Re: Shorty automobile car - 1913
Patrick Wade
The car on the loading ramp appears to have the steering wheel on the right, England? Pat Wade Santa Barbara
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 5:58 PM Thomas Evans via Groups.Io <tomkevans=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote: Paul,
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Re: Shorty automobile car - 1913
Here is a link to the photo as posted over on the Early Rail site:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/394918.jpg The one at the dealer is the same although somewhat cropped. Tom
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Offered: MDC puillman built DD SS 50' box car enhancement kit for MP/WP
Andy Carlson
Hello- I have another enhancement kit being offered for sale. I have come upon several left over resin castings of a WP Pullman Co built 50' auto boxcar with pre-war Youngstown doors. Model Die Casting came out with a beautifully built car in HO tooled by Brian Leppert now of Tahoe Model Works fame. Brian was asked to make the siding with exaggerated board spacing grooves to fit in with the convention of-the-time that single sheathed cars needed to be super-obvious. Fine detailed modeling of these kits has been shared with this group; finished models with cast-on details removed and replaced with individual parts. This enhanced kit I offer has the following: 1 new MDC 50' SS double door box car kit 1 pair of Western Pacific/Missouri Pacific polyurethane resin cast sides with subtle board grooves The modeler will need to remove the sides from the kit's car body and replace with the supplied resin sides. I am not supplying hand grabs, ladders, decals or brake details. I am just supplying a labor saving pair of sides for swapping with the supplied MDC kit. Offered for $29 which includes shipping to the US. I accept checks and with a small fee PayPal is welcomed. Please contact me off-list for details at <midcentury@...>. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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AC&F and GE Built Portable Power Plants Berwick, PA Plant
NicholasF
Okay, anyone modeling the Northeast PA or NYC area during WW2, here ya go:
Power plants built for the Soviet Union in Berwick, PA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barrigerlibrary/albums/72157712179496252/with/49395639568/ Pamphlet about the project: https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umsl/islandora/object/umsl%3A319442#page/1/mode/2up -Nick Fry Curator John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library UMSL
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Re: Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214
Bob Webber
I'm NOT trying to say this as an ass*ole - but...isn't the
length directly under the number (just above capy)? It
appears to me to be the case, but it isn't all that clear, which is why I
ask. I'm not conversant with the era's
lettering....
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On Thursday, January 16, 2020, 12:10:17 PM CST, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
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Re: Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214
mofwcaboose <MOFWCABOOSE@...>
Inside length 50 feet, outside length 51 feet 4 inches (July 1915 ORER).
John C. La Rue, Jr.
Bonita Springs, FL
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From: Gary Roe <wabashrr@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Thu, Jan 16, 2020 2:19 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214 Bob,
Judging by the length of the bicycles, I'd say it was a 50' car.
gary roe
quincy, illinois
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, 12:10:17 PM CST, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214
Circa 1905 photo:
Anyone know how long this car was?
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
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D&H 36-footer
Bill Welch
The Boys at the Clearwater Car Shops have been busy getting several freight cars to the point to be painted. This is a Funaro & Camerlengo kit for a Delaware & Hudson 36-foot boxcar, many of which were in service into the 1950's. Many improvements: .005 styrene strips to complete Z-Bars on the ends; Grandt Line lift ring melted w/Testers for push pole pockets; .20 Tichy rivets for bolts/rivets. Note the bent/damaged roof flashing on the ends. Wine ladders scratch built using .010 Plastruct rod w/Athearn harvested rivets on the edge of the stiles serving as the ends of the interlocking ladder rungs. Small "V" shape cuts into the Hutchins roof ribs with Grandt Line NBWs on the ribs—more .010 styrene used to make small stamping in the middle of the roof panels. Largish Archer rivets on the underframe's center sill so maybe they can be seen in profile. The corner braces or gussets in photos I have appear to be heavier than typical so I used .010 x .030 strip styrene instead of .005 thick styrene for those parts. The small gussets on the re-enforcement under the door are .010 styrene rod; after they had cured I pinched them with my sprue cutting tweezers at an angle so they will look like triangles. Because there is white styrene on white or off-white resin, I manipulated the photos to increase the contrast so the styrene improvements can be seen more easily.
Bill Welch
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Re: Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214
Gary Roe
Bob, Judging by the length of the bicycles, I'd say it was a 50' car. gary roe quincy, illinois
On Thursday, January 16, 2020, 12:10:17 PM CST, Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214 Circa 1905 photo: Anyone know how long this car was? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Looking for any info about Linde (CCBX) gondolas #801-815 and the containers.
#801-815
Paul I thought the price was for each one - since only one is shown. Also, for me a load is at least 22 containers, so it's $44. Much better than 22x11 = 231.
