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Re: Current events
Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Andy Carlson wrote:
I, as someone with an interest in Steam era freight cars and the Southern Pacific, am wondering if there is anything going on that might be of interest this weekend. Thanks in advance,If you mean the SP Society's San Luis Obispo convention this weekend, we had 108 of the new Tangent SP gondolas (Class G-70-12) delivered, and they sold out in barely three hours. Superb models and precisely correct for the SP cars. The new WrightTRAK SP caboose, classes C-40-1 and C-40-3, was exhibited though not quite yet available for sale, and there was considerable interest in it, too. It's a beautiful kit. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: SLSF XM 18050
Ed Hawkins
On Oct 31, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Gene wrote:
Can anyone confirm that the whole series that included SLSF XM 18050Gene, According to the Frisco diagram for 18050-18549, all 500 cars had Ajax hand brakes. Regards, Ed Hawkins
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Re: NYC box car that went far...
Robert kirkham
Thanks for pointing out this interesting photo Steve. It had certainly travelled far! It is suprising how infrequently one sees a photo of a US railway boxcar spotted in an out-of-the way spot like Houston, although the fact it sits on the CNR main line may be the explanation. The pity is we can't tell if it is stopping here to load or unload, or just set off as bad order. I expect someone familiar with the trackage at Houston would have a better sense of what is going on.
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My own informal studies of off-line cars in the Vancouver area from the 10's through 50's has led my to conclude that NYC boxcars may be statistically over-represented compared to other lines. I hope to have some time to look into it in more detail in the future. But my current impression from viewing yard photos is that the PRR is hardly evident - I may have two shots showing PRR boxcars here. The UP is almost non-existent - I have one shot prior to 1950. The B&O - I think I have reference info on two cars. But NYC, I've seen several cars. It's led me to wonder whether the NYC connection to the CPR via the TH&B (or some other connection) may have had an impact, but I don't know enough to go beyond formulating the question. This is also an interesting find in light of comments on the Canadian Model Trains forum last week about the comparitive infrequency of US owned rolling stock in small town Canada during most of the steam era. Each photo of this type helps incrementally improve our sense of how things were.... Rob Kirkham Surrey, B.C.
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Re: 46 ft. Flatcars?
steve l <stevelucas3@...>
Claus--
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The CPR had quite a few of the 46' cars. 800 straight-sided cars with a "fishbelly" underframe were built by Canadian Car and Foundry in 1937, series 300000 to 300799. Train Shed Cyclopedia #46 has a general arrangement drawing of these cars on page 197, and a photo of CP 300053 on page 203, fig. 189. CN had 300 46' flat cars with "fishbelly" side sills built April/May, 1929, (Swain series C-1) in the 660200 to 660499 series. CN also had 49 46' straight side sill flat cars built in August, 1937 to the CPR design that appears in the aforementioned Train Shed Cyclopedia. (Swain series D-1) were in the 660500-6660543 series, and (Swain series D-2) were in the 660544-660548 series. CN data is from a CN Lines Vol. 5/3 article by Stafford Swain. CN Lines Vol. 5/4 had an article by Stafford on modelling these cars. Hope this helps, Steve Lucas.
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Re: NYC box car that went far...
Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Gene Green wrote:
Bruce,And Bruce said, "So what?" Are you objecting to the facts behind Bruce's response, Gene? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: [CDN-frt-cars-n-ops] 8 Hatch Canadian Reefers
steve l <stevelucas3@...>
Dale--Few of these cars were built before WWII. Both freight and express reefers were covered in an extensive series of articles in RMC a number of years back.
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Speedwitch SR Gon Kit
paulbizier <pa.bizier@...>
I'm working through the "round tuit" stack of stuff in my closet, and this is up next. Unfortunately, Ted's directions don't make any truck recommendations. Do any of our "truck experts" have suggestions for appropriate trucks?
TIA, Paul Bizier
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Naperville
seaboard_1966
We, WrightTRAK Railroad Models, would like to thank the Loftons for putting on another GREAT event. We would also like to thank them for the support of this meet over the many years that is has been going on.
We would also like to take a moment to thank all of those who stopped by our suite and our table over the course of the weekend to check out our new offerings, the M&O M53 boxcar and the new SAL lowside gon...Mandatory freight car content here....With continued support like what was show to us over the weekend you guys and the event can count on seeing us there for many more years... Thanks. Gary Wright Denis Blake The WrightTRAK Guys
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Re: [CDN-frt-cars-n-ops] 8 Hatch Canadian Reefers
devansprr
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Pete, Is there any info on when these cars were built? I looked through the '43 ORER and CP, CN, and GTW all list refeers with steel underframes and 42'6" outside length, and all of them have notes about unique characteristics (GTW was meat racks), multi-stage icing, underslung charcoal heaters, etc. They also had a 75,000 pound capacity - more than many similar sized reefers the roads had at that time. Are these the cars? I am trying to determine if they are valid WWII cars. Thanks, Dave Evans
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SLSF XM 18050
Gene <bierglaeser@...>
Can anyone confirm that the whole series that included SLSF XM 18050 was equipped with Ajax hand brakes?
