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Re: Express Car Movements

Jim Betz
 

Tony,

  I believe you have told me before that the SP Overnight was one of the
exceptions.  Perhaps I have gotten to that point in my life where I have
forgotten more than I know.  I am sorry to have offended your knowledge
of all things SP and will attempt to remember to not use SP Overnight in
the list of examples of special service box cars which didn't last long in
that service.  Mea culpa.  It was not intentional.
                                                                                             - Jim
Re: PFE wood ice reefer underframes

Tony Thompson
 

I agree with Dick. Bettendorf underframes were not replaced, just the supply of frames supplemented with RR Design.
Tony Thompson 


On Aug 1, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Dick Harley via groups.io <dick.harley4up@...> wrote:


Tony knows more than I do, but the RR Design did not "replace" the 30-ton Bettendorf underframes on PFE reefers.  They were a means to increase the number of cars PFE could get, without being limited by Bettendorf.  And old Bettendorf underframes were used in PFE rebuilds up through the R-30-21 class in the mid-1940s.

I use the terms "RR Design" and "Built-Up" interchangeably for those underframes.  Not sure I have a preference.  Many diagrams use both.
Here is a summary about them:
https://harley-trains.smugmug.com/PFETrainPhotos/PFE-Wood-Ice-Reefers/Bettendorf-vs-Built-Up/i-drRrvqG/A
I'll soon announce here more info on PFE wood reefer rebuilds on my SmugMug site.

If there was a significant problem with cracking of Bettendorf underframes on PFE reefers, that's news to me. 


Cheers,
Dick Harley
Laguna Beach,  CA
ACL Box Car Question

Tim
 

Would any one know what would be in the yellow box in this picture.  Is it the returning instruction or is it the warring for no roof walk?

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/acl/acl24270jpa.jpg

Thanks,

Tim Alund
Re: Rates Charged For Loaded Reefers

Tony Thompson
 

Nominal weight of full bunkers both ends was 10,000 pounds. But if car weight was established before icing, no problem. Shippers of course paid for all the icing that was done, but not for transporting it!
Tony Thompson 


On Aug 1, 2020, at 6:21 PM, Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb@...> wrote:



Rates Charged For Loaded Reefers

A question from another group:

"I've got a question about rates.

The shipper paid by weight to move produce. And the car had a tare weight.  Assuming that 13,000 pounds of ice is in the car, and the car is weighed before transit to its destination, was the shipper paying a freight rate to move ice?  Seems unfair to the shipper."
Anyone? Thanks.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA
Rates Charged For Loaded Reefers

Bob Chaparro
 

Rates Charged For Loaded Reefers

A question from another group:

"I've got a question about rates.

The shipper paid by weight to move produce. And the car had a tare weight.  Assuming that 13,000 pounds of ice is in the car, and the car is weighed before transit to its destination, was the shipper paying a freight rate to move ice?  Seems unfair to the shipper."
Anyone? Thanks.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA
Re: Express Car Movements

mopacfirst
 

I looked for these cars in the Jan 55 ORER, by which time the conversion of single-sheathed cars to steel boxcars was complete.  Certain series of cars that received new steel bodies had some designated as standard boxcars and others as Merchandise Service "For Merchandise Loading on M.P. Lines Only".  Of the possible cars that are listed as merchandise service, there are only the following that fit the numbers described:

41112, 41312, 46112, 46212, 47212, 47312, 47412, 47712, 48312, or 48612.

Several different series of 20s built single sheathed cars were used for this upgrade program, and the ends could have varied widely but they were otherwise fairly similar.

Ron Merrick
Sinclair 2 and 3 compartment tank cars

Richard Townsend
 

Sinclair had quite a few 2 and 3 compartment tank cars, but I have never seen any photos of them. Does anyone on this list know of such?

Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
Re: Express Car Movements

Douglas Harding
 

It was also home of the Toad Suck Inn, a catfish restaurant. And the town celebration is focused on toads, with a giant toad painted on the main intersection in town. Of course none of this has anything to do with freight cars.

 

Doug Harding

www.iowacentralrr.org

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 5:29 PM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Friends,

 

This has nothing to do with freight cars, but Toad Suck, Arkansas, that Jim mentioned is a real place (sort of). The minister who married Sally and myself was from there, and his mother still lived in nearby Booger Hollow. Toad Suck is noted for the Toad Suck Dam and Locks. 

