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Re: Critiquing Pre-production Models?

Gee, Dennis, the problem with the "hand grenade" style of criticism is that there tends to be collateral damage, you know? I think it is much better to just say what's wrong with which models, and let

By Tim O'Connor · #83341 ·

Re: Coal car loading on "home" roads...

Chuck Wow, I find it very interesting that almost 30% of B&O's coal traffic originated offline. So much for the theory of "captive" cars... Do you have any data for coal delivered to

By Tim O'Connor · #83340 ·

Re: Roundhouse milk car (was Milk car photo)

It is pretty close to the Whiting Co. milk reefer and Overland's type B.IMHO a pretty fair model when compared to the old Roundhouse and Athearn's feeble attempts.Armand Premo

By Armand Premo · #83339 ·

Re: Atlas 40' USRA rebuild

Tim O'Connor wrote: "SLSF had more than one type of rebuild .. the 1950 ORER lumps together 127000-130499 with several subgroups -- interior heights 8'6", 8'11", 9'0", 10'0"." Not entirely true. Do

By Benjamin Hom <b.hom@...> · #83338 ·

Re: Milk car photo

GPEX 1021 is preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum, where it was occasionally used as a niftily disguised "canteen" for the steam operation. The car interior contains two tanks that fill the

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #83336 ·

Re: Coal car loading on "home" roads...

Chuck,What did Moody's report for the Rutland? Armand Premo

By Armand Premo · #83337 ·

Re: Roundhouse milk car (was Milk car photo)

Garth There were 40' wood milk tank cars, e.g. Abbotts (photo RMJ 10/1990) and GPEX/Pfaudler. Overland imported models of these (calling them Type A and Type B). I've never seen the new

By Tim O'Connor · #83335 ·

Re: Critiquing Pre-production Models?

Brian, By all means, find the last extant example of the prototype; send me its location and put me on expense account to travel out to take field measurements and photos; then come back here and

By Dennis Storzek <destorzek@...> · #83334 ·

Re: Coal car loading on "home" roads...

Not unusual to see photos with N&W, Virginian, and L&N coal cars in the C&Os Presque Isle yard. Also, you would see both N&W and C&O coal cars at T-T barge loading facilities in

By water.kresse@... · #83333 ·

Re: Atlas 40' USRA rebuild

SLSF had more than one type of rebuild .. the 1950 ORER lumps together 127000-130499 with several subgroups -- interior heights 8'6", 8'11", 9'0", 10'0". For example, Larry sent me two photos SLSF

By Tim O'Connor · #83332 ·

Re: Roundhouse milk car (was Milk car photo)

Garth, The Athearn model looks to be the spitting image of a small number of cars owned by SUPPLEE. A few of us are working on decals for that car, since the SUPPLEE MILK lettering was in red and

By Bruce Smith · #83331 ·

Re: Coal car loading on "home" roads...

Please excuse my ever more dyslexic octogenarian typing. And yes, I should use spell check! CY ________________________________ To: STMFC@... Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:52:41

By drgwrail · #83330 ·

Re: Coal car loading on "home" roads...

What seems to be overlooked in this discussion of coal movements by rail is that during the steam years over 25% of all coal mined was used for locomotive fuel (I have the figure around here

By drgwrail · #83329 ·

Roundhouse milk car (was Milk car photo)

Tim and friends, I don't remember ever discussing the Roundhouse/Athearn 40' wood milk car on this group. This is the recent one they brought out just before Roundhouse was taken over a few years

By Garth G. Groff <ggg9y@...> · #83328 ·

Re: Milk car photo

They were also imported in O scale by Overland. Rod Andy Sperandeo wrote:

By Rod Miller · #83327 ·

Re: Atlas 40' USRA rebuild

I just posted a composite photo in the folder *Atlas USRA Rebuild - HO* in the photos section. It shows an SLSF rebuilt DS USRA boxcar from the Youngstown Steel Door Co. ad in the 1937 CBCyc and two

By Larry Kline · #83326 ·

Re: Milk car photo

General American built a number of similar steel milk cars for Pfaudler. Overland imported three of them in brass -- two 40' cars and a 47' car. The most common style was a 40' car with a rounded

By Tim O'Connor · #83325 ·

New file uploaded to STMFC

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /SLSF and Atlas HO rebuilt USRA boxcars.jpg

By STMFC@... · #83324 ·

Re: Atlas 40' USRA rebuild

Dale I've seen it in person, and I think Ben Hom's comments were right on the money. Sunshine has nothing to worry about with regard to competition from this model. But I'm sure it will sell to those

By Tim O'Connor · #83323 ·

Re: Atlas 40' USRA rebuild

There is pretty complete prototype info in Ben Hom's spreadsheet *USRA SS boxcars,* which has been in the STMFC files section since 2003. All of the steel rebuilt USRA DS boxcars are described in the

By Larry Kline · #83322 ·

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