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Re: REA questions
That photo shows a troop sleeper, rebuilt as an ice refrigerator car.
On 2/19/2020 11:15 PM, naptownprr wrote:
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Re: chlorine cannister flats (was Virginia Chemical Tank Cars)
Ed Hawkins
Tim, ACF wasn’t the only builder of cars of this type that were primarily used for chlorine containers. ACF records document the company built approximately 350 "Multi-Unit Tank Cars" from 1924 to 1958 comprised of 87 orders having lot numbers assigned. Roughly half of the cars were built before 1940 with the largest pre-1940 order being 16 cars. Ten of these cars were built “for stock” for the U.S.A. Chief of Engineers. I don’t know the disposition of these lot 2370 cars built in July 1941. Six ACF builder photos of these cars are on the Barriger Flickr web site with 3/4-views & “B” end views of 3 of the earliest cars - lot 10, MALX 365; lot 188, VSX 204; lot 401, GWEX 4?? (angled view hides car number). List of ACF M-U tank cars by reporting marks to include the quantity of cars, number of orders, and range of build dates: ACCX - 10 cars, 4 lots 1926-1935 ACF - 10 cars, 1 lot, built 1941 (U.S.A. Chief of Engineers) BAKX - 2 cars, 2 lots 1931-1932 BCX - 7 cars, 3 lots 1926-1931 CACX (or possibly PPGX) - 21 cars, 2 lots 1936-1937 CALX - 3 cars, 3 lots 1927-1934 CILX (Canada) - 2 cars, 2 lots 1932, 1945 DAX - 23 cars, 11 lots 1928-1946 DUPX - 15 cars, 3 lots 1926-1933 GCX - 26 cars, 1 lot, built 1948 GWEX - 8 cars, 2 lots 1927-1928 HOKX - 8 cars, 2 lots 1925-1926 MALX - 10 cars, 1 lot, built 1925 MONX - 7 cars, 3 lots 1932-1936 PSMX - 32 cars, 12 lots 1924-1948 SHPX - 101 cars, 16 lots 1937-1948 (lessees - Westvaco, DuPont, Diamond Chemical, likely others) SPX - 44 cars, 11 lots 1927-1948 TELX - 1 car, 1 lot, built 1930 TENX - 4 cars, 1 lot, built 1949 (for sulphur dioxide containers) VSX - 15 cars, 5 lots 1924-1929 WCX - 1 car, 1 lot, built 1930? (unsure about this order) Regards, Ed Hawkins
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Re: Fw: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
I seem to remember seeing a similar picture years ago. It was undersea telegraph or telephone cable. It was wound spool to spool to spool and continued across from car to car in one long continuous length. Uncoupling levers had been removed, as I recall. Chuck Peck
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:53 PM Claus Schlund \(HGM\) <claus@...> wrote:
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Fw: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
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Hi Andy and List Members,
Andy wrote: "Details aren't clear enough to tell
what kind of loads these are, but there's 2 per car"
It is true the details are not clear enough, but to
my eyes it looks like there are eight per car, arranged 4 long by 2
wide. each of the eight load items appears to have the wood secured
with two dark black bands
Enjoy!
Claus Schlund
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From: Andy Jackson
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery
Loads Here's an enlargement of 2 of
the mystery load cars. Details aren't clear enough to tell what kind of loads
these are, but there's 2 per car.
Andy
Jackson
Santa Fe Springs CA
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Bob Webber
Garth, they still dig up redwood pipes in
Chicago. There are likely hundreds of installations still
(mostly) intact. They are a good (if you can get around the waste
and ecological issues) "pipes".
