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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill Keene via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 3:49 PM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] QUESTION FIR THE SANTA FE GURUS

The SFRM&HS' SANTA FE OPEN-TOP CARS, by Richard Hendrickson, has photos of the GA-53 cars on pages 146-148. While most of the underside stuff is hidden in the shadows, a couple of the photos do show what may be the end of the brake reservoir that is mounted perpendicular to the center sill.

Cheers.
Bill Keene
Irvine, CA

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From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [mailto:main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] On Behalf Of Philip Dove via groups.io
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2022 6:33 PM
To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Question on Illinois Terminal 50 yon war emergeny hopper 4000-4074 series

I guess the covered hopper was to carry materials for the manufacture of glass or more probably powdered lime stone as a flux in the steel industry.

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George

A gun barrel would not have been carried by that car. It would be mounted on two flat deck cars with a pivot
on each car for a really long barrel like a 16" naval barrel. AMB made a laser kit for these mounts for application to
the short PRR (F22) and MILW flats built for this purpose.



On 12/3/2022 2:18 PM, G.J. Irwin wrote:

Reviving this thread as Micro-Trains has among its December 2022 releases an N Scale rendition of this very car, Reading 99048, and with a battleship gun barrel load included (assembly and painting required). 

https://micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=63_64&product_id=4690

Sometimes the groups.io search works perfectly, as this citation came right up.  It's probably the first time I've seen Micro-Trains use a photo on Reddit as a reference, but say, ideas can come from anywhere.  Bob, thanks much for posting this.

Now, to try to find some information on Reading 9241, a fifty foot flat car that Micro-Trains is also offering this month as a companion "buffer car."  It's a Reading Class FMc flat built in 1937, looks like part of the series 9200 to 9249 according to the January 1940 ORER.  The image on Reddit does indeed show a flat car coupled to the 99048 but the lettering isn't visible. The fact that "Reading" is a common verb as well as a railroad name should make searches interesting...

George Irwin

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Tim O'Connor
Sterling, Massachusetts

From: Charles Vlk <cvlk@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 9:59 AM
To: main@realstmfc.groups.io
Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] ORER search 1937-1944

 

All-

On 2022-12-02 20:49, Steve and Barb Hile wrote:

Ian Cranstone's list of reporting marks show it was used by Rustless Iron, but he also points out that nothing was listed in the ORER's.

 

(Ian reviewed many, many ORER's to build his database and we are the beneficiaries.  Thanks, Ian!)

 

Steve Hile

On 2022-12-03 16:09, Tim O'Connor wrote:

No trouble downloading it, but it's quite huge -- over 300 MBytes.


On 12/1/2022 10:10 AM, Ray Breyer via groups.io wrote:

Get it while its hot! Or at least before someone realizes that it needs to be copyright protected and not downloadable.

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=8H8PAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22RAILWAY%20EQUIPMENT%20REGISTER%22&source=gbs_book_other_versions

 

Get it while its hot! Or at least before someone realizes that it needs to be copyright protected and not downloadable.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8H8PAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22RAILWAY%20EQUIPMENT%20REGISTER%22&source=gbs_book_other_versions

Ray Breyer

The SFRM&HS' SANTA FE OPEN-TOP CARS, by Richard Hendrickson, has photos of the GA-53 cars on pages 146-148. While most of the underside stuff is hidden in the shadows, a couple of the photos do show what may be the end of the brake reservoir that is mounted perpendicular to the center sill.  

Cheers.
Bill Keene

Reviving this thread as Micro-Trains has among its December 2022 releases an N Scale rendition of this very car, Reading 99048, and with a battleship gun barrel load included (assembly and painting required). 

https://micro-trains.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=63_64&product_id=4690

Sometimes the groups.io search works perfectly, as this citation came right up.  It's probably the first time I've seen Micro-Trains use a photo on Reddit as a reference, but say, ideas can come from anywhere.  Bob, thanks much for posting this.

Now, to try to find some information on Reading 9241, a fifty foot flat car that Micro-Trains is also offering this month as a companion "buffer car."  It's a Reading Class FMc flat built in 1937, looks like part of the series 9200 to 9249 according to the January 1940 ORER.  The image on Reddit does indeed show a flat car coupled to the 99048 but the lettering isn't visible. The fact that "Reading" is a common verb as well as a railroad name should make searches interesting...

George Irwin

I posted this question a while back without any success so I'm giving it another shot.  I am working on completing a Santa Fe Ga-53 50 foot mill gondola.  There was a great set of drawings in a 1957 Model Railroader but it left one question on the layout of the AB brake components.

The standard Santa Fe layout had the brake reservoir mounted perpendicular to the center sill.  There were a few but not many exceptions. The drawings in the Model Railroader issue has the reservoir parallel to the center sill.  Can anyone verify this?

Thanks for any help.

Bill Pardie