Denny, et al, When I queried both the MILW and MILW Modelers Groups about the car in that ebay photo, Thom Anderson referred me to a Wade Stevenson photo of the car bearing original number MILW

Back to the question about double door boxcars, since their doors are offset to the left on each side by one door width, the opening on each side is offset by that width. The car side framing for

Thanks, Ed Back in my college days (40 years ago now) I had decaled two Tyco tank cars that had a metal underframe and tank bottom one in SHPX and one in UTLX with a car number of a 10,000 gal car I

Bill, I picked up this book last weekend at Mainline Hobby Supply. There are lots of photos from various sources. Many are credited to railroads and vendors. However there are many from the

Jack, I believe you are correct. It is modern open-top hoppers and gondolas where the side act as girders. A box car is a tube with the sides, roof, ends and underframe (side sills and cross bearers)

They can, and sometimes do, but there must be sufficient material around the hole to transmit the stresses. The little windows in the fuselage of an airplane have little effect on the strength of the

My assumption is that it is not intended (nor possible) to have all the door space open at the same time, but rather that almost any portion of the interior space can be accessed from the side by

My question is how would these doors be opened? I would think they would have to slide by each other but the door track doesn't look wide enough. Gordon Spalty

Why not go to where if you type in "coal", you get 4746 images related to coal? Not all of course are applicable, however many are and you can pick and choose photos by date or location.

Tim O'Connor wrote: Or just use steel frame instead of a solid web. You've heard of it, it's called a truss bridge. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest

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is this also true of gondola sides? they don't contribute to thelongitudinal strength ? and why do deck and through girder bridges have solid web plates ? seemslike they could cut holes in the plates

Tim, if you were a structural engineer, you would know that an opening in the middle of a beam’s web has very little, even no, effect on the bearing capacity of the beam. The web has structural

Tim, Ok show me how. Mark Rickert- who spent last weekend repairing a boxcar door.

Here is a link to an image of a cross section of an old School tipple whichwould be typical for most of the era covered by the list. http://www.montourrr.com/images/Mines/Morris/1916Tipple.jpg

Even with sizing different seams had differing characteristics like ash andBTUs. Without looking up the mine numbers West Ky Coal Company (believe #8 and#5) tipples were side by side shaft mines. One

Some mines, particularly Southern IL, more than one grade would be loadedin a gondola. Bords would be used to make temporary bulkheads. the car would beloaded in one section, when the mine shifter

There was also a price break on buying mine run coal and sorting ityourself. Back when labor was cheep a small user of coal would buy mine run andthan use pitchforks to fire the boiler or at least to

It varied by location and equipment, in the era of this list in the westKY/southern IL /Southern IN coal was hoisted to the surface by the mine cartfull hoisted dumped to the tipple feed to the

No, the doors don't contribute strength to the side girder. That's why the side sill is reinforced in the vicinity of the door opening. To turn your question around, if the structure depends on the