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Rapido HO cars for sale
Ted Schnepf
Hello,
All this meat train talk had me check stock and can offer two Rapido 37' meet reefers. There is one Dugdale and one Wimp packing. Also from Rapido is the NP 40' double sheathed boxcar, with radial roof. Four car numbers to choose from. Pre War version. Contact me offf list for any of these cars. Rails Unlimited Ted Schnepf 126 Will Scarlet, Elgin, Ill. 60120 847=697-5353
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
I believe it was 1947
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:53 PM Donald B. Valentine via groups.io <riverman_vt=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
gtws00
That car really turned out nice.
George Toman
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
NIce touch with the replaced plamnk, Fenton. I've done that for years with box car and reefer sheathing. No reason not to apply the same technique here. Your comment about white lettering raises a question, however. When di the UP change from white to tellow freight car lettering? That's something I need to pay more attention to with a cut-off date of 31 Dec. 1948, a eriod of many such chanes. Cordially, Don Valentine
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Erie RR track scale abbreviations
David
Here's a 1917-built car reweighed at "BFO":
http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-12-09-19/X4529.jpg David Thompson
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Re: Poorly Secured Load?
Donald B. Valentine <riverman_vt@...>
I'll go a bit further than Ron's suggestion that there is a "Do ot Hump" placard, or will be before it leaves town, on this load. Given the width of the tank, as evidenced by the inward taper of the tie down bamds, one wonders if this car wold be moved in regualr service or as a "High Wide" move. The blocking looks substantial which might mean that the bands are perfectly adequate if their strength were known. Bob suggests the need for a third one. Where? In the middle? The ability of another band in the middle would be badly compromised if ether of the end bands failed. I'd prefer to see a double band on each end if there were any doubt at all, which there is with me, about the two present but that may come from my 35 years of insuring railroads. Cordially, Don Valentine
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Erie RR track scale abbreviations
lrkdbn
Dear group.
I am currently finishing a Westerfield Erie Dominion Fowler box car. What would be some Erie track scale abbreviations ca.1930? Thanks for any help you can give Stay Safe!!! LR King <lrkdbn@...>
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Re: AFE building NP car from LV Car
Benjamin Hom
Tony Thompson wrote: "There certainly is a prototype for a lot of odd things, but hardly 'anything.' And I will repeat my own personal mantra, that it's wise to model the typical and the commonplace, and restrain your modeler's joy in modeling the weird, the rare, and the one-off. That is, of course, if you are seeking to model reality." "Modeling all of the exceptions does not make an exceptional layout." - John Nehrich Ben Hom
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Re: AFE building NP car from LV Car
Tony Thompson
Hudson Leighton wrote: A 1920 Northern Pacific Railway AFE 5005-20 which calls for using LV (Lehigh Valley?) car as parts source for NP water car. Actually, I think you need to rephrase that. There certainly is a prototype for a lot of odd things, but hardly "anything." And I will repeat my own personal mantra, that it's wise to model the typical and the commonplace, and restrain your modeler's joy in modeling the weird, the rare, and the one-off. That is, of course, if you are seeking to model reality. Tony Thompson
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Lester Breuer
Excellent build Fenton. Thanks for sharing.
Lester Breuer
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Re: AFE building NP car from LV Car
Richard Townsend
Somewhere in my files I have AFEs from the C&S for converting or repairing (and keeping) wrecked cars from the PRR and Erie. Railroads were pretty skilled at squeezing out whatever value they were able to find in salvage. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Hudson Leighton <hudsonl@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Fri, Apr 10, 2020 12:29 pm Subject: [RealSTMFC] AFE building NP car from LV Car A 1920 Northern Pacific Railway AFE 5005-20 which calls for using LV (Lehigh Valley?) car as parts source for NP water car.
There is a prototype for anything. -Hudson
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Re: AFE building NP car from LV Car
Hey, they paid the Valley for it so might as well get some use out of it.
