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Sunshine Kits wanted
Chuck Cover
Wanted Sunshine Kits:
37.9, 37.11 or 39.12 DL&W 4650 series DS 40’ Boxcar 37.10 LV 60000 series DS 40’ Boxcar 97.1, 97.2, 97.4 or 97.5 NC&SL XM-32 36’ steel rebuilt Boxcar 64.8 NKP 25000-25099 10’6” rebuilt Boxcar with end door 64.14 or 64.15 C&O 2000-2799 rebuilt Boxcar 96.9 D&RGW 65100-65199 steel DD automobile Boxcar
I have a list of 9 sunshine kits that I would be willing to trade for any of the above or if you have a kit that I listed above and want to sell it, please let me know. If youlet me know that you are interested, I will email you my list of extra kits for trade.
PLEASE CONTACT ME OFF LIST.
Thanks
Chuck Cover Santa Fe, NM
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Walter
There is also one located in Montrose, IA. I have been unable to find my pictures. From what I recall it’s in need of some paint and didn’t have a visible number. Lenny Ohrnell
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Greg Martin
All,
In my collection I have a mold/master that Richard Hendrickson had made of a 3-3-3 end for West Rails. I will dig it out and see the spec's on it, but it will have to be after Cocoa Beach.
Greg Martin
Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it.
Norman Maclean Sent from AOL Desktop
In a message dated 1/4/2020 6:22:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, richtownsend@... 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: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Richard Townsend
But it would be so much easier to just tear open a plastic baggie!
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
-----Original Message-----
From: mel perry <clipper841@...> To: main <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Sent: Sat, Jan 4, 2020 6:40 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194 richard:
do what the old timers did, slice & dice
:-)
mel perry
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 6:22 PM Richard Townsend via Groups.Io <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Richard Townsend
I'll have to look and see if I can find one of those cars to take a look at the ends. Train Miniature did some 3/3/3 ends but they are way short. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
It's a Miner "Ideal" lever hand brake. A co-worker of mine at BB&N Technologies (Cambridge, MA) was a descendent of the Miner family. We used to talk trains sometimes...
On 1/4/2020 8:59 PM, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: PS-1s and wooden running boards
ALL box cars built after WW II ended had steel running boards. The first PS-1 box cars
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were built after 1945.
On 1/5/2020 12:29 AM, Brian Carlson via Groups.Io wrote:
In my parts stashI have a few laser kit packages of wooden runningboards for Intermountain PS-1 box cars. Were any PS 1 box cars delivered with wooden running boards? --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
mel perry
there must be two of these cars in museums, i remember another photo, except that car had loading doors on the "A" end mel perry
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 5:59 PM Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Richard, I'm not sure they are up to even the lowest standards of today, but a 3/3/3 Dreadnaught was used on Tyco 50' plug door boxcars. Why I don't know. I cut some away for possible later use from cars found in a box of stuff I acquired, (they are still in my parts box). Since these ends have ladders and brake detail cast on, I suggest getting a pair of cars at a train show and using only the A ends, which would require less carving. I think I've also got some really clunky cast lead 3/3/3 ends, probably from an ancient Red Ball kit. These would be best used as interior weights where they would never be seen again. Remember, never throw anything away. You can always find some use for it. Someday. Maybe. Well . . . . Yours Aye, Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge 🦆
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 9:22 PM Richard Townsend via Groups.Io <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io> wrote: I wish a good 3/3/3 end were available.
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Re: PS-1s and wooden running boards
Ed Hawkins
Brian, No, all were steel. The earliest PS-1 box cars built starting in 6-47 (LV 62000-62499) came with Apex Tri-lok running boards & brake steps. In addition to Apex that had widespread use on PS-1s, other types included U.S. Gypsum, Morton, Kerrigan, & Blaw-Knox. Regards, Ed Hawkins
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PS-1s and wooden running boards
In my parts stashI have a few laser kit packages of wooden runningboards for Intermountain PS-1 box cars. Were any PS 1 box cars delivered with wooden running boards?
Brian J. Carlson
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Armand Premo
Hmmn,And no end numbers,Armand Premo 
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
william darnaby
This is very likely one of the cars that for years sat along the back of the Alcoa Aluminum plant in Lafayette, Indiana and that I saw on my trips to and from Purdue 50 years ago. They got scattered in the late 1980’s when Alcoa gave them up. A handful ended up at the Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville, Indiana. A couple still had their Evans Auto racks in them when I shot them up for an article that I did on upgrading an F&C kit for MR…or was it MM…I don’t remember.
Bill Darnaby
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io
Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194 Three photos taken in Atlanta, Illinois from the Railroad Prototype Modeler blog: https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/dscn9117-1.jpg?w=676 https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/dscn9113.jpg?w=676 https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/dscn9114.jpg?w=676 Notice the lever-style handbrake. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
mel perry
richard: do what the old timers did, slice & dice :-) mel perry
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 6:22 PM Richard Townsend via Groups.Io <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io> wrote: I wish a good 3/3/3 end were available.
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Richard Townsend
I wish a good 3/3/3 end were available.
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Re: Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
mel perry
and a radial roof to boot mel perry
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 5:59 PM Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194
Photos: Wabash Automobile Boxcar 47194 Three photos taken in Atlanta, Illinois from the Railroad Prototype Modeler blog: https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/dscn9117-1.jpg?w=676 https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/dscn9113.jpg?w=676 https://railroadprototypemodeler.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/dscn9114.jpg?w=676 Notice the lever-style handbrake. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: One-Piece Cast Resin Box Car Bodies
I agree Bill. The sad truth is that not many people can produce perfect 1 piece bodies. But they are getting better! The RCW 50' SOO box car - no complaints! Fixing serious warpage is really challenging - e.g. a "twist" in the body. Ugh! If you've never seen one of Gene Fusco's one piece "Railyard" X58 box cars (or his other cars) then you've really missed something.
On 1/4/2020 9:16 AM, william darnaby wrote:
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Re: Shipping Fish
Dave Parker
If anybody is interested, here is a scan of the original article that includes the page number.
-- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA
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Re: Certainly a "Steam Era" freight car!
Steven D Johnson
An article in the August 1963 issue of L&N’s company magazine shows this very car working with an L&N pile hammer-equipped crane in the rebuilding of a bridge over the Tensas River near Mobile, AL. The tender assigned to this car was no. 40694, from L&N K-5 Pacific no. 268.
Steve Johnson
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of mofwcaboose via Groups.Io
Several other railroads, notably the MP and subsidiaries, had similar cars. They were "weed scalders", used for weed control.
The L&N car is more likely used either to supply steam to a pile driver whose own boiler has been condemned, or, more likely, to supply steam to the hammer being used on a diesel pile driver or locomotive crane. Diesel hammers appeared in the US around 1953 but were not much accepted at first, and a number of diesel cranes swinging a set of pile driver leads towed a car such as this to supply steam for the steam hammer.
John C. La Rue, Jr. Bonita Springs, FL -----Original Message----- Ike,
Thanks for that photo! I certainly agree with your statement that L&N had some of the oddest, home-built MofW equipment.
In the Morning Sun Books L&N Color Guide, Volume 2, page 87, there is a shot of this same car at Mobile, AL, in July 1968. The flat car/low side gondola portion was painted “boxcar red,” while the “steam engine” was painted black.
Steve Johnson Nashville, TN
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of George Eichelberger
While looking for Bucyrus cranes on flat cars, I re-discovered the attached photo of L&N MoW flat 41839 in a pile driver outfit 5-17-70 at Atlanta. (low res version attached)
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