On Tue, 8/19/14, Tim O'Connor timboconnor@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:

Subject: Re: [STMFC] new lumber load kit from Owl Mountain
To: STMFC@...
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 10:12 PM


 











Chuck, if you've ever seen a single photo of a 70 ton
flat car

with a load that looks like that, can you post a link to it?
For

my part, as I said, I will try to use the product to model
what

I have seen in photos of 70 ton cars.



http://www.owlmtmodels.com/lumber/LMRC_Test_Shot_-3A.jpg



On the other hand, real steam era modelers are in better
shape.

Tony posted a photo showing a smaller car (40-42 ft) and
probably

with 50 ton capacity on his blog --



http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/07/open-car-loads-forest-products.html



Tony's photo also shows a car loaded with huge milled
timbers! I've

never seen a load like that before, except on models. I
wonder if huge

timbers like that travelled very far, or were sent to a
creosote plant

to be treated, before making a long trip.



Tim O'



>This does look like a great product which I certainly
will try.

>As to the size of the loads, I would think that the size
of loads

>depends less on how much the shipper can load on a car
and

>much more on how much the buyer has ordered. Not
every

>load has to be maxed out on cubes or weight. If you put
a string

>of cars together, the shipper will likely try to
minimize the number

>of cars. But a single load or a load and a half may not
max out.

>Chuck Peck













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From: "Benjamin Hom b.hom@... [STMFC]"
To: "STMFC@..."
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: NC&STL XM 32 (NOT HM 32) rebuilds

Marty McGuirk wrote:
"You could build your own. The trickiest part to fabricate will be the ends. I think someone used to make them (John Greene at Bethlehem Car Works, maybe????)"
 
Westerfield offers the Hutchins ends from their Southern Class SU boxcar kits, but the inverse Hutchins ends aren't availables AFAIK.  Andy Clermont fabricated them from styrene for D&H 36 ft DS boxcar kibashes from the MDC kit years ago (see John Nehrich's "D&H's 1907 Wooden Boxcars" in the December 1987 issue of RMC) - Archer rivets would make this approach far more refined than Andy's efforts 27(!) years ago.

 
"If you can't locate separate ends or the Sunshine kit suggest using a similar car - like the Funaro 3406 D&H boxcar with Reverse Hutchins Ends as a starting point. The Funaro kits are going to be far easier to source than the Sunshine Model."

Keep your eyes open - Funaro kits are readily available on the open market, and you can often get Funaro kits below list price directly from him at shows if you buy in quantity.
http://www.fandckits.com/HOFreight/3400.html

 
 
Ben Hom


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