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Re: Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Dave Parker
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:20 AM, Tony Thompson wrote:
Such banners were disallowed by the ICC early in the 20th century.Tony, can you define "early", and maybe provide an effective date? There are photos of Swift reefer with banners as late as 1934. Was there any connection to the billboard reefer ban, or were they independent edicts from the ICC? -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA
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Re: Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Tony,
Do you mean on moving trains or on all freight cars, even those parked? Do you know when that ban happened? Dave Thursday, May 14, 2020, 1:20:39 PM, you wrote:
-- David Bott Sent from David Bott's desktop PC -- ____________________________ David Bott, modeling the A&Y in '34
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Re: Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Tony Thompson
A&Y Dave iwrote:
Such banners were disallowed by the ICC early in the 20th century. Tony Thompson
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
A few years ago I contacted Kadee and they stated their metal wheels are made of zinc. I believe some people have had issues with zinc powder being deposited as a black substance on their track. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Latest run of Intermountain (Wegmann) HO PFE Rebuilt Reefers
Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
Hi Bob, More to the point they illustrate why I stopped receiving ALL model railroad rags. My best, Don Valentine
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Re: Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Jeff,
In the period around the turn of the 20th century, the lack of TV and other media forms led to a lot of that type of banner advertising on the railroads. I wonder if they were only used for photos, or rolled up and unrolled at various station stops? I've seen "carload" furniture sale banners, fruit banners, and other goods advertised like this on the sides of steam-only era freight cars. Modeling something like this in a diorama like scene on a layout would be fun. I always appreciate when I find an old building with massive solid timber beams. And having had a chance to visit "Big Trees" State Park in California last year, I have a little feeling of what those forests might have been like. What's hard to believe is that such old growth forests existed here in the mid-Atlantic coastal states waaay back when. Thanks for the link. Dave Monday, May 4, 2020, 12:49:22 PM, you wrote:
-- David Bott Sent from David Bott's desktop PC -- ____________________________ David Bott, modeling the A&Y in '34
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Re: Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Fascinating. Note that this load also bridges two flat cars. Much as we discussed recently, it is only fastened at the pivot points, which in this case are near the far end of each flat car. Close examination will show boards under the load at the inner ends
of each flat car. These are "skids" as defined in the AAR loading diagrams, that allow movement of the load as the cars move through curves. There is no direct longitudinal (to the load) restraint on movement.
Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Jeff Helm <jeff.helm.60@...>
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 11:49 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load Here’s an amazing early steam era flat car load of “British Columbia Toothpicks”! From the days when old growth timber was plentiful. Courtesy Vancouver BC archives site, circa 1893.
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/british-columbia-toothpicks-on-car-at-hastings-sawmill -- Jeff Helm Bremerton WA
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
golden1014
Hi Brian,
I've used the Kadee .088-tread wheelsets. Yep, they're made of the same blackened pot metal as the rest of the line. I have attempted to clean the tread of the Kadee wheels by spinning the wheels with a Dremel equipped with a wire brush on the lowest speed. The plastic axles have a tendency to melt in the journal box. Therefore I recommend Reboxx wheelsets if you can still find them. John Golden Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany
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Re: Photo: Stenciling Freshly Painted NKP Box Car 27676
thmsdmpsy
I would say that is a coupler change. After replacing the coupler, they'll reinstall the existing knuckle and regage the assembly. If it still passes the gage, then they will replace the knuckle. As always, Tom
On Sunday, May 10, 2020, 08:42:46 PM PDT, Charles Peck <lnnrr152@...> wrote:
The coupler is there, but the knuckle is laying on the ground below it. This rig seems to be using the knuckle pin as a fixed pivot point. With that hefty jack for power, I can see making metal move. Chuck Peck
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Re: Photo: C&O/Pere Marquette/ Gondola
Larry Wolohon
Protocraft offers O Scale & Proto 48 models of these in brass,
real nice models. They are Greenville gondola, per RPC # 8. I am finishing up an Erie version of these. Larry Wolohon
On May 10, 2020 at 1:12 PM "Bob Chaparro via groups.io" <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:
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Re: NPRHA decals for Rapido NP box.
golden1014
Hi Fred, I may have something I can send. What are you looking for exactly?
John Golden, Ramstein, Germany
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Re: Photo: Pullman Company Boxcar PLM X2023
Michael Aufderheide
All,
See page 200 of RPCYC 31& 32, likely just a static test car. Regards, Mike Aufderheide
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Distinctive Flat Car Toothpicks Timber Load
Jeff Helm
Here’s an amazing early steam era flat car load of “British Columbia Toothpicks”! From the days when old growth timber was plentiful. Courtesy Vancouver BC archives site, circa 1893.
https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/british-columbia-toothpicks-on-car-at-hastings-sawmill -- Jeff Helm Bremerton WA
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
In my case the Kadee wheels would be only in Kadee trucks.
