A 2-part article in Volumes 1 & 2 according to the handy index at the RPC
site,
http://www.rpcycpub.com/RP_CYC_Article_Index.pdf

Jim Hayes
Portland Oregon
www.sunshinekits.com


On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Gene <bierglaeser@...> wrote:

--- In STMFC@... <STMFC%40yahoogroups.com>, cepropst@
wrote:

There is an article on the Frisco cars in an early RP cyc. #2-3?

Sunshine offers the correct kit. I think in both wood and steel

sheathing?

Clark Propst

Clark,
You have touched upon a couple of my shortcomings.

First, I haven't created an overall index to my RP Cycs but I really
should. The RP Cys are some of the best reference material in my collection.


Second, I have yet to assemble my first Sunshine or Westerfield kit. I
suffer, apparently, from resin-angst.

Actually, to some extent or another, I am moving away from accuracy and
fidelity to prototype in favor of ready-to-run and durability. If I ever get
my building erected -25' x 60' building is on hand but $6,000-$7,000 for
concrete foundation is not - I don't want visiting engineers or conductors
unintentionally damaging a resin car while rerailing it.

Gene Green

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I am not sure what this thread's direction has to do with freight cars.

Bill Welch

Tom, the internet is worldwide. What can Congress do if someone in
another country decides to copy the web site and host it off shore?
This is already widely done -- If I felt like it I could go right now
to any number of web sites and download complete copies of recent
Hollywood movies. Every 12 year old in America knows this...

Tim


At 10/3/2010 03:35 AM Sunday, you wrote:

Tim,

That is debatable! I think that is one of the internet issues that will come up before congress some time in the spring!''Tom

for a 50-ton truck, and their spring detail represents the 5 coil grouping of a 50-ton A-3 truck. These are spaced in a 2-3-2 pattern, with a visual gap

Tim,

That is debatable! I think that is one of the internet issues that will come up before congress some time in the spring!''Tom

The Pullman-Standard builder's photo from this lot just happened to >be 44324. The car had A-3 Ride Control trucks.
Regards,
Ed Hawkins

This last Saturday afternoon I was at the Minneapolis Public Library collecting some data for a friend. While paging through the collection of Railway Ages, in one of them , Vol. 82, Jan-June 1927, page 1208, I happened to come across this article about a CMStP&P boxcar with 12 ft side door openings.

I have placed a picture of this car from the article in the photos area. It is waiting for the moderators approval - look for CMStP&P PC&M 50 XM

I thought this looked like an interesting car. Note the ladder set up on the right side. Glancing through the article I noticed one paragraph, the fifth paragraph.

The fifth paragraph told of "The steel center posts are fitted with wood fillers and have an automatic locking attachment. The grain door nailing strips at the door post fillers have been especially designed so as to fit flush with the lining and thus avoid damage to the lading or annoyance to the shippers when loading automobiles. Possible difficulty is also avoided when these cars are loaded with grain or some similar commodity for which scrapers are used for unloading purposes."

The car, 271199, is a fifty foot SS car, w/double doors both sides, staggered. Hutchins roof, Howe truss side framing with a
quite visually apparent 9 inch rolled steel channel under the door opening, that in concert with a 4 x 3 5/16 inch channel above the
set of Youngstown pressed steel doors.

Of prior musings about double door cars being used in grain service; the above offers no proof that these ever were used in
grain service, only that these double door cars had provisions
for such use built into them at time of manufacture, and they could have been.

In concert with this, there are several interesting articles on the movement of Canadian grain in the 1928 issues of Railway Age. It would appear in that time frame, a large amount of grain moved through US ports. New York, NY, getting the principle export volume, Boston, Portland, ME, and even Newport News, VA. were other ports of note.

Would anyone be able to fill in a further background on this series of car?
And -was it still around in that form in 1953 ?

And one last question, are any models of this car available in HO?
Jim Dick - St. Paul

Now all I need to do is figure out a likely origin for my molasses. Sugar beets manufactured in the Midwest?

"Jeff Wilson's Industries Along the Tracks 3" shows a 1959 map of sugar beet manufacturing facilities in the U.S.

Victor Baird

Fort Wayne, Indiana