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Photo: UTLX 95870 - For Extreme Tank Car Modeling
Photo: UTLX 95870 - For Extreme Tank Car Modeling A 1958 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc196209/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. Description: "A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma." Will anyone bring a model of this car to a prototype modelers meet? Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: FGEX 36330 At Rock Island Yard
Photo: FGEX 36330 At Rock Island Yard A circa 1945 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1116212/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. Description: "Photograph of the Rock Island Railroad Marshalling Yard on the east side of downtown Oklahoma City. Photo taken by Meyers Photo Shop, c. 1945." There are a lot of freight cars in the photo but only FGEX 36330 is easily identified. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: Bailed Cotton On Flat Cars
Photo: Bailed Cotton On Flat Cars An undated photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1622358/ Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. Description: "Photograph of nine African-American men and three White men adjacent to nine flatbed cars loaded with baled cotton in Kell, OK." Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: RI Boxcar 141137 - Hide Loading Only
Photo: RI Boxcar 141137 - Hide Loading Only A 1959 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1587593/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. Description: "Photograph of Rock Island Railroad cars on the Rock Island Railroad tracks, East Yard, Bricktown, Oklahoma City, OK." This is about as low a service as any boxcar would see. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: UTLX 47072 Crowley Tar Products
Photo: UTLX 47072 Crowley Tar Products A 1959 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1123983/?q=railroad Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Photo: V-1 Weapon On MP Flat Car 8171
Photo: V-1 Weapon On MP Flat Car 8171 A 1945 photo from the Oklahoma Historical Society: https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc262590/?q=train Click on the photo to enlarge it and use the Zoom button to enlarge it further. With more of these the Missouri Pacific could have held off the Union Pacific for several more years. Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Re: An image of ACL ventilated boxcars
Benjamin Hom
Jack Wyatt asked:
"I wonder what the body color was for the original Atlantic Coast Dispatch vent's?" Yellow, with red herald. Ben Hom
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Re: Hindsight 2020 RPM Appreciation
Jim Hayes
Me too Tom. I just turned 80, I'm in delicate health and don't leave home. Hindsight 2020 was perfect for me too, except for interruptions at home. Wish I could have put it on hold at certain times. Jim Hayes
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:25 AM Mont Switzer <MSwitzer@...> wrote:
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Re: An image of ACL ventilated boxcars
C J Wyatt
I wonder what the body color was for the original Atlantic Coast Dispatch vent's?
I should know, but it hasn't stuck in my mind. Appreciate it! Jack Wyatt
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Re: Hindsight 2020 RPM Appreciation
Mont Switzer
Well said, Tom.
Mont Switzer
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io [main@RealSTMFC.groups.io] on behalf of Tom Madden via groups.io [pullmanboss@...]
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2020 3:19 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Hindsight 2020 RPM Appreciation As an octogenarian living alone I can't afford to put myself in any situation that carries the risk of hospitalization. Until there's a vaccine or effective outpatient treatment for the virus I won't be doing any commercial traveling or participating in
group activities. The Hindsight 2020 RPM was tailor made for those like me and I hope these virtual meetings continue. There were two interrelated aspects that I really, really liked - no rows of heads obscuring portions of the screen, and the images on the
screen were right here on my high definition computer monitor and not 30 feet away. As a single-track event I got to see several presentations I would not have chosen to attend at a multi-track live meet, and learned some new things as a result. Yes, I missed
seeing old friends, walking on the beach and having the opportunity to write a large check to Bob Liljestrand at the end of the day, but a virtual meet is a very desirable alternative to a live meet. And as Ken says, it makes presentations available to those
who can't come to live meets.
Tom Madden
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Re: Trucks?
