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Re: RPCyc 35
John Barry
Bill, I second that emotion! The work is encyclopedic. Thank you Pat Wider! John Barry ATSF North Bay Lines Golden Gates & Fast Freights Lovettsville, VA 707-490-9696 PO Box 44736 Washington, DC 20026-4736
On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 09:44:08 PM EDT, william darnaby <wdarnaby@...> wrote:
I have not seen this new issue mentioned on the list, unless I completely missed it, but I received my copy of RPCyc 35 today. It is everything you wanted to know about the 1937 boxcar including 180 pages of diagrams covering everything from brakes to underframes to roofs and has 200 pages of photos of all the roads that owned these cars with a complete roster. It is offered by Rons Books and has the same look and feel of the previous 34 volumes. Bill Darnaby
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Re: RPCyc 35
Schuyler Larrabee
The same look and feel . . . except of course that it’s 385 pages. A very hefty volume indeed. The photos include variations over time of paint schemes and also some exotica , such as the C&O waffle-end version. A very worthwhile addition to our libraries.
BTW, the “peanuts” that Ron’s Books uses are biodegradable.
Schuyler
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of william darnaby
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 9:44 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: [RealSTMFC] RPCyc 35
I have not seen this new issue mentioned on the list, unless I completely missed it, but I received my copy of RPCyc 35 today. It is everything you wanted to know about the 1937 boxcar including 180 pages of diagrams covering everything from brakes to underframes to roofs and has 200 pages of photos of all the roads that owned these cars with a complete roster. It is offered by Rons Books and has the same look and feel of the previous 34 volumes.
Bill Darnaby
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RPCyc 35
william darnaby
I have not seen this new issue mentioned on the list, unless I completely missed it, but I received my copy of RPCyc 35 today. It is everything you wanted to know about the 1937 boxcar including 180 pages of diagrams covering everything from brakes to underframes to roofs and has 200 pages of photos of all the roads that owned these cars with a complete roster. It is offered by Rons Books and has the same look and feel of the previous 34 volumes. Bill Darnaby
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B&M pulpwood cars sold to West Virginia Pulp & Paper cars?
akerboomk
in 1945 (13 cars) and 1947 (7 cars) (best as I can determine right now) the B&M sold some pulpwood racks to the West Virginia Pulp & Paper co. (later Westvaco)
Do these show up in any ORERs of the period? Are there reporting marks/car numbers? I know by my 1953 ORER reprint they were not listed (at least not under Westvaco) Data on the cars (on the B&M) here: https://www.bmrrhs.org/misc_29000_series/ Photo of one of the cars in Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmrrhs/17233111145/ -- Ken Akerboom
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Re: P&WV box cars
Eric Hansmann
What era? Teens? Twenties? Thirties?
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Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
On Sep 15, 2020, at 9:01 AM, Gatwood, Elden J SAD <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote:
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Re: P&WV box cars
Brian Shumaker
I’ve been a PWV fan for years but lack of available locos kept me at bay. I like their black boxcars.
Brian
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Re: P&WV box cars
WILLIAM PARDIE
Oneof these cars was covered in one of Ted's Essential Freight Cars series and he also offered a kit for the car. Bill Pardie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...> Date: 9/15/20 4:34 AM (GMT-10:00) To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] P&WV box cars Elden, I'm not into the P&WV, but do you have Greg Martin's September 1993 MM article on modeling their boxcars? If you need a copy, please meet me off group. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆 On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:01 AM Gatwood, Elden J SAD <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote:
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Re: Tichy's USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE ~ PMcKY 40 foot box
Clark Propst
I'm pretty sure there's PL&E lettering for that car in Ted's NYC box car set. At least that's what I used...He also makes/made the correct door.
Clark Propst
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Re: P&WV box cars
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford <mallardlodge1000@...>
Elden, I'm not into the P&WV, but do you have Greg Martin's September 1993 MM article on modeling their boxcars? If you need a copy, please meet me off group. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:01 AM Gatwood, Elden J SAD <elden.j.gatwood@...> wrote:
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P&WV box cars
Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Group;
I really want to engage with people that are kmowlegeable about the P&WV’s freight car fleet. Please reply.
