We look forward to seeing all of you O scale modelers at the show

Attending dealers and table holders are listed below.



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Once again our train show is fast approaching.

If your friends don't get this please pass it along.

Saturday August 7th at the Strasburg PA Fire Company

Located at 203 West Franklin street in Strasburg PA 17579

We are having our mid summer Swap meet and train show.

Doors open to the general public at 9:00 AM

Time 9:am to 1 pm

Admission $5. Wives and children under 17 free

Active military with ID FREE

Amish Style Cooking

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Table Holders will have a full table of merchandise until 1:00PM no early
packing is allowed

Dealers attending are listed below;



Allegheny Scale Models - Jack Mc Garry

Baldwin Forge and Machine - Joe Foehrkolb

Bob Jones Models - Bob Jones

Crusader Rail Service - Ray Kaminsky

Custom Bench Work - Tom Thorp

GREAT DECALS - Bill Mosteller

Just 2 Rails - Mike Rahilly

Mullet River Models - Glenn Guerra

Nickel Plate Models - David Vaughn

O Scale Trains Magazine - Joe Giannovario

Peterboro Railroad On30 Supply- John Weigel

RY Models - Rich Yoder

Sunset / Golden Gate Models - Bob Heil

V&W Hobbies - Karl Geffchman

White Elephant table - Proceeds for the North Haledon Model Railroad club



Table holders



Allen Landis

Bob / Karen Lavezzi

John Dunn

George Eshbach

Tom Mapes

Roger Pasquale

Brian Scace

Tom Shore

Jim Sycks

Attalee Taylor

Rich Randall

Jim Hawk

George Peckman

John Blanda

Drew McCann - Cherry Valley Model Railroad Club

William Truscott

Walter Maier

Michael Sell

Robert Croston

Charles Getscher

Mac Cewan

Bruce Achman

Bruce Mohn

Chuck Ostroff

Joe Hultay

John Hutnick



SHOW PROMOTERS

John Dunn 609-432-2871

Rich Yoder 484-256-4068





Sincerely,

Rich Yoder

The GN had a large number of arch bar truck equipped box cars and flats in MOW service still by merger time in 1970.

Staffan Ehnbom

On Aug 1, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Andy Cich wrote:

I am building an assortment of Sunshine Swift 2500, 5200, and 6700
series
reefers. Some will have vertical brake staffs, and some will have
powered
hand brakes.

I have found some photos of 5200 series cars with Miner hand brakes.

For the 2500 and 6700 series, I haven't found any B end photos of
these cars
with powered hand brakes. What would be appropriate for these cars?

Andy,
Photos of 2578, 2768, and 2976 show vertical staff hand brakes, all
from Bob's Photo. In case this is of interest, 5446 had an Equipco per
W.C. Whittaker photo 4-54. 5423 had a vertical staff hand brake and
5742 had an Ajax per photos in Gene Green's Refrigerator Car Color
Guide. I don't have any photos of 6700-series that show the hand brake.
Regards,
Ed Hawkins

I am building an assortment of Sunshine Swift 2500, 5200, and 6700 series
reefers. Some will have vertical brake staffs, and some will have powered
hand brakes.

I have found some photos of 5200 series cars with Miner hand brakes.

For the 2500 and 6700 series, I haven't found any B end photos of these cars
with powered hand brakes. What would be appropriate for these cars?


Thanks,

Andy Cich

Cars with archbar trucks and "K" brakes were interchanged between the Canadian railways freely into the 1960's. Some were stencilled "This car not to be loaded for destinations in the US".

Steve Lucas.

The August News report from Model Railroad Hobbyist eZine is now available
free at _www.model-railroad-hobbyist.com/mrh_news_online/aug-2010_
(http://www.model-railroad-hobbyist.com/mrh_news_online/aug-2010)

Richard Bale

Good Evening,

Let's change colors.

I have a Chooch Ultra Scale kit of the MKT single sheathed car in Sloan Yellow:

http://www.choochenterprises.com/html/814_mkt_katy_dble_box_car_yell.html

Shorpy has a Jack Delano Kodachrome of a similar car (not 7/7 ribs tho like the Chooch car) in Sloan Yellow in Galewood in 1943:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/704?size=_original

What sayeth STMFC about the color of the Shorpy car? Could it be Sloan yellow that has faded white and took on road grime in that short of a time since the car would have been repainted?

Or is it color shift or correction of the original?

Any and all help is appreciated!

Thanks,

Rob Mondichak

Thanks Tim. I'm feeling better already.

I am astonished to learn that 'Aaarch' is not in the dictionary nor is 'Aargh' which was the word I really intended to use.