 

Yours Aye,

 

 

Garth Groff 🦆

 

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM James SANDIFER <steve.sandifer@...> wrote:

LCL freight cars would roam the country just like any other freight car. Let’s say you are a mfg. in New Jersey. You take your stuff to the freight house. The freight house has enough stuff from various senders to ship to Los Angeles to fill two cars, so they do.  Another car may head to Atlanta, another to Memphis, another to Houston. Those cars will be put in trains and interchanged until they get to the freight houses in those cities, sealed all the way. Cars for that use can be pulled from the local empties using car interchange rules.

However, they also have a package headed to Dime Box Texas and Toad Suck Arkansas. Those will be consolidated into cars headed to the Houston and Little Rock areas. Branch line trains or coordinated rail-truck freight will finally deliver those packages. If those cars are not full, they may stop in St. Louis and/or Kansas City to be further sorted and consolidated. The package which left New Jersey in a Union Pacific box car might be carried by 3 different box cars before it arrived at its destination. Most transload facilities received cars all day, swapped packages from one car to another, then were pulled around 6-7:00p to head to their next destination hopefully to arrive by 6:00a for delivery the next day. At a freight or transload house, every spot on every track had a designated destination, and everyone on the dock knew that system – it was the same every day. If a box car loaded with mixed destination freight arrived from Chicago and was spotted at the New Orleans spot, it will be unloaded and then reloaded with packages headed to New Orleans. No one cared who the home road was for that car – it was in the New Orleans spot, to New Orleans it would go. Had it come in 30 minutes later, it might be in the Chicago spot headed back to Chicago. About 5p the freight house will close to new freight shipments, all the cars will be finished up, loads braced, and then the house will be pulled pretty much at one time, the cars taken to the yard and put on trains. Crews would not normally pull one car, then come back and pull another, etc. Remember the cars were often spotted 4-5 cars wide with their doors lined up and bridges placed between the cars to facilitate  movement from one car to another. You did not come and pull a car from the middle of that.  The freight house tracks would sit empty most of the night as new arrivals came on the overnight trains.  

Look at the photos sent yesterday of Chicago. Freight houses were everywhere in the downtown area.

 

 

J. Stephen Sandifer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Allen Cain
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 8:42 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Thanks for all who contributed.

 

I am clear on the "Express" cars traveling around about anywhere but not so clear on the LCL cars.

 

Am I to understand that LCL FREIGHT cars would have TYPICALLY stayed on the home roads but COULD have strayed to other roads?

 

Thanks again,

 

Allen Cain
Re: Express Car Movements

Steve SANDIFER
 

And the Toad Suck ferry.

 

 

J. Stephen Sandifer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 5:29 PM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Friends,

 

This has nothing to do with freight cars, but Toad Suck, Arkansas, that Jim mentioned is a real place (sort of). The minister who married Sally and myself was from there, and his mother still lived in nearby Booger Hollow. Toad Suck is noted for the Toad Suck Dam and Locks. 

 

Yours Aye,

 

 

Garth Groff 🦆

 

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM James SANDIFER <steve.sandifer@...> wrote:

LCL freight cars would roam the country just like any other freight car. Let’s say you are a mfg. in New Jersey. You take your stuff to the freight house. The freight house has enough stuff from various senders to ship to Los Angeles to fill two cars, so they do.  Another car may head to Atlanta, another to Memphis, another to Houston. Those cars will be put in trains and interchanged until they get to the freight houses in those cities, sealed all the way. Cars for that use can be pulled from the local empties using car interchange rules.

However, they also have a package headed to Dime Box Texas and Toad Suck Arkansas. Those will be consolidated into cars headed to the Houston and Little Rock areas. Branch line trains or coordinated rail-truck freight will finally deliver those packages. If those cars are not full, they may stop in St. Louis and/or Kansas City to be further sorted and consolidated. The package which left New Jersey in a Union Pacific box car might be carried by 3 different box cars before it arrived at its destination. Most transload facilities received cars all day, swapped packages from one car to another, then were pulled around 6-7:00p to head to their next destination hopefully to arrive by 6:00a for delivery the next day. At a freight or transload house, every spot on every track had a designated destination, and everyone on the dock knew that system – it was the same every day. If a box car loaded with mixed destination freight arrived from Chicago and was spotted at the New Orleans spot, it will be unloaded and then reloaded with packages headed to New Orleans. No one cared who the home road was for that car – it was in the New Orleans spot, to New Orleans it would go. Had it come in 30 minutes later, it might be in the Chicago spot headed back to Chicago. About 5p the freight house will close to new freight shipments, all the cars will be finished up, loads braced, and then the house will be pulled pretty much at one time, the cars taken to the yard and put on trains. Crews would not normally pull one car, then come back and pull another, etc. Remember the cars were often spotted 4-5 cars wide with their doors lined up and bridges placed between the cars to facilitate  movement from one car to another. You did not come and pull a car from the middle of that.  The freight house tracks would sit empty most of the night as new arrivals came on the overnight trains.  