Thanks!
Elden Gatwood
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Re: Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
Mont Switzer
Dennis,
Yes, charcoal briquettes. My the way, the coal in bags dispensed from Consumers Coal and Ice were coal briquettes also. Not sure if that was the term used for this type of coal, though.
Thanks for jogging my memory. Mont
Montford L. Switzer President Switzer Tank Lines, Inc. Fall Creek Leasing, LLC. (765) 836-2914
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io>
On Behalf Of Dennis Storzek
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:29 AM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:27 PM, Mont Switzer wrote:
Mont,
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Re: Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
np328
The C Reiss briquette plant was (may still be) in Superior, WI along Winter Street, not far from where the NP's grassy Point bridge was/is.
Coal transloading was not big in the ports, it was huge. See post 65477 and of that post, it was just the NPs orders. The GN, Omaha, SOO could all have been making the same orders with the DW&P a real question mark. And the domestic market would have been another matter. Lake coal out of the ports was the single biggest determinant in NP gondola purchasing determinants in an internal 1930 study and again in 1939 when the report was revisited. This for a railroad that shipped much of it's on-line lignite across its system for locomotive fuel. I've wrote some prior on this lake coal in post 55859. I gave presentations about coal distribution at the end of the lakes in 2005 at the old HI in Naperville and elsewhere. Concerning coal and grain loading in the same boxcar. We may have a paradox here. Just as hide service is where boxcars go to die, so is loading coal into boxcars, even bagged. Only boxcars classed as "rough" are used at least for my researched railroad. I am open to enlightenment with solid data, however the only time I ever read of grain and coal being loaded to the same car war in the USRA time frame when a clerk in North Dakota wrote a letter with USRA letterhead to a regional office on how he got a load of coal from the Twin Ports and then had the car swept out and sent back with a load of grain so I honestly do not believe the practice was that common. Please remember even grain not yet milled is checked for inspected for contamination https://www.namamillers.org/education/wheat-milling-process/ As stated above, I gave presentations in 05 and I have been tapped to give these presentations (updated) again whenever the next St. Louis gathering is. I would offer these to Mike Skibbe and crew also. Whenever it is safe again. Jim Dick - St. Paul, MN
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Re: Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
Dennis Storzek
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:27 PM, Mont Switzer wrote:
I wonder if some of the "lake coal" was used to make charcoal. Lots of that moved (and probably still does) from MN in paper bags for consumer use in small patio grills.Mont, Do you by chance mean 'briquettes'? Charcoal is carbonized wood, not coal. I can't even begin to imagine the taste of prime steaks grilled over... soft coal. Yuck! As to coal briquettes, yes, C. Reiss or somebody had a briquette plant in the twin ports. All the trans loading to get the coal from mine to port, on the boat and off the boat again made a lot of fines, and this was a way to reclaim those fines. Interesting side story, the first time I saw the Laona & Northern steam train as a kid, the tender had a full load of what looked for all the world like barbecue charcoal. The give-away was the size, coal briquettes are about 2-1/2 inches square, at least these were. Dennis Storzek
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Re: Tichy's USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE ~ PMcKY 40 foot box
Rich C
I almost forgot. You may want to contact Jerry Glow. He is one of the best in the business and can provide P&LE USRA SS Box Car decals. Contact him here: jerryglow@... Rich Christie
On Monday, September 14, 2020, 10:16:59 PM CDT, Rich C via groups.io <rhcdmc@...> wrote:
I emailed Ted recently about the same set. He told me he is going to re-release them soon. Rich Christie
On Monday, September 14, 2020, 07:36:16 PM CDT, Ken Adams <smadanek44g@...> wrote:
Having acquired one of the Tichy USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE box car kits, I found the Speedwitch D107 is no longer available. I really like the Speedwitch decals. Is there an alternative. The Tichy decals I have used in the past are too thick. -- Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
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Re: Tichy's USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE ~ PMcKY 40 foot box
Rich C
I emailed Ted recently about the same set. He told me he is going to re-release them soon. Rich Christie
On Monday, September 14, 2020, 07:36:16 PM CDT, Ken Adams <smadanek44g@...> wrote:
Having acquired one of the Tichy USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE box car kits, I found the Speedwitch D107 is no longer available. I really like the Speedwitch decals. Is there an alternative. The Tichy decals I have used in the past are too thick. -- Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
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Re: Image of C&O 41461 steel gon at coal mine in 1944
Bravo Claus, this is one of about 5,000 such cars all basically the same that C&O rostered into the 1960's. And aren't those Barber 50 ton trucks with spring planks under there? Are you listening in Jim KIng? An always hopeful S scaler. Chris Rooney
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Re: Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
Jared Harper
This looks like an expensive specialty device in a time of cheap labor.