Gene

--- In STMFC@..., MOFWCABOOSE@... wrote:

I can't speak on the freight car trucks, but arch bar trucks persisted for decades after the ban, under nonrevenue equipment that did not go off-line, and Fox trucks could also be seen under work equipment on a few railroads like the B&M. Even revenue cars, such as the "waycars" operated by the Maryland & Pennsylvania, had arch bars since these cars never left home rails. And some cabooses also had them, usually on short lines where slow speed operation was the norm, but also on some class one roads like the DM&IR.

Until the first of the International Car Co. cabooses arrived in 1966 IIRC, the entire Soo Line caboose fleet rode on archbar trucks, either all steel rigid diamond archbar trucks equipped with leaf springs, or swing-motion archbar trucks with wood transoms.

During the same period most of the Soo's work equipment did NOT have archbar trucks, but only because those cars were still in revenue service when archbars were banned from interchange, so the cars were upgraded to Andrews trucks, and kept those when demoted to work service in the fifties, which they kept until retirement in the seventies and eighties.

Dennis

I can't speak on the freight car trucks, but arch bar trucks persisted for decades after the ban, under nonrevenue equipment that did not go off-line, and Fox trucks could also be seen under work equipment on a few railroads like the B&M. Even revenue cars, such as the "waycars" operated by the Maryland & Pennsylvania, had arch bars since these cars never left home rails. And some cabooses also had them, usually on short lines where slow speed operation was the norm, but also on some class one roads like the DM&IR.

John C. La Rue, Jr.
Bonita Springs, FL

Listers,

Looking for a 40ton truck; who makes the accepted best?

MofW inquiry, between 1950 - 1955 would the use of archbar trucks still be in use by class 1 RR's for maint. cars; and fox truck for shop cars that never go ouot on the main.

Fred Freitas

Clark Propst wrote:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc-elywrk-jrc.jpg

In the above photo it looks like the flooring has been replaced in the

doorway of the NYC box car. Unpainted wood?

Clark,

I would not find this unusual because after the introduction of loading
with forklifts the flooring by the doors took a real beating. Many cars
receive steel plates to cover this area. I know the B&ORR did this as
drawings exist showing these perforated steel plates.

Bob Witt

It's ok, Gene. Sit down... take a deep breath... open one of your
Railway Prototype Cyclopedias and start reading... Now doesn't that
feel better?

Tim O'Connor

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc-elywrk-jrc.jpg

In the above photo it looks like the flooring has been replaced in the doorway of the NYC box car. Unpainted wood?
Clark Propst

I did not see the date until I went back to preview the wreck photos in the fallen flags grouping. Considering the amount of damage this drag was probably doing track speed at the time of the derailment which on that Division was probably 50 MPH for freight in 1950.

Hard to tell what caused it without the wreck report by the committee that investigated it. Committees were usually made up by supervisors from each of the railroad departments: track, mechanical, transportation and signals.

Having worked in the field as an operator, when something like this occurs, all you can do is hope that the cars do not drop into your lap before the whole shebang gets stopped. Most cases, it is safer to stay put than to try to get out and make a run for it! If you attempt to leave, there is a good chance that you could end up under one of the cars!

Tom Olsen
7 Boundary Road, West Branch
Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479
(302) 738-4292
tmolsen@...

The location of this wreck is given away in the title: Elyria Ohio on the Toledo Division. Unfortunately, there is no date!

Tom Olsen
7 Boundary Road, West Branch
Newark, Delaware, 19711-7479
(302) 738-4292
tmolsen@...

My thoughs exactly :-)  Todd Horton




________________________________
From: pullmanboss <tcmadden@q.com>
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Sat, July 31, 2010 11:16:19 PM
Subject: [STMFC] Re: NYC wreck (was Black Car Cement on roofs)

 
Tim O'Connor:

How would you have liked to watch this whole wreck from the vantage of
that crossing guard's tower? :-)

Probably would have required a change of underwear afterward.

Tom Madden

Tim O'Connor:

How would you have liked to watch this whole wreck from the vantage of
that crossing guard's tower? :-)

Probably would have required a change of underwear afterward.

Tom Madden

The GATX tank car looks like it would be an easy kitbash from
the Red Caboose welded 10,000 gallon model -- it even has the
squared off handrails. The number looks like 76375 or something
close to it...

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc-elywrk-grc.jpg

Tim O'

When scrolling down to find these photos, there is another set of wreck photos by the same contributor taken at Amherst OH showing several freight cars.

Robert Bogie
Melbourne, Australia