Dennis Storzek
Not Vulcan, rather some sort of Andrews patent truck. Vulcan trucks had the end of the sideframe encircle the journal box, which fit in the resulting slot, and retained by a horizontal bolt through a lug on the sideframe directly behind the journal lid hinge. I'm not seeing this lug, nor does the sideframe extend far enough to encircle the outer side of the journal box. Meanwhile, although the poor quality of the photo makes it hard to see, I think I'm seeing vertical bolts alongside the journal boxes. Those are the spotting feature of the Andrews design. Andrews trucks don't have to have the horizontal strap to the bottom of the journal; some had the strap drop at a 45 deg. angle from a bracket cast on the sideframe, as here.
Dennis Storzek
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Poultry Car Gallery
Andy Laurent
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Re: fire truck delivered in Oregon on a PRR end-door box car
Benjamin Hom
Bruce Smith wrote: "IIRC, the X30 was PRR's first end door car." Class X25A had end doors. Ben Hom
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Re: Trucks?
Bill Welch
In the product description the Trucks are ID'ed as 55-ton Vulcan.
Bill Welch
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Re: Trucks?
Todd Sullivan
Hmmm, on a sudden hunch, I checked my Cory Bonsall model of a Utah Coal Route GS gondola, and it has similar looking trucks under it. I don't know enough about D&RGW freight cars to know if they had composite GS gondolas or not. Cory's models show the similar truck under both the Utah Coal Route and D&RGW 40' and 42' GS gondolas - see
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-3D-Printed-D-RGW-Offset-GS-Gondola-42ft-45k-Series-Single-Kit/232442939371?hash=item361eadc7eb:g:JJoAAOSw~y9ZCP49 Todd Sullivan
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Re: Trucks?
Todd Sullivan
Hi Clark,
It looks like a hybrid design between an Andrews (separate journal box castings) and a full cast steel sideframe truck. I have no idea who might have made it, but I think I have seen one or two similar designs in other freight car photos. The top part of the sideframe is pretty thick over the journals, reminiscent of the Andrews designs. Todd Sullivan
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Re: fire truck delivered in Oregon on a PRR end-door box car
espee4441
Tony,
I'll be the first to comment on that Seaboard car to confirm your accurate suspicion. I was pleasantly surprised to see it and simultaneously astounded because 28 years later I was walking those same spots in Roseburg as a teen. Would come down from nearby Glide for the weekend and railfan. Heck, maybe that same fire truck was still around but most likely in a local field or smaller community as back up since they have second lives in one such capacity or another. That Seaboard car gives me an excuse to get one if it's available. I have about 15 of the P2K 50 footers so far that work for this era. Anything remotely close in HO for SAL? I can't get the link to work now to see if it's a 40 or 50 in length. Bowser and Accurail have 40 feet versions and Branchline does a PS1 in 50 but that's not it in the photo. Tony Pawley
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Re: fire truck delivered in Oregon on a PRR end-door box car
Lee
thats not an american la france engine, at least not a full out version. ALF made bodies on commercial chassis which this looks to be. Possibly a Chevy or Ford?
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Re: Shipping sugar cane by rail...
akerboomk
RE: How unloaded?
Having just read thru the Magor Car Corp book by Ed Kaminski [so now I must be an expert, never having seen a sugar cane car before) ;-)] – looks like side dump to me?
Ken
-- Ken Akerboom
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Re: NP steel boxcar
Looks more like they are unloading the car. The car is sitting next to lumber sheds, and the load appears to be bags which are to big to be cement or plaster. Nor does the bag sag in the middle, indicating it is lot heavy. It could be bags of vermiculite, used in insulation, which would be shipped in a NP boxcar as the main mine was in Montana. A lumber yard in Florida would be receiving bags of vermiculite, not shipping it out. The forklift does not have pallet, but rather it appears the employees simply laid some planks on the forks to make a platform for holding the sacks. Once the fork is loaded, they will drive it to the storage building and unload the sacks into the building, out of any weather. All done by hand.
Doug Harding www.iowacentralrr.org
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 9:42 PM To: STMFC <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] NP steel boxcar
Hi List Members,
NP steel boxcar with "Dantzler Lumber & Export Company employee loading a North Pacific Railway car - Jacksonville, Florida"
Enjoy!
Claus Schlund
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