Jared Harper Athens, GA
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Re: Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
Here is what I have on the Ottumwa Boxcar Loader, built in Ottumwa, Iowa. Iowa at the turn of the 1900s had a thriving coal industry.
W.E. Hunt, of The Ottumwa Iron Works, & Henry Phillips, of Phillips Coal Co, (Ottumwa, Iowa) designed a machine to load coal (and other material) in box cars, which was installed at one of Phillips' mines. The first machine was built at Hardsocg Manufacturing, (Ottumwa.) Then a plant was built at Main & Wapello Streets, (building later used by Nicholls Manufacturing Company.) Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co. was Incorporated in 1906, and company was moved to new location on West Second Street. Company had a fire in 1910, but remained in business. (Company has been out of business for some time now, since coal is no longer mined in the Ottumwa, Iowa area.) Former officers of the company were: Henry Phillips, president; W.E. Hunt, vice president & general superintendent; Philip P. Phillips, general manager & treasurer; Howard Phillips, plant superintendent. Box car loaders were installed at Rock Spring, Wyoming; Fairmont, West Virginia; and Portland, Oregon. Company territory included Canada, as well as United States.
PROMINENT CITIZENS from Ottumwa, Yesterday and Today- By Glenn B Meagher and Harry B Munsell, 1923 WILLIAM E HUNT- Inventor; William E Hunt, inventor, supervises the building of the big machines which are the product of the Ottumwa Box Car Loader company. Mr Hunt makes a continuous study of the needs of industry and keeps a few moves ahead of the demand by perfecting new machines to handle heavy burdens expeditiously. HENRY PHILLIPS- Manufacturer; Henry Phillips divides his time between Ottumwa and Natchez, Miss., having a large plantation near the latter city. Ottumwa, however, still is "home". Mr Phillips had been identified with the community's development for many years before he established the Box Car Loader Company. He was prominently connected with Ottumwa's Coal Palace and is one of two living directors of the exposition.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Josh
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 4:18 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Photo: Loading Coal Into Boxcars? (1914)
Regarding the "widget" - The Standard Coal Company operated in Spring Canyon northwest of Helper. The company town there was named Standardville, an experiment in standardized and sanitary construction with all buildings built to the same concrete and ceramic block design. The coal tipple likewise being thoroughly groundbreaking was equipped with several options for loading: standard chutes for gondolas and open hopper, door chutes for boxcars, and a massive mechanical contraption called the Ottumwa Boxcar Loader. Ottumwa produced more typical conveyor belts for loading cars, but this device was much more elaborate. The boxcars were spotted on a rocker, which would lift them up on one end so that coal could be poured inside. Then appropriate bulkheads were placed and the car was flipped on end to the other side to be filled. The widget is the coupler post that locked onto the car and held it in place while it went on its seesaw ride.
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Re: Tichy's USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE ~ PMcKY 40 foot box
Having acquired one of the Tichy USRA SS Rebuilt P&LE box car kits, I found the Speedwitch D107 is no longer available. I really like the Speedwitch decals. Is there an alternative. The Tichy decals I have used in the past are too thick.
-- Ken Adams Still in splendid Shelter In Place solitude, about half way up Walnut Creek
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Image of NYC 434305 and friends at coal mine
Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Hi List Members,
Image of NYC 434305 and friends at coal mine. No date given, but I think I can read NEW 10-27 on the side of the hopper. Enjoy! Claus Schlund
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