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Um, why would a car designed to haul something that is very dangerous when wet have _windows_? Scott Chatfield

By D. Scott Chatfield · #156476 ·

The Great Northern bought nearly 20,000 40 foot, DS boxcars starting in 1901. Various versions have been modeled in various media and scales by various companies. Were general arrangement drawings

By Schleigh Mike · #156475 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

I remember my dad talking about "Carbide lamps." Long ago enough that I can't recall the context or what kind of lamps, but the miner's lamps seems right. Still, boxcar loads of that for

By Schuyler Larrabee · #156474 ·

Re: Athearn blue box gon

Awesome, thanks! I didn't know Trainlife had come back to life! For along time it seemed to be unavailable... Tim O'

By Tim O'Connor · #156473 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Group, Calcium carbide is the substance for making acetylene. Water plus calcium carbide yields acetylene. Acetylene is unstable in high pressure oxygen and, therefore, containers of calcium

By lars svanevik · #156472 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Before portable electric light plants and generators, I believe they used calcium carbide to provide lighting at derailments. Dave Staplin

By staplindave · #156471 ·

Re: Ath blue box gon

To add to what others said - that PARTICULAR PM prototype gondola numberbelonged to a 52'6" drop end gondola built by Greenville in 1944, i.e. theProto 2000 gondola. Someone mentioned the DT&I

By Tim O'Connor · #156470 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

By lars svanevik · #156469 ·

Re: only 3 side ladders on ACF double dome tank?

Many thanks Al! Rather than building another one it now seems that I have to remove a ladder :-) Thanks again and best regards Johannes Gesendet: Montag, 14. Mai 2018 um 22:57 Uhr Von:

By vapeurchapelon · #156468 ·

Re: Paint color for inside model stock cars

Cars were lime-washed between trips in early years to disinfect them, but this was banned (sometime between the wars I believe) as it injured the animals. In later years they were washed out; after

By Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton · #156467 ·

Re: Athearn blue box gon

Only the November-December 1982 PrototypeModeler is available on Trainlife at this time. http://magazine.trainlife.com/ptm_1982_11/ The article begins on page 12. Eric

By Eric Hansmann · #156466 ·

Re: Athearn blue box gon

Ben Hom wrote: Two very nice articles, creating a whole bunch of interesting gondolas. They were in the September-October and the November-December issues of PM in 1982. I built a couple of them

By Tony Thompson · #156465 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

On 5/15/2018 1:08 PM, David Soderblom wrote: When I was in Korea around 69/70 they had small containers? that used it for just that, welding. Saw lots of them.

By Jon Miller <atsfus@...> · #156464 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

mea culpa my bad I reversed the effect Rich Orr

By Richard Orr <suvcworr@...> · #156463 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Group, Calcium ion, in combination with bicarbonate and carbonate ions. is the the species that causes water to be "hard". Water that contains high concentration of calcium ion, and bicarbonate or

By lars svanevik · #156462 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Thinking about the interior photo, and the racks on the floor. The floor isn't necessarily dry, and you really don't want calcium carbide getting wet. (That's how acetylene is generated from it.) So

By al_brown03 · #156461 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

What about use for portable flood lights at the site of a derailment? Steve Hile

By Steve and Barb Hile · #156460 ·

Re: Athearn blue box gon

Thank you Ben for the link. I've downloaded and saved the DT&I Mill gon project pdf by Greg Martin. Nice future project.

By Fred Jansz · #156459 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Calcium carbide is indeed used to generate acetylene. Most common use is/was in miners’ helmets. It releases C2H2 when mixed with water, so a small reservoir would drip onto the carbide. I very

By David Soderblom · #156458 ·

Re: Boxcar identification help requested

Calcium carbonate to treat water. Much of the water available along the PRR mainline was hard which cause a buildup of deposits in the boiler tubes. Track pans especially had water treatment

By Richard Orr <suvcworr@...> · #156457 ·

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