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Re: Latest run of Intermountain (Wegmann) HO PFE Rebuilt Reefers
William Hirt
Intermountain is one of his show's sponsors. That might have something to do with it.
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Bill Hirt
On 5/13/2020 7:37 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io wrote:
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
I never use Kadee wheels as replacements for wheelsets, but I have decided to keep the 0.088 wheels that come in the new HGC trucks. I have roll tested them, and they are a HUGE improvement over the old Kadee metal trucks. For the metal trucks, Reboxx (or similar) wheels are the way to go. I've also always shined mine up with a Dremel. But I always use a "donor" sideframe to shine them up and you must be very careful not to let the Kadee wheels "spin" from the Dremel - this will ruin the soft journals of the Kadee wheels. Over MANY years of use, Kadee (and other brands of) plastic journals will wear down to the point where they basically have to be dragged around rather than rolling freely. All my fat Kadee and Proto wheels end up as replacements for plastic wheels for cars that end up on Ebay. Tim O'Connor
On 5/14/2020 9:22 AM, Brian Carlson via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
Thanks Denny and Todd. Interesting comment on the axle length since I was testing reboxx wheels in the kadee ASF A-3RC truck and the best fitting length was 1.030 or so. Brian J. Carlson
On May 14, 2020, at 1:11 AM, Denny Anspach <danspachmd@...> wrote:
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Re: 10' High by 8' Wide Superior Doors
Benjamin Hom
Fenton Wells wrote: "Didn’t Sunshine make the door for their EJ&E mini kit? Might want to find one of those and copy it in resin." It had better be a really good door, as going through the trouble to copy it might not be worth the squeeze if you only need one or two. The irony of this is if you can handle resin, you should be able to scratchbuild a Superior door. Ben Hom
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Re: 10' High by 8' Wide Superior Doorsbu
Didn’t Sunshine make the door for their EJ&E mini kit? Might want to find one of those and copy it in resin
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Fenton
On May 13, 2020, at 9:53 PM, Rick Jesionowski via groups.io <dti406@...> wrote:
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Re: Hopper Car Photo
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
Ben, When I opened this Westerfield page I noticed the diagonal brace on the models and went elsewhere. Had I scrolled down, I would have seen other examples without the brace. (Oy veh!) Thanks for the correct ID. Now the other questions remain for y'all to debate: Whose car is this, and why is at the ACF plant in 1946 (repairs, scrapping, modernizing)? Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:56 AM Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> wrote:
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Re: Hopper Car Photo
Benjamin Hom
Garth Groff asked: "An acquaintance sent me this attached photo taken at ACF's Berwick plant in 1946. Our shared interest is the unusual AC&F "critter". Your interest is more likely to be the unusual hopper car in the rear: channel ribs and pressed-steel Fox-type trucks. Too bad there is no lettering showing. The car is a survivor (probably not for long though), since the trucks suggest it was built around 1900. I checked the Westerfield pages, thinking this could be the PSC model they offer, but the car in question has a straight sill, while their model has a dropped sill. Can anybody ID the builder of this car?" David Thompson replied: "Car is the early Standard Steel Car channel-side design without a separate end sill." You also quit looking at the Westerfield pages too soon. The 7400 series hopper kits model the version of these cars with the heavy end sill. Ben Hom
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Hopper Car Photo
David
Car is the early Standard Steel Car channel-side design without a separate end sill.
David Thompson
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Hopper Car Photo
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
Friends, An acquaintance sent me this attached photo taken at ACF's Berwick plant in 1946. Our shared interest is the unusual AC&F "critter". Your interest is more likely to be the unusual hopper car in the rear: channel ribs and pressed-steel Fox-type trucks. Too bad there is no lettering showing. The car is a survivor (probably not for long though), since the trucks suggest it was built around 1900. I checked the Westerfield pages, thinking this could be the PSC model they offer, but the car in question has a straight sill, while their model has a dropped sill. Can anybody ID the builder of this car? Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
Denny Anspach <danspachmd@...>
I find the Kadee 88 wheels to be excellent in many ways, not excluding appearance and quality assurance as to gauge, etc. The blackening will not leave residue on the rails. Shining the treads certainly looks good, but operationally, it is not necessary.
The axle lengths last measured were a uniform 1.015” (like the current Rapido), but the ends are have currently-unusual thick acetal curved-taper ends. Unlike most other current high quality metal wheel sets, e.g. IM, Reboxx, Exactrail, Rapido, and (reportedly) Molocco that have straight taper 2mm ends, the combination of acetal (vs. metal), and the thicker ends makes these fine wheels sometimes difficult to adapt effectively to trucks other than Kadee. I still try to use them as often as I can, but for my purposes (maximum rollability), that is not often as I would like. I keep trying, however. Denny Denny S. Anspach, MD Sacramento, CA 95864
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Re: REMOVING FACTORY LETTERING
spsalso
I have had some experience with Lionel hot stamping their lettering. I am a proud owner of an AB set of their HO T&P Alco FA's. I intended to convert them to GN. I had to turn them into undecs. I found that they had melted their lettering into the plastic shell a bit, and that I had to do some scraping to try to eliminate it.
