tank car Bruce Smith wrote:
You are right that Richard had nothing to do with model design and was less than happy about what eventually came from OMI. At one point he pulled out his prints of all the photos he had sent to OMI. I had a few of those cars, and he had others, which we then looked at. I don't have any doubts of his connection as at least a source of info for OMI. Tony Thompson
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Re: OMI 1930-built double dome tank car
Tony Thompson
Bruce Smith wrote:
You are right that Richard had nothing to do with model design and was less than happy about what eventually came from OMI. At one point he pulled out his prints of all the photos he had sent to OMI. I had a few of those cars, and he had others, which we then looked at. I don't have any doubts of his connection as at least a source of info for OMI. Tony Thompson
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
Fred,
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Just to be 100% clear, NIPX 8 did not exist in the 1950s. That’s a “post-modern” reporting mark for this list ;)
Regards Bruce
Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
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Re: PM Box loading with ground corn cobs.
Jake Schaible
Perhaps Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton)?
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
Fred Jansz
Thanks Bruce and Tim.
Checked the historic files of this group and decided I will paint & letter for NIPX 8. We can't ask Arnt anymore, but Jeff Lemke has a huge OMI database, maybe he comes up with more details? regards, Fred Jansz
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Re: PM Box loading with ground corn cobs.
Dave Parker
The photo caption is a bit ambiguous, and maybe confusing. It looks like the feedstock in the truck is corncobs; the whole ears were presumably shelled elsewhere and the grain used for feed (or seed). Here, the "waste" cobs are being ground down to a smaller size with a large hammer-mill.
A very quick Google search does support their use for plastics during WWII, although the details are murky, presumably due to military security issues. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3437753/corn_cobs_for_war_via_rail/ -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
Bruce and Fred Since Tom Marsh lived in Indiana, he may have been out one day and saw NIPX 8 a tank car owned by the Indiana Public Service utility and decided to measure it. I suspect it had an earlier life (1930's) and the Overland brass image represents it late in life. I agree with Bruce it's an extremely rare type of car, and the model may even represent a unique prototype. I've attached another much more modern insulated 2-dome photo to show there was more than one of the type :-)
On 11/4/2019 8:56 AM, Bruce Smith wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car
only exact match afaik
On 11/4/2019 4:32 AM, Fred Jansz wrote:
Gents, --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: OMI 1930-built double dome tank car
Tony,
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I was quoting the man… I can find no subsequent change of that sentiment, and it is clear from Richard’s comments that he was not involved in the design of this car.
Regards
Bruce
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Re: OMI 1930-built double dome tank car
Tony Thompson
Bruce Smith wrote: This car may represent a single car with a history that is difficult to trace. If you go back to post #135461, you will get the history of this model. Richard Hendrickson indicated that he had NEVER seen a photo of a GATC 10K insulated two-compartment tank in revenue service. Um, no. The prototype photo of this car was indeed provided by Richard to OMI, as were photos of all the cars they did in this run of various tank cars. He did say once that he wasn't entirely thrilled with the ones they picked to model, but he was the source. Tony Thompson
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PM Box loading with ground corn cobs.
Matt Smith
Nice pic of car loading with ground corn cobs. I read that corn cobs used during the war effort I believe it had something to do with plastics manufacturing??? Several articles indicated local elevators shipping corn cobs for the war effort.
http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll35/id/34348/rec/62 No location but somewhere in the central Illinois area. 5/4/44 IDA Pantagraph Collection -- Matt Smith Bloomington, IL
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Re: Looking for way back issues of Railroad Model Craftsman
Folks,
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Thanks for the suggestions. However this list is full of great people and thus I already have copies of the desired articles in my inbox! So thank you all very much!
Regards Bruce
Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL "Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield."
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Re: Looking for way back issues of Railroad Model Craftsman
steve_wintner
The NMRA Library has Archive of most major hobby publications, and will provide copies - to non-members as well, if I recall correctly.
I used that service, admittedly years ago. Steve
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] OMI 1930-built GATC 10, 000 Gal double dome tank car
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Guys;
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I don't remember the car number, but Richard Hendrickson and I discussed it, and he sent a photocopy of the prototype. It was lettered "NIPX", for Northern Indiana Public Utilities, IIRC. The car was of approx. 1930 vintage, and had very unusual dome appliances, but does look like a GATC car. Yes they are rare, but not unheard of. I have seen at least 2 other examples, both in coal byproducts service. Given no one has photos of ALL tank cars, I like Bruce's suggestion.... Elden Gatwood
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bruce Smith Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 8:56 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] OMI 1930-built GATC 10, 000 Gal double dome tank car Fred, This model appears to be OMI #3230, and has been discussed a number of times on this list. Some brief observations. First, two-compartment tank cars are rare. Two compartment insulated tank cars, such as this, are vanishingly rare. Two compartment, 10K, GATC built insulated cars? This car may represent a single car with a history that is difficult to trace. If you go back to post #135461, you will get the history of this model. Richard Hendrickson indicated that he had NEVER seen a photo of a GATC 10K insulated two-compartment tank in revenue service. That's not promising for this model. Second, if it is the model I think it is, good luck actually getting it to run (made by Cheyenne, China, not Ajin, Korea). The couplers are significantly over height and there is no easy fix for that. I am told that the trucks interfere with the underbody rigging and that the trucks are grossly too wide. Is it correct for your era? Yes, probably. Appropriate paint and lettering? Nobody knows (that's the good news) so maybe just use the Black Cat GATX decals, and paint it black and number it in the GATX two compartment series. I would consider an alternative, which is to sell it and get a useful model 😉 Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL ________________________________ From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Fred Jansz <fred@janszmedia.nl> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 3:32 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car Gents, purchased this OMI 1930-built GATC 10,000 Gal double dome tank car recently. However, I have no info about these cars at all regarding time span and paint schemes. I model/collect 1950 (the year). Any help is appreciated. Thank you, best regards, Fred Jansz
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