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Re: Tank Car United States Army USAX 16503
Tony Thompson
mel perry wrote:
In later years, yes. In the 1950s, no. Tony Thompson
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Re: Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Todd Sullivan
But correct 'Chingish' would be, "Model million pulpwood load begins first stick." No 'a' or 'the' in Mandarin, ditto prepositions.
Todd Sullivan who learned Chinglish from my dear wife who is from Beijing.
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Re: Tank Car United States Army USAX 16503
Allen Cain
All else fails, place it directly behind the engine then the other cars will not be impacted. But if all cars are properly weighted to NMRA standards, I would not think that there would be a problem unless the curve radius are REALLY tight? Just my 2 cents. Allen Cain
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Re: Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Bob, (Here I go again!) I suspect this photo is somewhat mislabeled. The loads are may be shake wood on its way to a shingle mill. Nice photo though. Good find. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:16 PM Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Bob, Unless those crates contain spare parts, or are part of a "kit", they are far too small for a whole car. In the early days before Evans racks, autos were sometimes shipped in crates (via freight cars; mandatory content). I wonder if this continued into later times for overseas shipments. Recently I was watching a Smithsonian channel documentary on the Raj in India. One of the sahibs had a very nice Packard auto, pretty much a luxury car for the time. Would this have been crated for shipment? I suspect so. I owe my life to a 1948 Packard semi-limo my father bought used around 1954. We were rear-ended while stopped by a drunk driver in a Cadillac the police estimated was going well over 60 miles an hour. Our car went airborne, and was thrown all the way across a 4-lane intersection. We all had minor injuries, but my father was able to nurse the car the ten or so miles to our home. The Caddie was winched up onto a flatbed and hauled off to the junkyard. My father immediately bought another used Packard. Those autos were built like the tanks Packard engines powered during the war. But I digress. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 1:59 PM Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Photo: Loading Raw Silk
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Friends, Edward has pretty much hit the silk problem on the head. Silk was a very, very valuable cargo, and was a tempting target for organized crime. Some division points along the silk routes had vault-like buildings into which silk cars could be placed for safe storage until the next train was dispatched. Likely the building was protected by armed officers when it was full. Way back in the 1960s, Bud Sima wrote an article about building one of these vaults in MR. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 12:16 PM Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates
Photo: Loading Packard Automobile Crates A 1905 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:CFAIEB01e765 Click on "Open Image in Viewer". This image can be enlarged quite a bit but loads slowly. Description: "1921-22 Packard truck, left side view, unloading Packard crates into boxcars." Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Dry Ice Refrigerator Car Test
Dry Ice Refrigerator Car Test Here is some "dry" reading if you have the time and inclination: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003645607&view=1up&seq=19 This is a 1952 technical paper from the USDA reporting on a refrigerator car equipped with dry ice system of refrigeration. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi List Members,
Awesome photo! I especially like the gondola closest to the camera – it has
a hole punched into the side, and the side plates are rusted thru near the
bottom.
