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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
Chuck Soule
It's not uncommon to see mothballed flattops in Tacoma Tideflats air photos from the 40s, 50s, and maybe even into the 60s. They were escort carriers built by the shipbuilding company at the tip of the peninsula that the Hooker Plant was on. My understanding is that they were in the process of being completed when WW2 ended, and were mothballed right there without ever having been commissioned. I may not be exactly correct about their service histories, but they were definitely mothballed in the immediate vicinity of the Hooker plant.
When the Hooker plant was modeled on the PSMRE layout at the Washington State History Museum, the backdrop painted behind it included not only the stockpile of salt for the plant, but also paintings of a freighter directly behind the stockpile and an escort carrier to the left. The ships copied after art on the tops of the boxes for model ship kits for an escort carrier and a freighter from the 40s-50s era. I just tried to find a photo on the PSMRE site to no avail, and I can't go take pictures because the museum is closed for the duration. My ramblings are getting a bit off track for freight cars, but I hope you find the context interesting. We just HAD to have the Hooker plant on the PSMRE layout so we could appropriately switch chemical tank cars showing the Hooker paint scheme, especially with "Return to Tacoma" on them. Chuck Soule
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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
David Wiggs
A little to the
left, which would be east, is where the USN used to have three Minesweepers
live. They were tied up next to a group of warehouses and were
just down (west) the tital cut from a power house next to a bridge that
crossed this tital cut.
Davo in
Orlando
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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
tbarney2004
That would be the USS Intrepid at what
would have been, I believe, Pier 86 @ W. 46th Street which is a
few blocks south of the Manhattan Cruise terminal (today) which
happens to sit on the Hudson River, which is incorrectly named
being that it is a tidal estuary, as the tidal flow extends up to
and past Albany 100 miles north.
Tim Barney - sitting about 1/4 mile
from the old, long gone, O&W Kingston Branch and the
Ellenville Station/Freight Depot (for some steam era content)
On 4/10/2020 7:13 PM, Donald B.
Valentine via groups.io wrote:
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Recommendations: two Wilson & MRRX Mather RC RTR meat reefers
Andy Carlson
I just checked out Mather meat reefers on Ebay after my Mather post just minutes ago. There are a good number of both Red Caboose RTR and kits offered, almost all at much less expense than mine. I recommend going to ebay first. I don't mind keeping my two reefers! Stay safe, everyone. -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
On Saturday, April 11, 2020, 9:22:32 AM PDT, Andy Carlson <midcentury@...> wrote:
Hello- I have two Red Caboose factory assembled HO Mather meat reefers offered for sale. RC RR-31009-5 Wilson Car Lines; WCLX 7532 RC RR-31001-5 Mather orange lease car MRRX 2684 Priced at $35 each, shipping included to the US. These are new, in never been opened packaging. I accept checks and money orders. With a small fee PayPal is accepted. Contact me off-list (Please) at <midcentury@...> for details. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA _._,_. _._,_._,_
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Offered: two Wilson & MRRX Mather RC RTR meat reefers
Andy Carlson
Hello- I have two Red Caboose factory assembled HO Mather meat reefers offered for sale. RC RR-31009-5 Wilson Car Lines; WCLX 7532 RC RR-31001-5 Mather orange lease car MRRX 2684 Priced at $35 each, shipping included to the US. These are new, in never been opened packaging. I accept checks and money orders. With a small fee PayPal is accepted. Contact me off-list (Please) at <midcentury@...> for details. Thanks, -Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Thanks Michael, Stay safe during this time. Fenton
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 12:11 PM Michael Gross <ActorMichaelGross@...> wrote: Lovely build, and I appreciate the "heads-up" concerning the Kadee upright brake wheel. Love its delicacy. --
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Lovely build, and I appreciate the "heads-up" concerning the Kadee upright brake wheel. Love its delicacy.
-- Michael Gross Pasadena, CA
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All Sold: InterMountain Santa Fe (SFRD) Reefers, RTR and Kits (HO)
Joseph Melhorn
The last five cars are sold. Thanks again to all who purchased them. Thanks, Joe Melhorn Sahuarita, AZ 85629
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Re: C&O 9827
James Brewer
Great job Rich....very nice!
Jim Brewer
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
I added some sheet lead in 4 places to get it's weight up. I think I added about 3 oz but didn't put it on the scale yet. Fenton
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:43 AM Ryan Mendell <ryan.mendell@...> wrote:
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Looks great Fenton. I have one of these in my stash and a set of Teds decals. Did you add any weights or is the car weight ok out of the box?