On 1/15/2020 5:53 PM, Paul Woods wrote:
Tim, how did you get the figure of $250? According to the website a set of 14 HO-scale containers runs at $31.50, S-scale is $73.25. Is the freight a bit OTT? --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214
Photo: UP Furniture Boxcar 50214 Circa 1905 photo: Anyone know how long this car was? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: NYC Depressed Center Flat 499051
Photo: NYC Depressed Center Flat 499051 Transformer Load: Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Behind the UTLX Dry bulk tank car
mopacfirst
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 06:55 AM, Eric Hansmann wrote:
Ron Merrick
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Re: Caboose restrictions c1914
Rupert Gamlen
Dennis
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
On Behalf Of Dennis Storzek
Sent: Thursday, 16 January 2020 5:21 p.m. To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Caboose restrictions c1914
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:56 PM, Rupert Gamlen wrote:
I wish I could remember where I read the info I cited earlier (requirement for steel centersill and a 26' minimum body length) which I recall was imposed by the ICC, but now that I read the above list, all seven states the Soo Line operated
in are included, so it may have been simply based on state laws. However, the time period seems too early; The Soo didn't begin their rebuild program until 1924, and it continued until at least 1928. It is possible, I suppose, that implementation of the state
laws was delayed by lawsuits by the railroads challenging the constitutionality of the state laws, which would require further research.
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Re: Photo: Staley Tank Cars
I have attached a photograph of a MP boxcar being lifted and turned to clear it of grain.
Robert J. Amsler, Jr. 514 Dover Place Saint Louis, Missouri 63111 (314) 606-6118 (Telephone) (314) 754-2688 (Facsimile) MPFan1@...
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Douglas Harding
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:31 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Staley Tank Cars
Here is an ad for a boxcar unloader device. You can see it tilts and rolls.
Doug Harding
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of pennsylvania1954
On the page reached through Bob's second link, the fifth photo from the bottom, "Staley grain car dumper 1951", caught my attention. How does the grain get out of the rebuilt WABASH boxcar? Does that device roll the car as well as tilt it?
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Re: Caboose restrictions c1914
Dennis Storzek
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 04:56 PM, Rupert Gamlen wrote:
The report includes the legislation from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arkansas, Maine, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire and Washington.I wish I could remember where I read the info I cited earlier (requirement for steel centersill and a 26' minimum body length) which I recall was imposed by the ICC, but now that I read the above list, all seven states the Soo Line operated in are included, so it may have been simply based on state laws. However, the time period seems too early; The Soo didn't begin their rebuild program until 1924, and it continued until at least 1928. It is possible, I suppose, that implementation of the state laws was delayed by lawsuits by the railroads challenging the constitutionality of the state laws, which would require further research. But this begs the question, what is the purpose of tracking down the source of the regulations? It seems the BRHS has published a lot of information over the years that should allow the type and construction of the cabooses in service at any given time period in any given local to be pretty well documented, and that's really what matters; if there are photos of cars running, that is what was running. I suppose that's the reason why I've never put a lot of effort into documenting the reason for the rebuilding of the Soo Line fleet beyond the fact that I know it was completed before my ear of interest. Dennis Storzek
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Re: Behind the UTLX Dry bulk tank car
rwitt_2000
The covered hopper kinda looks like a B&O N-25 rebuilt from their N-13 open-top hoppers.
Eric H. what do you think? Bob Witt
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Caboose restrictions c1914
Rupert Gamlen
I’ve found some of the individual states legislation on the construction of cabooses in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Report for 1914 at
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=caboose;id=hvd.hj2ajm;view=1up;seq=7 (part 1) and
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0004011052&view=1up&seq=9 (part 2)
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Re: Looking for any info about Linde (CCBX) gondolas #801-815 and the containers.
#801-815
Paul Woods <paul@...>
Tim, how did you get the figure of $250? According to the website a set of 14 HO-scale containers runs at $31.50, S-scale is $73.25. Is the freight a bit OTT?
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Regards Paul Woods Whangarei, NZ
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 04:17 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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Caboose Marker and Mars Light Question
Nelson Moyer
I’m building two CB&Q NE-10 waycars. The version I’m building is the modification in 1947 which added an electric wheel driven generator, battery boxes on both sides, and a wagon wheel antenna for radio communication. At some point in or after 1947, Mars lights were added to both ends. Two styles of Mars lights are included in the kit, a round housing with a smaller lens, and a larger square housing with a large lens. I’ve studied the photos in the NE-10 chapter of The Burlington Waycars by Danniel, Reis, and Dowda, and I’ve noticed waycars on some trains had both traditional lantern markers and the large square Mars lights (photos from 1962-1968), while photos taken in 1969 and 1972 show only the Mars light without markers. At some point in the 1060s, the lantern markers were electrified as evidenced by a cord that plugged into receptacles on each side of the ends.
Questions Was there a rule change after 1968 that discontinued use of traditional markers when a Mars light was used? Where both Mars light styles actually used, and what are the dates they were first installed? All photos from the 1960s show square housings. When were markers first electrified?
Answers to these questions have a practical application, as I plan to light the markers and/or Mars lights.
Nelson Moyer
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Re: Need Sunshine instructions
Robert J Miller CFA
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of bill woelfel via Groups.Io <bwoelfeljr@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:42:21 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] Need Sunshine instructions Hi, I recently bought an almost completed Sunshine Models ATSF dry ice reefer kit and would like to finish it. It's model # 16.3, as rebuilt in 1949 for Spencer Chemical. I have the societies reefer book but would still like the instructions. Thanks for
any help, Regards, Bill
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