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Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

Mid '30s. I have the diagrams packed up. Announcement in the Erie magazine too. Were originally door and a half single sheathed box cars built in the late '20s or early '30s. A few of the cars were

By ed_mines · #137676 ·

Re: Erie ARA-1923 boxcar ends

Sorry, meant to write inverse Buckeye. Impressions are neither totally in or out of the plane of the end. Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #137675 ·

Re: Erie ARA-1923 boxcar ends

Inverse Buckeye. No exact models. Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #137674 ·

Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

Can anyone offer a date when the Erie rebuilt these cars? Were these originally single-sheathed or double-sheathed box cars? I assume they were DS cars, but verification is a good thing. Eric

By Eric Hansmann · #137673 ·

Re: Erie ARA-1923 boxcar ends

"reverse Buckeye" as far as I know. No models that I know of.

By Tim O'Connor · #137672 ·

Erie ARA-1923 boxcar ends

Does this boxcar end have a name? Any models of said

By D. Scott Chatfield · #137671 ·

Re: Reefers and permanent false floors

Don Valentine wrote: Don't know for sure about other reefer owners, but these statements are precisely BACKWARDS for PFE. The false floors, used in early mechanical reefers, DID support forklift

By Tony Thompson · #137670 ·

Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

Bill, That would be A&EC, the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway, the Tobacco Belt Route. John Sutkus

By John Sutkus · #137665 ·

Re: A few freight cars

Eric, Thanks for your response identifying these cars. I'd suspected the hopper was a home road car, but had never noticed DL&W's practice of omitting their initials on the car end. Now that you've

By Jack Mullen · #137664 ·

Re: ART wood reefers

Would you consider sharing a copy of it? Dave Nelson

By Dave Nelson · #137663 ·

Re: Modeling Wabash War Emergency 40-ft. Boxcars

Mark Vaughn Set E-1 Pierre Oliverwww.elgincarshops.comwww.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 9/30/15 10:42 AM, 'gary laakso' vasa0vasa@... [STMFC] wrote:

By Pierre Oliver · #137669 ·

Re: Modeling Wabash War Emergency 40-ft. Boxcars

I have a question on a similar OB Wabash boxcar. Being an SP modeler my knowledgeof mid-west boxcars is very limited. Years ago I picked up an Overland Wabash outdside bracwed boxcar that had been

By WILLIAM PARDIE · #137662 ·

Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

all those A&EC cars were hand me downs from parent Southern RR with sq corners. Protocraft has A&EC decals in O scale for these. Norm Buckhart

By Norm Buckhart · #137660 ·

Re: Reefers and permanent false floors

Doug Harding wrote: Correct, many photos in PFE book. A number of cargoes, particularly meat, were not shipped in cars with "floor racks" (as PFE called them). In the days of mechanical

By Tony Thompson · #137661 ·

Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

Might have been Atlantic & East Carolina. I think the logo had a tobacco leaf. ---In STMFC@..., <radepierre@...> wrote : Bill - That would be correct. Ten to WIF&SC. In addition, several sold to

By Hugh Guillaume · #137659 ·

Re: Reefers and permanent false floors

Doug, Think of it this way. Not only would the false floor be unlikely to support the weight of a fork lift but the false floor was not needed when pallets were used. As you have noted, the

By riverman_vt@... · #137668 ·

Re: Erie's rebuilt steel boxcars

Car ends? See Fallen Flags>Erie Lack.>freight cars>box cars>70301 Some also went to a Mexican railroad. Charles Winters offered a photo of one of these. Ed Mines

By ed_mines · #137658 ·

Re: Modeling Wabash War Emergency 40-ft. Boxcars

Doesn't matter which roof version war emergency box car kit you find, as the Intermountain rec panel roof is unusable and should be substituted with an RC '37 AAR roof (if you can find one). -Andy

By Andy Carlson · #137657 ·

Railroad Prototype Modelers-Valley Forge

Advance notice: The 7th Railroad Prototype Modelers- Valley Forge is being held on March 18-20, 2016. The location is the same great hotel as previous years, the Desmond Hotel in Malvern, PA, about

By prr282 · #137656 ·

Re: Modeling Wabash War Emergency 40-ft. Boxcars

I noticed that this link only gets you part of the way. Type E-1 into the search box, then scroll down Scott Haycock The annotated photo on Pierre's site says to use Mark Vaughn's

By Scott H. Haycock · #137655 ·

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