Look at the photos sent yesterday of Chicago. Freight houses were everywhere in the downtown area.

 

 

J. Stephen Sandifer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Allen Cain
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 8:42 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Thanks for all who contributed.

 

I am clear on the "Express" cars traveling around about anywhere but not so clear on the LCL cars.

 

Am I to understand that LCL FREIGHT cars would have TYPICALLY stayed on the home roads but COULD have strayed to other roads?

 

Thanks again,

 

Allen Cain
Re: Express Car Movements

brianleppert@att.net
 

Nelson Moyer asked if a Mopac Eagle car ever made it to SoCal?  At least one got to Northern California.  On the back cover of Pacific News magazine #38, Oct. 1964 is a photo of MP 4??12, a 40' car in blue and grey Eagle Merchandise Service paint.  Photographed by Earl Spencer in 1956 on the Almanor Railroad, a short line that connected to the WP.

Brian Leppert
Carson City, NV
Re: Photo: Wrecked ATSF End Door Boxcar 6979 (1953)

mopacfirst
 

One theory -- the car was spotted right where it was photographed, on a siding with a bumper which looks like it could be a wheel-stop type (acting only on the wheels of the leading axle).  Switcher shoved a car into it, with some momentum, perhaps the GTW car shown.  Couplers overrode, the moving car's coupler punched the door in, and the restraining force was acting on the opposite truck, rather than the coupler like some other types of bumper would have done.  The impact caused the frame to yield at the two weak points, either side of the door openings, while the sides kept the roof and underbody relatively square in the areas where the sides were located.  Note that the stiffener under the door does not extend past the door openings on either side.  Doors probably fell off in the impact, and they probably were picked up right away if they were fouling the adjacent track.

Great failure photo.

Ron Merrick
Re: New Parts From National Scale Car

Ryan Mendell
 

Sorry my fat fingers hit the wrong button I meant to make a private reply 

Ryan
Re: New Parts From National Scale Car

Ryan Mendell
 

I can make some up for you.  How many do you want?  


On Aug 1, 2020, at 6:14 PM, mel perry <clipper841@...> wrote:


ryan:
are you going to rerun S100?
thanks
mel perry

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 1:27 PM Ryan Mendell <ryan.mendell@...> wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]

New Parts have been added to the National Scale Car Line

Tatumn Slack Adjusters and Tatumn Brake Steps

Further detail can be found at 

nationalscalecar.com

Ryan Mendell

Re: Express Car Movements

hubert mask
 

Being an Arkie myself there defiantly is such a place.   We called it toad suck ferry.

Hubert Mask
Mask Island Decals Inc.


On Aug 1, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> wrote:

Friends,

This has nothing to do with freight cars, but Toad Suck, Arkansas, that Jim mentioned is a real place (sort of). The minister who married Sally and myself was from there, and his mother still lived in nearby Booger Hollow. Toad Suck is noted for the Toad Suck Dam and Locks. 

Yours Aye,


Garth Groff 🦆

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM James SANDIFER <steve.sandifer@...> wrote:

LCL freight cars would roam the country just like any other freight car. Let’s say you are a mfg. in New Jersey. You take your stuff to the freight house. The freight house has enough stuff from various senders to ship to Los Angeles to fill two cars, so they do.  Another car may head to Atlanta, another to Memphis, another to Houston. Those cars will be put in trains and interchanged until they get to the freight houses in those cities, sealed all the way. Cars for that use can be pulled from the local empties using car interchange rules.