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Brian J. Carlson
On Apr 10, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Hudson Leighton <hudsonl@...> wrote:
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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
Garth Groff and Sally Sanford
Tim, Great photo, even if it is beyond our era. You can even see Hooker's 25T GE in the big photo (the on one of the tracks near the tank farm to the right of the photo). This locomotive shows in one of the other photos from the Tacoma PL Collection. And a Liberty Ship as a bonus. This is likely either the SS Woodbridge Ferris, or the SS Mahlon Pitney, both of which were cut up at Tacoma in 2010 after sitting derelict in Commencement Bay for years. Yours Aye, Garth Groff 🦆
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 10:27 AM Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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AFE building NP car from LV Car
Hudson Leighton <hudsonl@...>
A 1920 Northern Pacific Railway AFE 5005-20 which calls for using LV (Lehigh Valley?) car as parts source for NP water car.
There is a prototype for anything. -Hudson
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Re: Poorly Secured Load?
My WAG is those loads are so heavy, they stay on cars by shear weight alone. Only reason for the bands is to who knows what. ~}
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Todd Sullivan
Ooooh, what a nice looking car! I'll have to do one myself, methinks. Thanks for sharing!
Todd Sullivan
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In-process models
Eric Hansmann
I’ve posted an overview on three model projects that have kept me busy for a few weeks. I also included photos and notes on building Yarmouth Model Works etched metal ladders. Grab a beverage and enjoy the read. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2020/04/10/workbench-update-april-2020/
Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
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Re: Hooker Chemical, Tacoma
Chuck Soule
Tacoma's Hooker facility was actually built in the 1920s, before the Bonneville Power Administration era, because Tacoma had a very aggressive public utility dept. that built several dams for power supply, so they had cheap electricity (same reason Hooker's NY plant was next to Niagara Falls). It was still in service in the very late 1990s when I toured it, but under a new owner. The time slider on Google Earth shows that it was demolished about 2009.
Regarding the views across Hylebos Waterway (tidal, not a river), there were a good number of houses on pilings or bulkheaded fill between Marine View Drive and the waterway. There are still a few, but it is more commercialized now. There have long been marinas and log rafts. In the early 1950s, my Dad had a sailboat, and in the winter he would have it hauled out of the water at one of those marinas, leaving it on land all winter, and cleaning/painting the hull while it was out. I was so young I barely remember it. Regarding the picture of the panorama view, it was not taken at Pt. Defiance, but rather at the northern end marine view drive. The road north of Hooker winds up the steep hillside, and there are a couple of pullout viewpoints (as well as the excellent Cliff House restaurant). if you go to Google Earth (lat 47.286 lon -122.4042) you can still see the semicircular tracks. Timeslide back to a good photo in 2002, and you can still see structures. Chlorine was loaded into tank cars next to the small buildings at the NW corner, in the bend of the Northwesterly "snap track" curve. Caustic Soda was loaded at the easterly corner of the property. If I remember correctly from the tour I took 20 years ago, Occidental made chlorinate chemicals at or next to the SE side of the plant. To this day, there is a significant environmental cleanup issue, which I believe is more significant at the OxyChem side of the plant than associated with the original chlorine manufacturing area. The overall residual environmental issues are a major part of why the entire site is currently vacant. The model at the PSMRE layout at Washington State History Museum is tucked way in the back from the viewing public in a corner. There wasn't a lot of room for Bill to build the model, so he basically did the main square 2-story brick building of the original plant and the one-story building where the tank cars were loaded. Another club member painted the backdrop behind it to show the large stockpile of salt. There was a lot of selective compression needed in that part of the layout, so we concentrated on creating the general tideflats atmosphere. Chuck Soule
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Re: BAR 7000-series reefers
Andy Laurent
Thank you, Tim! Black sills and ends...silver roof.
My thanks, Andy Laurent Wisconsin
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Re: Adding some color to the fright car roster UP #57068
Bob Webber
It's not a freight car per se - it shows as a passenger car
on the AAR classifications. Having said that, my understanding is
that any head end car - combine, baggage, express, mail, milk, etc. were
fair game (here).
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At 01:11 PM 4/10/2020, Nelson Moyer wrote:
You could post it to the plasticfreightcarbuilders group. They’ve been pretty quiet lately, except for the slap on the wrist I got for posting a coach-baggage combine moments ago. It is a NKP Car Co. hybrid brass-resin-plastic (mostly plastic) kit with brass sides, so I went with plastic because there was more plastic than resin. It raised the question, is a combine a freight car since it carries the markers on mixed FREIGHT trains and carries baggage and express packages? I’m curious what the sages in this group will opine.
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