main@RealSTMFC.groups.io

Gene Deimling wrote: Gene, I can send you such a photo from RIchard Hendrickson's collection. Tony Thompson tony@...

By Tony Thompson · #169809 ·

The Gibson car you cited in your email was built by Standard Tank Car Company. It was a single compartment insulated 8,000 gallon car. Southern Car & Foundry produced HO kits STC cars but not with

By Gene Deimling · #169808 ·

Re: Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

What was the date of the infamous KANSAS CITY FLOOD in the 1950's?? I recall that immediately following the floods there was an ICC car service directive regarding stock cars

By Tim O'Connor · #169807 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Dick Darn it, you finally figured it out! I've been doing it for years. You'd be amazed what I've been able to squeeze out of the "fact hoarders". ;-) -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling,

By Tim O'Connor · #169806 ·

Re: Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

I have evidence of a PRR stockcar, either a K7 or K7A, being on the MSTL in Iowa. PRR 135263 was loaded with cattle at So St Paul, and shipped to Dallas Center IA on the MSTL, arriving on 8-8-1945.

By Douglas Harding · #169805 ·

Re: Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

The other possibility, pointed out by that photo of loading brick into a stockcar, is a non-livestock backhaul load. While brick typically didn't move far enough to get a PRR car on the SP, cut stone

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #169804 ·

Re: Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

David, Certainly, if you understand stock car movements. Stock cars were generally used to transport livestock to market and that is well understood; however, stock movements were also used to move

By Greg Martin · #169803 ·

Re: Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

Dave, Never say never… UP and SP stock cars made their way onto PRR rails with some frequency. That is likely due to a shortage of cars at points like Chicago since through shipment of livestock did

By Bruce Smith · #169802 ·

Correction PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks?

Correction- A friend has asked if PRR stock cars would have been seen on Southern Pacific or Union Pacific tracks. I would have thought no, but thought I’d check with you guys first, before

By David North · #169801 ·

PRR Stock cars on Southern Pacific tracks?

A friend has asked if PRR stock cars would have been seen on Southern Pacific tracks. I would have thought no, but thought I’d check with you guys first, before replying to him. He models

By David North · #169800 ·

Re: Union Tank Car Co. UTLX 17441 a “squat”

I've seen a two-compartment tank with a half-length dome platform on each end (one on each side). Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

By al_brown03 · #169799 ·

Re: Union Tank Car Co. UTLX 17441 a “squat”

Dennis Storzek wrote: I don't know whether the two walks were ever REQUIRED. Ed Kaminski told me that nearly every detail of the TANK (not the underframe) was a buyer choice, though of course

By Tony Thompson · #169798 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Rob Mondichak wrote: The UP first painted stock cars yellow (with aluminum roof and ends) in early 1947, when they inaugurated a fast livestock service between Salt Lake and Los Angeles. The

By Tony Thompson · #169797 ·

Re: Union Tank Car Co. UTLX 17441 a "squat"

There is a section in the UTLX book on dome platforms and ladders that Dave and I discussed a lot before completing it. It appears that, prior to 1930, UTLX tank cars provided just a single dome

By Steve and Barb Hile · #169796 ·

Re: Photo: BAR Reefer

It is 8264. Charlie Slater Sent from Outlook

By charles slater · #169795 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Tim, Care to give me a page number in Terry's book? I can't find your data in it. I did notice that even the diagram in Terry's book (p. 145) for the S-40-12 class lists both AY and FCR side Color

By Dick Harley · #169794 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Thank you gents. We're O scalers so some of us don't get out as much as we should. I'll mention this all to the gentleman who asked the original question and he will most likely have to apply the

By Rob M. · #169793 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Same source - Terry Metcalfe's UP freight cars book. 1st edition, published 1989. The comments in the book seem anecdotal and not all classes are covered so I take it

By Tim O'Connor · #169792 ·

Re: Union Pacific Stock Car colors - FCR to Yellow?

Tim, Where did you get the data about, "All of the S-40-12 cars were delivered in yellow." ? Or, "In 1958, the decision was made to paint NON-roller bearing stock cars freight car red so only 'high

By Dick Harley · #169791 ·

Gibson Wine Company Tank Cars

Hi Gang, The Gibson Wine Company of California leased a number of tank cars, at least single and four-compartment versions, from General American. Given its colorful paint scheme featuring a

By G.J. Irwin · #169790 ·

Messages