Gene Green
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Re: 46 ft. Flatcars?
Jeffrey White
According to the 1954 Freight Car Diagram book for the IC, they had a number of 45 foot flat cars running yet. The diagram shows 200 numbers (6100-61199) but I have no idea how many were still running. Built in 1929 by Bett. Co.
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Re: 46 ft. Flatcars?
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi,
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Forgot to mention, in N scale, Model Power makes a car that is a good match for C&NW 42597. It has crude details, but then upgrading the details is part of the fun! - Claus
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Re: 46 ft. Flatcars?
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi Ed and List Members,
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Looking thru my TCS#46 (1931 CBC), I find photos of the following 45-46 foot flat cars: CP (number not readable) (46 foot) C&NW 42597 (46 foot) IC 61078 (45 foot) L&N 24560 (46 foot 9 1/4 in) - Claus Schlund
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Re: Overland gon ID
Jim Williams <wwww5960@...>
Thanks David, that helps a lot......Jim
________________________________ From: David North <davenorth@...> To: STMFC@... Sent: Sat, October 31, 2009 8:38:12 AM Subject: [STMFC] Re:Overland gon ID Hi all ....I just obtained a Overland 100 ton brass gondola..... The box says #70000-70031, but I can't find it in any of the SF books.....Can anyone tell me what class it is or where there are pics of it....thanks Jim W. Hi Jim, It is from the Ga-163 class, built in 1967 by the Thrall Car Co. The live list shows the class started with 32 cars, then 31 cars from 1970 -1987, then 10 cars in 1989 and one car in 1991. The live list only goes to 1991. Hope this helps. Cheers Dave North [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: Overland gon ID
David North <davenorth@...>
Hi all ....I just obtained a Overland 100 ton brass gondola.....The box says
#70000-70031, but I can't find it in any of the SF books.....Can anyone tell me what class it is or where there are pics of it....thanks Jim W. Hi Jim, It is from the Ga-163 class, built in 1967 by the Thrall Car Co. The live list shows the class started with 32 cars, then 31 cars from 1970 -1987, then 10 cars in 1989 and one car in 1991. The live list only goes to 1991. Hope this helps. Cheers Dave North
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Re: Current events
Just one point of order, not all of us outside Cicago are old timers.
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Brian Carlson, P.E.
--- On Sat, 10/31/09, pullmanboss <tgmadden@...> wrote:
From: pullmanboss <tgmadden@...> Subject: [STMFC] Re: Current events To: STMFC@... Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009, 1:24 AM I, as someone with an interest in Steam era freight cars and the Southern Pacific, am wondering if there is anything going on that might be of interest this weekend. Thanks in advance,Some old timers have gotten together in one of the Chicago suburbs, and the ones that aren't there are in a smallish college town in California just over the hill from Santa Margarita. I understand there's some former SP trackage in that area.... Tom Madden [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Overland gon ID
Jim Williams <wwww5960@...>
Hi all ....I just obtained a Overland 100 ton brass gondola.....The box says #70000-70031, but I can't find it in any of the SF books.....Can anyone tell me what class it is or where there are pics of it....thanks Jim W.
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Re: Current events
pullmanboss <tgmadden@...>
I, as someone with an interest in Steam era freight cars and the Southern Pacific, am wondering if there is anything going on that might be of interest this weekend. Thanks in advance,Some old timers have gotten together in one of the Chicago suburbs, and the ones that aren't there are in a smallish college town in California just over the hill from Santa Margarita. I understand there's some former SP trackage in that area.... Tom Madden
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Current events
Andy Carlson
I, as someone with an interest in Steam era freight cars and the Southern Pacific, am wondering if there is anything going on that might be of interest this weekend. Thanks in advance,
-Andy Carlson Ojai CA
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Train Art by Tony Howe
Allen Cain <allencain@...>
Folks,
Up front I want to say that I have NO financial or personal ties to Tony Howe. Today I received a print he produced of the Southern Railway Tennessean in 1947. This is an artist print but I had to look at it several times to convince myself that it was not a photograph. The quality is exceptional. Here is a link to his studio site where he has this print and others for various roads for sale at what I consider to be reasonable prices: http://www.msrailroads.com/Paintings4.htm From this link, you can back up into his full gallery of prints. I think that he, like many other of us, myself included, is now unemployed. He is now offering some of his Railroad prints on Ebay. This link will take you to his current listings: http://shop.ebay.com/dhbjda/m.html?_nkw= <http://shop.ebay.com/dhbjda/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p434 0> &_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 As I said, I am not connected to him in any way other than as a customer who was VERY impressed with the one example of his work which I purchased on Ebay. Allen Cain
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