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Offal is as offal does . . .
Peter Weiglin
Clark Propst wrote --
"Doug Harding has made a couple of convincing gon loads. They were featured in his packinghouse presentation." Yes, and Doug may dive in here. But in a post-presentation conversation, Doug mentioned that the "blood and guts" gondola load was painted using paint colors from the "Military Minature" shelf. Yes, they do assume that a modeler would want to replicate wounds correctly. So, there's a source for the correct paint colors. Doug's consultant was the military-modeling son of a well-known California railroad modeler whom I will not identify here, for his own security. Peter Weiglin Amelia, OH
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Peter, for some reason I think it best that the words "dive-in" and "offal"
should never be used together in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. As to the afore mentioned loads, yes they were painted by a 14 year old fantasy modeler who lead me to the "right" paints to use. And a former packing house gon loader and verified that the "colors" are right. Now the big question is, and I have asked this before, what kind of cars would be used in this service, and would they, like hide cars, never again be used for anything else? It has been suggeted that a steal gon could simply be hosed out and reused for about any service, so any could have been used. I suspect that drop bottom gons were not used due to leakage, but I have learned to never say never, and having witnessed trucks carrying similar loads I know leakage is not a concern of the hauler. Further in earlier years would a wood bodied gon be pressed into offal service? One story I have speaks of a burro crane with a clamshell bucket being used to empty these gons. Such a setup could be hard on wood cars, I suspect. Doug Harding Iowa Central Railroad www.iowacentralrr.org -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/538 - Release Date: 11/18/2006 4:48 PM
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Gatwood, Elden J SAD <Elden.J.Gatwood@...>
Doug;
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Al Buchan and other ex-PRR guys told me that they used old, near their end, steel-floored gons that had been "sealed" for the liquid, which it largely was on its surface. Those involved told me that you could not see much in the liquid, but that it resembled a yellow white frothy slime on its surface. It smelled like you suspect. There would be no one to say for sure if they were never used for anything else, but would you accept a car that smelled like that, unless you were so desperate you had to? One apocryphal story I heard was that a full shipment of offal was left sitting around in various locations in the Pgh area for days, and that those in charge at each yard would just ship it out somewhwere else, to get rid of it. Thus, it ended up at various yards. Al's story about one gon sloshing its contents on to an ROW is a classic. Elden
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From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of Douglas Harding Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 3:36 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Re:Offal is as offal does . . . Peter, for some reason I think it best that the words "dive-in" and "offal" should never be used together in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. As to the afore mentioned loads, yes they were painted by a 14 year old fantasy modeler who lead me to the "right" paints to use. And a former packing house gon loader and verified that the "colors" are right. Now the big question is, and I have asked this before, what kind of cars would be used in this service, and would they, like hide cars, never again be used for anything else? It has been suggeted that a steal gon could simply be hosed out and reused for about any service, so any could have been used. I suspect that drop bottom gons were not used due to leakage, but I have learned to never say never, and having witnessed trucks carrying similar loads I know leakage is not a concern of the hauler. Further in earlier years would a wood bodied gon be pressed into offal service? One story I have speaks of a burro crane with a clamshell bucket being used to empty these gons. Such a setup could be hard on wood cars, I suspect. Doug Harding Iowa Central Railroad www.iowacentralrr.org -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/538 - Release Date: 11/18/2006 4:48 PM Yahoo! Groups Links
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