Wood survives a lot longer in some areas. Telegraph poles from the 1880s are still to be found around Marshall Pass on the D&RG. Flumes can also be found in this and other areas. And the first long distance transmission line was in Western Colorado along the RGS - requiring flumes, poles, cross arms, etc. Dense old growth wood can stand up to the elements incredibly well, as compared to newer growth wood. At 10:23 AM 2/21/2020, Garth Groff and Sally Sanford wrote: Friends, Bob Webber
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Friends, The idea of these being redwood pipes now makes more sense than spools of wire. Even more sense when I remembered that there once was a factory near Antioch, California on the ATSF that made redwood pipes. And lookie what I found: http://www.sandiegoyesterday.com/?tag=redwood-pipe . This one is big enough to be one of the pipes on the flat cars. Some of these systems endured for years. Although not redwood, you can still see miles of wooden flumes that fed several PG&E powerhouses along the Truckee River between Truckee and Reno from the windows of the California Zephyr. I think those flumes are all dead now, but they were still being maintained into the late 20th century. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:49 AM Gatwood, Elden J SAD <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote: Ron, and All;
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Ron, and All;
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To add: After the Loma Prieta earthquake, I was assigned to damage assessment in the Santa Cruz mountains outside Santa Cruz, CA. Even at that late date, there were water districts that had redwood water tanks and redwood water lines, that I assessed damage to, and wrote up for FEMA funding for repair. They were remarkably durable, unlike concrete or masonry. One large redwood tank above Scotts Valley, had slid partly off its foundation, but still had most of its water inside. Remarkable. Elden Gatwood
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of mopacfirst Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:32 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads That's the most plausible explanation I've heard so far. Comparing the load to the flatcar says these things are about 4', maybe 4'-6" max, in diameter. That's a reasonable size for water piping. Two to a car longitudinally says they're 20' long more or less, which was and is a common length for joints of pipe. I found a 1942 catalog of wood pipe which claimed extensive use, even at that date. The war probably boosted its use a bit. Blockedhttp://www.waterworkshistory.us/tech/Pipe/1942WoodPipe.pdf Not incidentally, they also built water tanks, which if I recall correctly had some use on railroads when they used those external combustion locomotives. I also ran across this photo -- Blockedhttp://www.waterworkshistory.us/tech/Pipe/1942WoodPipe.pdf Ron Merrick, piping engineer
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
mopacfirst
That's the most plausible explanation I've heard so far.
Comparing the load to the flatcar says these things are about 4', maybe 4'-6" max, in diameter. That's a reasonable size for water piping. Two to a car longitudinally says they're 20' long more or less, which was and is a common length for joints of pipe. I found a 1942 catalog of wood pipe which claimed extensive use, even at that date. The war probably boosted its use a bit. http://www.waterworkshistory.us/tech/Pipe/1942WoodPipe.pdf Not incidentally, they also built water tanks, which if I recall correctly had some use on railroads when they used those external combustion locomotives. I also ran across this photo -- http://www.waterworkshistory.us/tech/Pipe/1942WoodPipe.pdf Ron Merrick, piping engineer
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Help with freight car list
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Thank you, Doug! Very helpful!
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Elden Gatwood
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Doug Chapman via Groups.Io Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:34 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Help with freight car list Elden, NYC 43267 was a 50 ton, 40' box car, built by Despatch Shop in 1956, NYC Lot 858B. It was one of 1390 cars numbered 42000-43389. The drawing below comes from Terry Link's Canada Southern <Blockedhttp://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/NYC-MODELS-FREIGHT.htm> website. Doug Chapman Montclair, VA <Blockedhttp://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/images/lot-858.jpg>
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
They look like sections of redwood pipe to me. They were common in California back in the days before they switched to concrete pipe, for water transmission.
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Andy Jackson Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:35 PM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads Here's an enlargement of 2 of the mystery load cars. Details aren't clear enough to tell what kind of loads these are, but there's 2 per car. Andy Jackson Santa Fe Springs CA
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
tyesac@aol.com <tyesac@...>
They appear to have wheels under each one, so, I wonder if these are something like a towed pneumatic compressor, or a heavy duty hydraulic pump. Sunshine had a kit load for something like these, however those were single axle carts covered by square wooden shipping hoods. A modeler would be able to create a similar looking load by just modeling the tires,wheels, axles tow hitch with some kind of plank hood. Correct AAR blocking & tie downs would make it more convincing. Signage painted on the plank covering would be a mystery for now though, beyond a "do not hump" placard.
Tom Casey
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From: Matthew Metoyer <mmetoyer@...> To: main <main@realstmfc.groups.io> Sent: Thu, Feb 20, 2020 10:03 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads The location appears to be Frost, immediately after the flyover, so this train is eastbound. What businesses in the LA area would ship something like this?