I do suspect that the process on plastic is different than on metal. By decades, if no other. Ed Edward Sutorik
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
Todd Sullivan
Yup, still coated black. I decided to try some of Kadee's code 88 wheel sets, but I don't have an operating layout at the moment, so I can't comment on whether or not the wheels still deposit 'stuff' on the rails that interfere with electrical pickup. BTW, I use a Dremel tool with a wire brush to shiny up the wheel treads. They look better and may not deposit as much on the rails. I've been doing that for 20+ years, although I switched to shiny metal wheels on all cars about 15 years ago, so this is an experiment.
Todd Sullivan
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Re: NRC / MDT reefers - Plug vs Hinged Doors formerly
twsicrr
According to Roger Hindman’s MDT book, NRC 20079 (pictured in Jim King’s post), was one of 200 cars built by Pacific Car and Foundry for MDT and NRC in 1958 (Lot 571, some, perhaps all, leased to IC). Some, perhaps all, of the 1958 PC&F cars had plug doors.
A photo on page 208 in Hindman shows MDT 13550 (one of 1,000 cars built as Lot 561 by PC&F for MDT/NRC from July through November 1956) had hinged doors. Some of those cars were also leased to IC. Almost all the earlier MDT/NRC refrigerator cars It built at Despatch shops from July 1946 through February 1954 had the more typical hinged doors; however, a chart in Roger Hindman’s MDT book shows that 40 cars, MDT 9935 - 9974 (built by Despatch shops in 1948 as part of Lot 844) had five foot sliding doors. They were apparently leased to NYC. Tom Sinks 126 Connally St. Black Mountain, NC 28711 Email: Twsgso@aol.com Mobile/Text: 336-202-3545
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Kadee code 88 wheels.
I am thinking of trying out some of the above to replace some of the code 110 wheels in my Kadee trucks. Are they the same blackish metal as the code 110 wheels?. The wheel treads are not shiny?
Brian J. Carlson
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Re: 10' High by 8' Wide Superior Doorsbu
Rick Jesionowski
Thanks for all the information, I will probably end up scratchbuilding them as I was going to do the EJ&E cars like one of the respondents noted what he had done. I have made a number of Superior doors for 60' High Cube Boxcars, should not be any more difficult. Rick Jesionowski
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Re: Latest run of Intermountain (Wegmann) HO PFE Rebuilt Reefers
I see Ken Patterson is gushing over the latest InterMountain offerings, including the less-than-perfect PFE reefers, on his "What's Neat This Week in Model Railroading" Show #115: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=X8YGQwo5jHI Shows like these remind me why I stopped subscribing to certain car magazines. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: IC-NRC reefer
Bruce, Stan offered many castings that were NOT complete kits - they were just kitbashing parts. One of the items he offered was the "IC reefer door" intended to be used with the Intermountain R-40-23/25 body.
On 5/13/2020 6:24 PM, Bruce Smith wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: IC-NRC reefer
I was also going to mention Stan - he offered a huge variety of 'kitbash' kits. The PFE R-40-27 also had these plug+swing doors but differed in many respects such as the side panels, riveting, ends, and roof. Challenger imported HO scale brass models of the R-40-27. Around the same time period the Northern Pacific got "double hinged" doors as seen in the attached photo. They were built by PC&F like the PFE R-40-27s and had the same roof and ends and rivet style as the PFE cars.
On 5/13/2020 4:51 PM, Rich C via groups.io wrote:
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Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: IC-NRC reefer
Richard Townsend
Well I stand, um, informed, I guess. That's a really narrow sliding plug door. Without looking at any source such as an ORER, I'll bet the total door width is six feet, with the slider being about four.
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From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@...> To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Sent: Wed, May 13, 2020 3:50 pm Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] IC-NRC reefer All-
Au contraire….NRC 20079 has a left-opening Plug Door and a (less than) Half Width Right Hinged Door. An unusual combination to be sure!
Charlie Vlk
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bruce Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:25 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] IC-NRC reefer Gang,
I'm puzzled. The car Jim posted has a door and a half PLUG door. The IM car has regular reefer doors. Indeed, IM did an NRC/IC paint job on this car (40518-11), which is the IM R-40-23. Stan did kits for the IC 50000-50299 and 50300-50499 reefers based on the IM R-40-23 with new resin sides, but I don't thing that these are the car in Jim's post, which is in the NRC 20000 series... or am I missing something?
Regards
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jeffrey White <jrwhite@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 3:49 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] IC-NRC reefer Intermountain 40518-03 is close. The car has black ends and a silver roof.
Jeff White
Alma, IL
On 5/13/2020 3:11 PM, Jim King wrote:
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Re: IC-NRC reefer
Dave Nelson
I find it interesting how there is a ladder on the side sill by the door. How common was that?
Dave Nelson
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Jim King
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 1:11 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] IC-NRC reefer
Has this car been produced in HO? Diamond emblem is green, roof and ends are reddish-brown, body is dull yellow. I found a pic of a similar car on the Abingdon Branch hauling “seeding potatoes” in LCL, no refrigeration, just being used for insulation.
Jim King http://smokymountainmodelworks.com/
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