Al,

        thank you for the info. Sounds like a very interesting research project.

Fred Freitas




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From: al_brown03 <abrown@...>
To: STMFC@...
Sent: Sat, May 29, 2010 1:34:36 PM
Subject: [STMFC] Re: Car Builder ques.

 
Did a little googling after my previous post, & found more.

The "Railway Car Builders of North America" site says Summers operated in Pittsburgh from 1909-1915, and goes on to say "Cars built by Standard Steel Car Company."

From "The Iron Age" for 24 July 1913, p 210:
"The Summers Steel Car Company, Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, is delivering 100 all-steel 100,000-lb box cars of its own design to the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad for hauling Portland cement. The cars are equipped with Summers balanced side-bearing trucks."

In TS CYC 35 (reprinted from the 1919 CBC), pp 252-253, are a photo and drawings of B&LE 90001, a most distinctive car. Since the B&LE's 1930s "PS-0" boxcars were numbered from 90101, I suspect the Summers cars were 90001-90100, though they were gone by 1/43 (date of my older ORER).

Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

--- In STMFC@..., "Panhandle Division 1953" <prrinvt@...> wrote:

List, do any of our learned friends know what Summers Car Co. produced in the early 1900's ? Don't recall ever hearing about this company; no doubt bought out by a larger concern. T I A

Fred Freitas

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Did a little googling after my previous post, & found more.

The "Railway Car Builders of North America" site says Summers operated in Pittsburgh from 1909-1915, and goes on to say "Cars built by Standard Steel Car Company."

From "The Iron Age" for 24 July 1913, p 210:
"The Summers Steel Car Company, Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, is delivering 100 all-steel 100,000-lb box cars of its own design to the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad for hauling Portland cement. The cars are equipped with Summers balanced side-bearing trucks."

In TS CYC 35 (reprinted from the 1919 CBC), pp 252-253, are a photo and drawings of B&LE 90001, a most distinctive car. Since the B&LE's 1930s "PS-0" boxcars were numbered from 90101, I suspect the Summers cars were 90001-90100, though they were gone by 1/43 (date of my older ORER).

Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

Summers Steel Car Co held some patents, dunno for what, under which Standard Steel Car built ore cars around 1910. See Westerfield kit #11300 (a work of art).

Al Brown, Melbourne, Fla.

List, do any of our learned friends know what Summers Car Co. produced in the early 1900's ? Don't recall ever hearing about this company; no doubt bought out by a larger concern. T I A

Fred Freitas