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Scott wrote:

 

"Something I've noticed as I go through these consists is, every box car listed as "merchandise" has a 10 ton load weight. Considering that almost all of the other box cars have a more specific description of their lading, would it be safe to assume that these cars carry l.c.l. loads? Is the 10 ton listing just a shortcut to actually weighing these cars, as the nature of l.c.l. would almost never approach the load limit of the car?"

 

 

The minimum weight a car could transport in LCL service was controlled by the Office of Defense Transportation beginning with the issuance of General Order ODT No. 1 on May 1, 1942.  Between May 1 and July 1, 1942, the minimum was specified as 6 tons.  From July 1 to September 1, 1942, the minimum was increased to 8 tons.  From September 1, 1942, the minimum was increased to 10 tons continuing (as such) thru the duration of the ODT.

 

Exceptions to the provisions of GO ODT No. 1 were issued as General Permits.  The exceptions included; cars loaded with merchandise consigned to the Military (7 ton minimum), Westbound reefers returning to specific states (5 ton minimum), and box cars routed towards grain producing territories (5 ton minimum).  

 

There are examples of these exceptions within Terry's consists as well as cars carrying less tonnage prior to the May 1, 1942 Order.  

 

Regards,

 

Guy Wilber

Reno, Nevada 

 

While compiling some history about the Griffin Wheel iron wheel plant in Salt Lake City (1927-1960), I was able to borrow a copy of the book "Griffin Wheel Company, The First Hundred Years, 1877-1977" by way of interlibrary loan. Its a nice book, and includes a milestone timeline of the development of the iron railroad wheel, and Griffin's development of the cast steel railroad wheel that replaced the iron type.

I have created a web page to capture the history of the Salt Lake City plant, and the plain text of the book itself, which includes numerous photos. The book is a generic corporate history, with lots of white space and modern graphic design. It is printed on rough-finish cream-colored paper, so the photos do not scan very well, but I was able to capture the text, which is very good reading.

I leave it to someone who knows much more about railroad wheels to make comments about the accuracy of the book's text, and Griffin's place in the history of railroad wheels.

http://www.utahrails.net/industries/griffin-wheel.php

Don Strack

Speedwitch does a comprehensive set of Southern decals that includes the Aluminum version of the Southern herald.

This is link to an undated photo from the Los Angeles Public Library digital archives:

 

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics28/00063554.jpg

 

It shows a worker top icing head lettuce in a refrigerator car. To the right, hanging on the wall, appears to be a tool box. Would this have been a common item used to secure dunnage and the lining in the refrigerator car?

 

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA

Friends,

I picked up copy of Jim Kincaid's SOUTHERN RAILWAY COLOR GUIDE at the Virginia Museum of Transportation this morning. I went to Roanoke to see the Y-6a which is on loan from St. Louis. Impressive. Very hard to photograph with their narrow grounds. Rods all missing. But back to the book. I was pleased to see that there were a number of 1950s-era cars shown.

On thing stood out right away to me. The herald on 10048 built in 1938 and photographed in 1945 (page [33]) is quite different from the others. The slogan "The Southern serves the South" is of a large style and nearly fills the entire space between the two rings. The slogans on 22423 on the same page, 27000 (page [34]) and 30579 (page [35]) are in much smaller style and do not fill the rings. 30579 was built in 1951/52 and appears in original paint. 27000 was repainted circa 1958. Another car, 330219, a 1946-built car shown in 1953 also has the smaller lettering.

I just checked my dwindling stock of Champ decals, and all that I have of the large size are the older type shown on 10048 measure 5' across. I do have one pair of a 4' herald with the smaller slogan, maker unknown.

I have a pair of unbuilt 50' P2K auto cars, both with a "New 1944" date. One has a 4' 3" herald with the smaller lettering. The second has a 5' herald with the slogan filling the ring, but lettering style doesn't look like 10048. Oh, poop!

Where can I get the more modern herald decals? When did the heralds change? And how large (always 5'?) were these on boxcars ? Inquiring minds want to know.

Maybe I shouldn't have bought the book. But then the prototype police would eventually have noticed. But now I know the 50' PS-1 I lettered up a few years ago is WRONG!

Yours Aye,


Garth Groff

The last one to work for me is Feb 17, 2013.

This link will get you the last issues published except for a single one done in 2014.

On the left side of the web page in "Magazine Footnotes" frame is a link to the last updated version of the "B&O Modeler Index", which has nine (9) pages.

Between the first link, Feb 20, 2006, and last link, Feb 17, 2013, it looks like one can access all the B&O Modelers from vol. 3 through vol. 7.

I hope this helps.

Bob Witt

P. S. A big THANK YOU to Tim O' for reminding us about the "WAYBACK machine".

Bob,

I was in need of more "super glue" and I remebered this posting.  I did purchse some of the gel and was very much impreesed by it.  I have to agrre with you it has become my "new" favorite glue for all my model building.

Ed,   Try clicking on the Feb 20, 2006 link.   That worked for me,