Does anyone have the Oct '03 issue of RMC with Ted's EFC *7 on C&NW SS
boxcars? Is the subject USRA cars or what??

TIA
Jerry Glow

The RMC article says these were like USRA but five inches shorter. CNW
owned 6,630 of these! Various number series.

Bob Sterner

--- In STMFC@..., "jerryglow2" <jerryglow@...> wrote:

Does anyone have the Oct '03 issue of RMC with Ted's EFC *7 on C&NW

SS

boxcars? Is the subject USRA cars or what??

TIA
Jerry Glow

To clarify, these car had a "shorter" or "lower" inside height. The
cars were not as "tall" as the USRA SS boxcar.

Bob Witt

Bob Sterner wrote:

The RMC article says these were like USRA but five inches shorter.

CNW owned 6,630 of these! Various number series.

Bob Sterner

--- In STMFC@..., "jerryglow2" <jerryglow@> wrote:

Does anyone have the Oct '03 issue of RMC with Ted's EFC *7 on C&NW

SS

boxcars? Is the subject USRA cars or what??

TIA
Jerry Glow

On a larger question: how good a predictor of exterior height is the IH measurement? Can we assume that a car that is 5" lower than another in IH is automatically 5" lower externally? And is that difference expressed in the vertical dimension of the sides alone? (Obviously, issues of interest to a modeler.)

Barry Roth

rwitt_2000 <rmwitt@...> wrote:
To clarify, these car had a "shorter" or "lower" inside height. The
cars were not as "tall" as the USRA SS boxcar.

Bob Witt

Bob Sterner wrote:

The RMC article says these were like USRA but five inches shorter.

CNW owned 6,630 of these! Various number series.

Bob Sterner

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On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Barry Roth wrote:

On a larger question: how good a predictor of exterior height is the
IH measurement? Can we assume that a car that is 5" lower than another
in IH is automatically 5" lower externally? And is that difference
expressed in the vertical dimension of the sides alone? (Obviously,
issues of interest to a modeler.)

The relationship was approximate, but a car with 5" lower IH would have
been about 5" lower outside, as well (give or take an inch or two) and
the difference in the height of the sides was readily visible.

Richard Hendrickson