However, they also have a package headed to Dime Box Texas and Toad Suck Arkansas. Those will be consolidated into cars headed to the Houston and Little Rock areas. Branch line trains or coordinated rail-truck freight will finally deliver those packages. If those cars are not full, they may stop in St. Louis and/or Kansas City to be further sorted and consolidated. The package which left New Jersey in a Union Pacific box car might be carried by 3 different box cars before it arrived at its destination. Most transload facilities received cars all day, swapped packages from one car to another, then were pulled around 6-7:00p to head to their next destination hopefully to arrive by 6:00a for delivery the next day. At a freight or transload house, every spot on every track had a designated destination, and everyone on the dock knew that system – it was the same every day. If a box car loaded with mixed destination freight arrived from Chicago and was spotted at the New Orleans spot, it will be unloaded and then reloaded with packages headed to New Orleans. No one cared who the home road was for that car – it was in the New Orleans spot, to New Orleans it would go. Had it come in 30 minutes later, it might be in the Chicago spot headed back to Chicago. About 5p the freight house will close to new freight shipments, all the cars will be finished up, loads braced, and then the house will be pulled pretty much at one time, the cars taken to the yard and put on trains. Crews would not normally pull one car, then come back and pull another, etc. Remember the cars were often spotted 4-5 cars wide with their doors lined up and bridges placed between the cars to facilitate  movement from one car to another. You did not come and pull a car from the middle of that.  The freight house tracks would sit empty most of the night as new arrivals came on the overnight trains.  

Look at the photos sent yesterday of Chicago. Freight houses were everywhere in the downtown area.

 

 

J. Stephen Sandifer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Allen Cain
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 8:42 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Thanks for all who contributed.

 

I am clear on the "Express" cars traveling around about anywhere but not so clear on the LCL cars.

 

Am I to understand that LCL FREIGHT cars would have TYPICALLY stayed on the home roads but COULD have strayed to other roads?

 

Thanks again,

 

Allen Cain
Re: Express Car Movements

Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
 

Friends,

This has nothing to do with freight cars, but Toad Suck, Arkansas, that Jim mentioned is a real place (sort of). The minister who married Sally and myself was from there, and his mother still lived in nearby Booger Hollow. Toad Suck is noted for the Toad Suck Dam and Locks. 

Yours Aye,


Garth Groff 🦆

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM James SANDIFER <steve.sandifer@...> wrote:

LCL freight cars would roam the country just like any other freight car. Let’s say you are a mfg. in New Jersey. You take your stuff to the freight house. The freight house has enough stuff from various senders to ship to Los Angeles to fill two cars, so they do.  Another car may head to Atlanta, another to Memphis, another to Houston. Those cars will be put in trains and interchanged until they get to the freight houses in those cities, sealed all the way. Cars for that use can be pulled from the local empties using car interchange rules.

However, they also have a package headed to Dime Box Texas and Toad Suck Arkansas. Those will be consolidated into cars headed to the Houston and Little Rock areas. Branch line trains or coordinated rail-truck freight will finally deliver those packages. If those cars are not full, they may stop in St. Louis and/or Kansas City to be further sorted and consolidated. The package which left New Jersey in a Union Pacific box car might be carried by 3 different box cars before it arrived at its destination. Most transload facilities received cars all day, swapped packages from one car to another, then were pulled around 6-7:00p to head to their next destination hopefully to arrive by 6:00a for delivery the next day. At a freight or transload house, every spot on every track had a designated destination, and everyone on the dock knew that system – it was the same every day. If a box car loaded with mixed destination freight arrived from Chicago and was spotted at the New Orleans spot, it will be unloaded and then reloaded with packages headed to New Orleans. No one cared who the home road was for that car – it was in the New Orleans spot, to New Orleans it would go. Had it come in 30 minutes later, it might be in the Chicago spot headed back to Chicago. About 5p the freight house will close to new freight shipments, all the cars will be finished up, loads braced, and then the house will be pulled pretty much at one time, the cars taken to the yard and put on trains. Crews would not normally pull one car, then come back and pull another, etc. Remember the cars were often spotted 4-5 cars wide with their doors lined up and bridges placed between the cars to facilitate  movement from one car to another. You did not come and pull a car from the middle of that.  The freight house tracks would sit empty most of the night as new arrivals came on the overnight trains.  

Look at the photos sent yesterday of Chicago. Freight houses were everywhere in the downtown area.

 

 

J. Stephen Sandifer

 

From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Allen Cain
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2020 8:42 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Express Car Movements

 

Thanks for all who contributed.

 

I am clear on the "Express" cars traveling around about anywhere but not so clear on the LCL cars.

 

Am I to understand that LCL FREIGHT cars would have TYPICALLY stayed on the home roads but COULD have strayed to other roads?

 

Thanks again,

 

Allen Cain
Re: Photo: Wrecked ATSF End Door Boxcar 6979 (1953)

John Holmes
 

That would be an interesting model?