While I cannot identify the gondola based on visible lettering, the
construction and the rivet pattern tells me it is definitely a PRR class GS (or
GS subclass) gondola
Claus Schlund
From: Schuyler Larrabee via
groups.io
Sent: 10 June, 2020 13:21
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car
1977 Great shot, incredibly clear. But the mere thought of wanting to model that load gives me a very bad headache!
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
<main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via
groups.io
Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977 An undated photo from the Oregon Historical Society. Library: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/train-with-cord-wood This photo can be enlarged quite a bit and shows good detail. PRL&P was the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, from 1906 until 1924. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
An old Chinese proverb says, "The modeling of a million piece pulpwood load begins with a first stick." I read this in a fortune cookie message. The other side of the message had a one-step tip for fixing the underframe of an InterMountain reefer. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Photo: Reefers At Michigan Central Yard - Detroit
mel perry
the one without is a different roof altogether mel perry
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Photo: Reefers At Michigan Central Yard - Detroit
Photo: Reefers At Michigan Central Yard - Detroit A 1928 photo from the Wayne State University Libraries: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc77171_1 These photos load slowly but can be enlarged quite a bit. Most of the identifiable reefers are either PFE or SFRD. Note the car number stenciling on the hatch cover of the PFE reefer in the right-center foreground and the reefer coupled to it. There is no stenciling on the PFE reefer to the left of the first reefer. Comparing these three PFE cars, two have a platform surrounding the hatch cover, one does not. More reefers, same location and year: https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc77171 Bob Chaparro Hemet
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Re: Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Schuyler Larrabee
Great shot, incredibly clear. But the mere thought of wanting to model that load gives me a very bad headache!
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via groups.io
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 1:16 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977 An undated photo from the Oregon Historical Society. Library: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/train-with-cord-wood This photo can be enlarged quite a bit and shows good detail. PRL&P was the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, from 1906 until 1924. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: Tank Car United States Army USAX 16503
mel perry
i believe, in the real world, that's a no-no mel perry
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 10:16 AM Paul Koehler <koehlers@...> wrote:
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Re: Tank Car United States Army USAX 16503
Paul Koehler
All:
Not true, MTS Brass car with the Aluminum tanks, I can run anywhere in a train and any length train. Three cars to over thirty, as you can see it’s first out in front of the caboose in this train.
Paul C. Koehler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of gastro42000
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2020 11:34 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io; Tony Thompson <tony@...> Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Tank Car United States Army USAX 16503
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Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977
Photo: PRL&P Pulpwood Car 1977 An undated photo from the Oregon Historical Society. Library: https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/train-with-cord-wood This photo can be enlarged quite a bit and shows good detail. PRL&P was the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, from 1906 until 1924. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: 20/20 Hindsight Virtual RPM coming fast
Schuyler Larrabee
I searched my email for “virtual,” which got me several dozen hits, but searching for “Speedwitch” got me my receipt too.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ken Adams
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 1:03 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] 20/20 Hindsight Virtual RPM coming fast
Presumably those of us who were able to register will be getting some form of e-mail notification from Speedwitch in the next day or so with the login information. I have an alternate weekly Zoom meeting in the same time period so will have to know which I am attending soon. I have an unfulfilled order on my Speedwitch account that indicates I will be able to virtually attend.
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Re: 20/20 Hindsight Virtual RPM coming fast
Presumably those of us who were able to register will be getting some form of e-mail notification from Speedwitch in the next day or so with the login information. I have an alternate weekly Zoom meeting in the same time period so will have to know which I am attending soon. I have an unfulfilled order on my Speedwitch account that indicates I will be able to virtually attend.
As I understand it registration is now closed as the software limits of attendance (room capacity issue?) have been reached. -- Ken Adams In splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
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Re: Photo: Loading Raw Silk
spsalso
Tim,
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Yes, it's hard to steal from a fast moving train. And it's hard to steal from a train moving at "regular" speed. I'd say the difficulty is about the same. Now, a STOPPED train is different. And that concept applies to both fast and slow trains. And dealing with that problem would be similar for both fast and slow trains. NEVER put the train in a siding. NEVER give the train a yellow or red block. During fueling and engine changes, armed guards with those new-fangled machine guns that every citizen may purchase (fun days, then!) Be ready for surprise stops caused by bad guys (see new-fangled equipment above) Maybe a couple other things I didn't think of but a bright rising railroader would. Ed Edward Sutorik
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 09:16 AM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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Re: Photo: Loading Raw Silk
spsalso
It may be an error to assume the railroad needed any significant insurance for the raw silk load.
They may have required the SHIPPER to buy any "excess" insurance. That has happened to many of us when we ship, when we are asked if we want to pay for extra insurance on our expensive shipment. The shipping company (UPS, USPS) doesn't pay for that; the shipper (YOU) does. So it may also have been the same for the silk shipments. Ed Edward Sutorik
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