Matthew Metoyer
Santa Maria CA
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:44 PM Greg Martin via Groups.Io <TGREGMRTN=AOL.COM@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Matthew Metoyer
The location appears to be Frost, immediately after the flyover, so this train is eastbound. What businesses in the LA area would ship something like this? Matthew Metoyer Santa Maria CA
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:44 PM Greg Martin via Groups.Io <TGREGMRTN=AOL.COM@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Greg Martin
I guess it really doesn't matter if you simply built them and use them as an open load., does it. great conversation piece. Could be just about any round load.
Greg Martin
Eventually all things merge into one and a river runs through it.
Norman Maclean Sent from AOL Desktop
In a message dated 2/20/2020 11:27:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, chiefbobbb@... 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: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Here's an enlargement of 2 of the mystery load cars. Details aren't clear enough to tell what kind of loads these are, but there's 2 per car. Andy Jackson Santa Fe Springs CA
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Re: Help with freight car list
Doug Chapman
Elden,
NYC 43267 was a 50 ton, 40' box car, built by Despatch Shop in 1956, NYC Lot 858B. It was one of 1390 cars numbered 42000-43389. The drawing below comes from Terry Link's Canada Southern website. Doug Chapman Montclair, VA 
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Brad Andonian
They seem like racks of ties that fit into retorts for creosoting..
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Paul Woods <paul@...>
Hi Folks
A clue to the nature of the loads lies in the wood sheathing; whatever it is requires substantial protection from mechanical damage. Spools of wire makes good sense, especially if it is something like high-tension electrical cable which does not have insulation. High quality steel cable such as used with cranes and elevators is another possibility. A long shot would be specially finished metal liners for a very large diesel engine as found in ships, or maybe the sleeves used in large bearings. Having worked as a mechanical engineer designing ships, I have seen cylinder liners larger than what would fit in those wood drums, and overseen the manufacture of bearings nearly that big for tugboats' towing winches. However, I would have thought that steel cable or cylinder liners would require protection from water so they would be in a boxcar or at least covered with tarpaulins, so my money is on electrical cable because copper won't corrode much during the journey. Whatever is inside, those drums make a great load for a flatcar! Regards Paul Woods Whangarei, NZ. NYCSHS #7172
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Re: Santa Fe Freight Near Victorville - Mystery Loads
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Bob, One possibility is coils of wire on large spools turned sideways. I've seen, or seen photos, of coils like this enclosed in boards that were banded around the wooden edges of the spools with metal straps. If any of you have Gregg's TRAINSHED CYCLOPEDIA No. 36 (or the 1919 CAR BUILDER'S DICTIONARY), look on page 1112, figure 93. This diagram is for large boiler sections, but the loading principle is similar and is the closest I can find. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:27 PM Bob Chaparro via Groups.Io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: [External] Re: [RealSTMFC] REA questions
Jim Lancaster
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 08:09 PM, Dennis Storzek wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:32 PM, naptownprr wrote:After the Second World War the Railway Express Agency rebuilt a number of troop sleepers into express refrigerator cars. The late Lou Cross took this photo in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. I originally posted the image on my web page http://coastdaylight.com/reareefer.html almost twenty years ago. Jim Lancaster
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Re: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Sudan. PA
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Mike, et al;
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I am not familiar enough with how P&WV trains were blocked, or what many of them were composed of, but P&WV had some very diverse make-ups, due to the customers involved. USS Donora had a diverse portfolio of products, too. You could see gons of sheet, wire "mattress", or "wire", plus tank cars of acid (103-B) and by-product (103's). There were also western, mid-western and southern box cars in consists, on their way home with bagged ammonium sulfate for soil amendment. But those Hersheys box cars are a mystery to me. It is beyond me why they would be down there on their way to or from Donora. Elden Gatwood
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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of m repka via Groups.Io Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:52 PM To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [RealSTMFC] Sudan. PA Sort of a remote area! Not far from Monongehela Pa. this is where the Donora Southern and United States Steel RR came off of the P&WV main, and went about 5 miles to the USS mill in Donora and also the slag dump some of which is still there right along the river. The line was up on the hill from the river and it also had two tunnels, one short and the other one maybe a half mile long, and those tunnels are still there also. That Narrow Gauge Rd. is the ROW of the DS and I have driven on it but do not know how it got that name as pretty sure the line was never narrow gauge Mike in St. Petersburg Fla
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