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Re: SLSX 3600

Todd Sullivan
 

This car has a resemblance to Mather stock cars - the diagonal channel at the ends and the bracing on the ends, in particular.  Any thoughts, anyone?

Todd Sullivan
Re: SLRX 4216

Todd Sullivan
 

The trucks are National B-1.

Todd Sullivan
GATX 26452

Richard Wilkens
 

One last view, this is GATX 26452 leased to Anheuser Busch for corn syrup. Car is at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles in September 1958.

Richard Wilkens
Re: SLRX 4216

brianleppert@att.net
 

Those are National Type B.  Originally offered by Proto2000 in HO.  Now sold by Walthers and mislabeled as a National B-1.

Brian Leppert
Tahoe Model Works
Carson City, NV
GATX 70977

Richard Wilkens
 

Nice view of freshly built GATX 70977 tank car leased to Archer-Daniels-Midland at Sharon, PA on October 12, 1958.

Richard Wilkens
SLSX 3600

Richard Wilkens
 

Swift Livestock Express stock car SLSX 3600 at Milwaukee, WI in October 1958.

Richard Wilkens
Re: What is This Tank Body?

Jim and Barbara van Gaasbeek
 

Fred,

 

Looks remarkably like the fuel tank at the Quincy enginehouse.

 

Hope you are well.

 

 

Jim vG

 

 

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Fred Jansz
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:05 AM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] What is This Tank Body?

 

Here's a more detailed pic of the car/tank in question
Fred Jansz
Re: National Car Co. NX 6898

Ray Hutchison
 

wonderful photo/find, Richard.


On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 5:39 PM Richard Wilkens <railsnw123@...> wrote:
Was busy doing some scanning and came across this slide of National Car Company NX 6898 taken in October 1956. I find the leasing info interesting as Fruit Growers Express owner lessor, National Car Co. Lessee Sub-Lessor, and Armour and Co. Sub-Lessee.

Richard Wilkens

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Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

leakinmywaders
 

UTLX 103W Red Caboose tank car with Plano walkways. Steve Hile decals, outer edges of main deck walkways reinforced with 0.010" styrene strip. I should have reinforced the dome access walkways that way too (and got them a little more level).
SLRX 4216

Richard Wilkens
 

Here is another refrigerator car, SLRX 4216 at Terminal Island in Los Angeles in April 1958. What type of trucks are these?

Richard Wilkens
National Car Co. NX 6898

Richard Wilkens
 

Was busy doing some scanning and came across this slide of National Car Company NX 6898 taken in October 1956. I find the leasing info interesting as Fruit Growers Express owner lessor, National Car Co. Lessee Sub-Lessor, and Armour and Co. Sub-Lessee.

Richard Wilkens
Re: PRR X26C with both Superior door and 'Stanray' diagonal panel roof

Benjamin Scanlon
 

Thanks Brian, I heard something like this in relation to other cars. 

Cheers
--
Ben Scanlon
Tottenham, England
Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

csxt5555
 

Does anyone know where I can find drawings for the X-3?

Kevin


On May 31, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Dave Parker via groups.io <spottab@...> wrote:

The absence of a decent X-3 in plastic is a never-ending source of mystery to me.  Almost 20,000 cars, seen everywhere.  Who wouldn't want some, especially if they were done well?
--
Dave Parker
Swall Meadows, CA

Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Dave Parker
 

The absence of a decent X-3 in plastic is a never-ending source of mystery to me.  Almost 20,000 cars, seen everywhere.  Who wouldn't want some, especially if they were done well?
--
Dave Parker
Swall Meadows, CA
Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Bruce Smith
 

Garth,

The teeth gnashing, at least from myself and several others that care about tank cars, was that RC choose such an oddball prototype instead of doing a common car. If they had picked the UTLX X-3 and done if a bunch of foodies, I don't think you would have heard the complaints you did when they did this oddball.

Regards,
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> on behalf of Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 1:45 PM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io <main@realstmfc.groups.io>
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car
 
Tim,

The teeth gnashing about this car was over all the fake-o roadnames RC and IM have issued it in. The list of prototypes for this car was very slim, according to Richard Hendrickson, and some of those he cited had surrounding dome platforms. I have built one (GATX, which is spurious--must repaint someday), and think it is a very nice model.

Yours Aye,


Garth Groff  

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 1:07 PM Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
Garth

I don't know about any lamentations... but it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model
if you replace the running boards with open-grid steel. Plano makes an etched metal set for the model.

The US Army (DOD) and UTLX were the largest buyers for the cars represented by the model. Perhaps
people lament inaccurate paint schemes, but then they'd be lamenting most of what is out there in hobbyland.

I think Red Caboose offered both Army and UTLX paint schemes. I know I sent pictures to Bill.