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On Apr 10, 2020, at 1:59 PM, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Re: Kadee brake wheel (was Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068)
Those wheels were made for the Kadee skeleton log flats. I have a bunch of them.
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They have been around for many years.
On 4/11/2020 2:53 AM, mvlandsw wrote:
Nice job on the car Fenton. Where did you get the Kadee brake wheel? I can't find it on their site. I wonder if making that part means a flatcar model is in the works. --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
John Barry
Fenton, That's a scary good build. Don't you just hate the spell checker? Your subject line is Freudian...... John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736
On Saturday, April 11, 2020, 09:09:21 AM EDT, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote: Thanks for the nice comments Mark and everyone Fenton On Apr 11, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Srrfan1401 <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
Mark, you will have to wait for Kadee to open back up after the virus subsided. Then call them and ask for Sam and he will sell you some. They are excellent and come in one piece, wheel and stem altogether Fenton On Apr 11, 2020, at 2:54 AM, mvlandsw <mvlandsw@...> wrote:
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Thanks for the nice comments Mark and everyone
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On Apr 11, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Srrfan1401 <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Mark, you will have to wait for Kadee to open back up after the virus subsided. Then call them and ask for Sam and he will sell you some. They are excellent and come in one piece, wheel and stem altogether
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On Apr 11, 2020, at 2:54 AM, mvlandsw <mvlandsw@...> wrote:
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Re: C&O 9827
Paul Doggett
Rich
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Very nicely done it looks great. Paul Doggett. England 🏴
On 11 Apr 2020, at 01:02, O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> wrote:
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Nice job on the car Fenton. Where did you get the Kadee brake wheel? I can't find it on their site. I wonder if making that part means a flatcar model is in the works.
Mark Vinski
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Re: C&O 9827
Schuyler Larrabee
NICE!
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Richard Remiarz
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 7:57 PM To: RealSTMFC@groups.io; ResinFreightCarBuilders@groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] C&O 9827
Last month I asked for information on the C&O 1930 40' automobile boxcars. Thank you to everyone that responded. The information provided was very helpful. I just completed the car today.
This is a F&C one-piece body kit. I added TMW Buckeye trucks, Red Caboose 7 rung ladders, DA tackboards, DA roping rings, HiTech Details air hoses and brackets, DA coupler cut levers, Yarmouth cut lever brackets and brake levers, with Grandt Line turnbuckles and DA chain used on the brake gear. I used TruColor TCP-219 C&O Freight Car Red paint with Speedwitch decals. Since the car was repainted only 10 months before the date I model, a light coat of weathering was applied using Pan Pastel Raw Umber and Neutral Grey Extra Dark.
Sincerely, Rich Remiarz Vadnais Heights, MN
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Re: Poorly Secured Load?
mel perry
looks like the load did shift, look at the end blocking mel perry
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 7:55 PM Charlie Vlk <cvlk@...> wrote:
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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
Ralph W. Brown
Hi Don,
That “flat top” would be the USS Intrepid (CV-11), the battleship USS
Massachusetts (BB-59) is in Fall River, MA, and the USS Albacore (AGSS-569) is
in Portsmouth, NH. I’m sure there are others as well. Unfortunately
the USS Skipjack (SSN-585), “the first, the fastest and the finest nuclear
powered teardrop hull” was decommissioned and “recycled” in the 1990s
after more than 30 years in front line service.
I was assigned Skipjack in my youth. The State Pier in New London,
CT, was our homeport back then (1963-‘64). I used to cut through the CV
yard going to and from the train station. The CV still had one or more
wood cabooses in the yard. I like to be able to find the slides I shot at
the time. I even managed to get an interior shot that took from an end
platform with the camera up against a somewhat grungy window in the door.
The result was a bit dark, but still pretty good under the circumstances.
There probably were other cars I should have photographed, but just couldn’t get
past my fascination with those cabooses. I don’t recall when I last saw
it, but I love to find it and the numerous other railroad photographs, mostly
slides, I’ve taken over the years.
Pax,
Ralph
Brown
Portland, Maine PRRT&HS No. 3966 NMRA No. L2532 rbrown51[at]maine[dot]rr[dot]com
From: Donald B. Valentine via groups.io
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 7:13 PM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Hooker Chemical, Tacoma What a shame to cut up the
Liberty Ships. I gather there was no interest on the Left Coast to restore one
as has been done on the East Coast with the John W.
Brown out of Baltimore on which crusies are offered or
even just tours such as on the DDE USS Slater in
Albany, NY or the USS Kidd in Baton Rouge, LA. IIRC there is also a WW II flat top in NYC.
Cordially, Don Valentine
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