John Holmes

On Aug 1, 2020, at 12:43 PM, mel perry <clipper841@...> wrote:


that would be an interesting story?
mel perry


On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 11:44 AM Bob Chaparro via groups.io <chiefbobbb=verizon.net@groups.io> wrote:

Photo: Wrecked ATSF End Door Boxcar 6979 (1953)

Courtesy of Steve Crise, a Jack Whitmeyer photo from the Pacific Railroad Society Museum archives of a wrecked Santa Fe automobile boxcar at Colton, CA.

This was a Class Fe-23 boxcar (number series 6786-6999), one of 214 former Fe-S cars rebuilt by the Topeka Shops in 1941. The Fe-S automobile boxcars were built in 1928.

Pacific Railroad Society Museum website:

http://www.pacificrailroadsociety.org/PRS_Museum.html

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

<ATSF_6979_Wreck__Jack_Whitmeyer.JPG>
Re: New Parts From National Scale Car

mel perry
 

ryan:
are you going to rerun S100?
thanks
mel perry

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 1:27 PM Ryan Mendell <ryan.mendell@...> wrote:

[Edited Message Follows]

New Parts have been added to the National Scale Car Line

Tatumn Slack Adjusters and Tatumn Brake Steps

Further detail can be found at 

nationalscalecar.com

Ryan Mendell

Re: Express Car Movements

mel perry
 

interesting,  that even back then espee
& atsf, had the same time schedule, to
the bay area, even though atsf had a
longer route, were all of atsf trains run
on a "hot shot" schedule even back then?
mel perry

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 11:35 AM George Eichelberger <geichelberger@...> wrote:
Here is a cover letter and the first two, of sixteen, pages from the August, 1949 Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry “Package Car Service” Bulletin in the SRHA archives.

The term “package car” appears to have been used, at least in the Eastern US, almost universally for shipments that were not using an LCL tariff for loads going to more than one destination or consignee. Pages two through sixteen show package car routes out of Chicago to locations in the US and Canada.

Although I cannot locate a note confirming, the first entry for a route in “VIA” column is obviously the originating Chicago railroad.

There are multiple copies of the “Bulletin" in the SRHA archives in addition to several version of the “Merchandise Car Directory” published by the Southern Railway. I expect all major railroads had similar lists or publications. An article on package cars will be in an upcoming issue of “TIES”, the SRHA magazine.

The Southern chose not to have box cars marked for the service. As Atlanta was the largest source of out bound cars, the logic was there would always be empties in Atlanta to load at the three freight stations (plus Sears Roebuck) so having specially painted cars return empty was not efficient.

Ike
FS: Undecorated 40' Boxcar Kits

Roger Huber <trainpainter@...>
 

I have the following Mint HO scale undecorated boxcar kits for sale. They are all 40' unassembled and undecorated KITS.

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Please ask any questions OFF LINE!
Roger Huber
trainpainter@...
Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] now NYC depressed well flat

Kenneth Montero
 

Quality Craft made a kit for this 61' well-hole flat car, in HO (1977 Prestige kit). The Chesapeake & Ohio version was kit no. 333, and the New York Central version was kit no. 334.  

The kit was unusual in that it contained all the parts for a pair of sprung 6-wheel Buckeye trucks except the wheel-axle sets. Quality Craft recommended the Athearn wheel set. I tried the Kadee wheel sets, but the axles may be a bit too short for this truck. I will have to measure an Athearn wheel set to check its length. This car has weight, as the end platforms are cast white metal.

As I discovered later, the trick to building a wood kit (especially this one) to simulate metal is to seal the exposed wood parts with sanding sealer, then smooth it with steel wool until the wood grain disappears. In my experience, the first coat of sanding sealer should be sanded down with 00 grade steel wool. The second and any further coats of sanding sealer should be sanded with 0000 steel wool until the wood grain disappears and the surface is absolutely slick.  I forgot to do this with the one that I built (guess where the grain shows), so I bought another copy of the kit to "try again"

A number of modelers are now substituting styrene strips and moldings in place of the wood parts whenever possible to get away from having to seal the wood parts. That works as long as the kit does not have any wood moldings that are not duplicated in plastic. I don't know if making a resin casting using the final shape of the wood as the master (and sanding the resin casting) would be a work-around that issue.

Ken Montero

On 08/01/2020 8:56 AM mopacfirst <ron.merrick@...> wrote:


The NYC 498996 is a pretty standard GSI flat, except I'm not sure what's going on at the far end of the car in this photo (the end toward the boxcar).  The body casting has an overhang along its entire length, so it looks like something was welded on here to bring the surface flush with the top edge of the car, for a few feet adjacent to the left end.

Ron Merrick

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