On 5/31/2020 5:54 AM, Garth Groff and Sally Sanford wrote:
Steve, 

Nice list, but you forgot that UTLX bought 500 welded ACF 10K cars in 1951, their series 39000-39499. Richard Hendrickson
identified the often-lamented Red Caboose model as a suitable representation of these cars.

Yours Aye,

Garth Groff  🦆


--
Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

Re: CB&Q XM-30 boxcar

Nelson Moyer
 

It depends on the car class and date it was painted. New boxcars heralds generally had white lettering and outline on black background until 1940-41, when the black background was eliminated.  Repaints generally didn’t have the black background. Reefers with three-color heralds always had a black background. Gondolas and hoppers generally followed boxcar practice, but some classed had body color background when built. Those trends apply through the mid-1050s, and I don’t model anything past 1953, so I can’t speak about it after that date. I have a builder’s photo of 26626 with a black herald background, but all of my photos of reweighed cars show car color backgrounds. Another variation is the white outline, which may be dashed or solid. Apparently some painters didn’t take the time to fill in the stencil lines. Your best bet is to model from a photo. It is generally possible to tell when the background is black by comparing the grayscale intensity with the body color. If the background is darker than the body color, assume black background.

 

Nelson Moyer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Chuck Cover
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 12:37 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] CB&Q XM-30 boxcar

 

Group,

 

Some photos of the CB&Q XM-30 boxcar have a placard on the door with Burlington Route.  Does this have a black background or car color background?  Thanks

 

Chuck Cover

Santa Fe, NM
Re: Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

Richard Townsend
 

I have attempted this operation a couple of times and have come close to success. I liken it to filleting minnows. The UMM saw makes this a better possibility. One more try and I think I'll get it. I, too, use the cut-down Tichy running boards. Or at least intend to.

Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Welch <fgexbill@...>
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Sent: Sun, May 31, 2020 10:59 am
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Tangent GATC 8,000 Gallon 1917-Design Radial Course Tank Car

I have to admit whenever I see a comment like ". . . it's pretty much an exact match to the Red Caboose model if you replace the running boards with open-grid steel. Plano makes an etched metal set for the model." tossed out I laugh to myself and also wench. I have two RC kids and two of the Plano etched running boards. They are on a shelf at eye level I walk by too many time a day to count and occasionally I will pause, open one of the RC boxes and look at the frame with the molded on running board for a few moments, say to myself "Not today" and put it back on the shelf. I just did it again just now. This is not minot model surgery in my opinion. I would love to know it anyone has ever done this surgery and would love even more to see their results.

Bill Welch

Re: Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate

vapeurchapelon
 

Bob,
 
many thanks for that link. I can't get enough of photo and film material of the good old steam days.
 
NKP made excellent and very profitable use of its steam engines. For a rr mostly in flat land Mikados and Berkshires are just ideal engines to really RUN freight across the system. So no wonder they stick long with them. Another and even better example of perfect steam engine service was N&W.
 
Regards
 
Johannes
Modeling the early post-war years up to about 1953
 
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Video: Steam Was Great On The Nickel Plate

Courtesy of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, here is a ten minute video from 1958:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITq8_EuOHxw

This is only a fair quality video consisting mainly of run buy sequences.

There is a lot of reefer action with both produce reefers (mostly PFE & SFRD) and meat reefers (mainly Oscar Meyer, Armour, Hormel & Swift)  in abundance.

At 5:43 is a fuzzy image of a "butter dish" design car, possibly a milk or chemical car.

Otherwise, their are a lot of boxcars whizzing by.

I'm unaware of how much the Nickel Plate relied on steam power at that point in time when so many railroads had completely dieselized, but it would have been odd for that railroad to have needed marginal members of its locomotive fleet in 1958, a year of a very deep recession.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet.
Re: Photos: NP Boxcars

Chuck Soule
 

I realize the post was primarily about the boxcars in front of the flour mills.  But for those who are also interested in the mills themselves, the Tacoma Grain Co. mill, later the Centennial Mill, had some of its components built in the early 1890s, maybe even late 1880s.  It burned in 1947.  Some of the components of the Sperry MIll were built in the early 1890s and lasted until the early 1970s.  Schuster Parkway is now built across their footprints. 

Chuck Soule
More C&O MW Cars

Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
 

Friends,

Here's a collection of C&O's ex-Pullman troop sleepers in MW service. Not exactly freight cars, but IIRC we agreed MW cars counted. The Allied Full Cushion truck appears to be from a different car than any pictured here.

IIRC, some of these cars were used by the C&O for express or mail storage. 910239 is probably one of these, and hey!, it's a boxcar (of sorts). Note that the numbers on this car, 911150 and 911153 are in white. So much for system standards.

Yours Aye,


Garth Groff  🦆
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