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Brian J. Carlson
On May 14, 2020, at 10:23 AM, Daniel A. Mitchell <danmitch@tir.com> wrote:
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi Dan and List Members,
Dan wrote: “My current rule is, wherever possible: ”plastic sideframes use
metal axles, metal sideframes use plastic axles”
Some folks (myself included) feel that a plastic axle turning within a
plastic truck is undesirable for another reason – it produces a lot of static
electricity. This being caused by the constant plastic-on-plastic rubbing
action. One way to envision this is the old kids trick of rubbing a balloon on
your clothes – the balloon then likes to stick to things because of the static
charge that the balloon acquires. The theory is that when this occurs with a
plastic wheelset to plastic truck combination, dust and dirt is attracted onto
the wheelset, and then later that same dust and dirt gets deposited by the wheel
onto the track.
It sounds plausible to me, but I have no real way of proving this. I do
feel my track stays cleaner longer when I don’t run plastic wheelset to plastic
truck combinations.
Claus Schlund
From: Daniel A.
Mitchell
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 10:22 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Kadee code 88 wheels. Two
comments based on my experience … YMMV.
1) The kadee plastic axles have a very fibrous structure ... look at the
end of one under high magnification. It is ROUGH .. rather like the end of a
brush. This seems to cause little if any problem running in metal sideframes,
but it is very abrasive to softer plastic sideframes. After long periods of
operation it wears the sideframe sockets into oval shapes. This eventually ,
ruins the sideframes, lowers the car enough to cause coupler-height problems,
and destroys rolling qualities. It does take a long time, but is undeniable.
I’ve seen it most with Athearn plastic trucks, but that may be because I had so
many of them. All these trucks had to be replaced. I don’t have enough
experience to know if this also applies to the plastic axle P2K wheelsets. I’ve
seen this problem with NO other axles. My current rule is, wherever
possible: ”plastic sideframes use metal axles, metal sideframes use plastic
axles”.
2) The metal-black DOES contribute to the “black gunk” not the rails. I
have lots of experience with this problem. Run a long train of cars with “shiny”
metal wheels and have little dirt accumulation after HOURS of operation. Insert
a half dozen cars with metal blackened wheelsets, and in an hour or two you’ll
have “black gunk” on the rails. This applies to Kadee and many other blackened
wheels. One problem I see is that many of them have a LOT of “blackening”
residue on the wheels (“over blackened”?) ... often its even powdery and will
flake off. This is poor quality control. However, even a smooth, hard blackened
surface will wear off in operation, and leave residue the track. I am not sure
whether this contributes a lot to poor electrical contact, but it surely does
make a mess.
Both observations above are the result of many LONG hours of train
operation on a club layout during public display. It’s not unusual to run a
50-70 car train for 5-6 hours continuously, several days a week, for weeks on
end, and I’ve been doing this intermittently for over 40 years.
Dan Mitchell
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Re: Kadee code 88 wheels.
Two comments based on my experience … YMMV.
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1) The kadee plastic axles have a very fibrous structure ... look at the end of one under high magnification. It is ROUGH .. rather like the end of a brush. This seems to cause little if any problem running in metal sideframes, but it is very abrasive to softer plastic sideframes. After long periods of operation it wears the sideframe sockets into oval shapes. This eventually , ruins the sideframes, lowers the car enough to cause coupler-height problems, and destroys rolling qualities. It does take a long time, but is undeniable. I’ve seen it most with Athearn plastic trucks, but that may be because I had so many of them. All these trucks had to be replaced. I don’t have enough experience to know if this also applies to the plastic axle P2K wheelsets. I’ve seen this problem with NO other axles. My current rule is, wherever possible: ”plastic sideframes use metal axles, metal sideframes use plastic axles”. 2) The metal-black DOES contribute to the “black gunk” not the rails. I have lots of experience with this problem. Run a long train of cars with “shiny” metal wheels and have little dirt accumulation after HOURS of operation. Insert a half dozen cars with metal blackened wheelsets, and in an hour or two you’ll have “black gunk” on the rails. This applies to Kadee and many other blackened wheels. One problem I see is that many of them have a LOT of “blackening” residue on the wheels (“over blackened”?) ... often its even powdery and will flake off. This is poor quality control. However, even a smooth, hard blackened surface will wear off in operation, and leave residue the track. I am not sure whether this contributes a lot to poor electrical contact, but it surely does make a mess. Both observations above are the result of many LONG hours of train operation on a club layout during public display. It’s not unusual to run a 50-70 car train for 5-6 hours continuously, several days a week, for weeks on end, and I’ve been doing this intermittently for over 40 years. Dan Mitchell ==========
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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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