Date
1 - 7 of 7
[Gould Railroad Standard Wooden Cabooses
|
Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Mike Carson wrote:
Mullet River Models (MRM) has recently released a Western Pacific Caboose, that is stipulated to be a Gould Standard Wooden Caboose. A series of Google searches lends credence to the stipulation. Other Gould system railroads were the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Western Pacific & subsidiary roads.I've been told, though I'm no Gould Road expert, that there was no STANDARD Gould caboose, though several of the roads had very similar ones. Likely someone on this list knows more ( . . . much more! <g>) Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
|
|
|
Charlie Vlk
The "Harriman" (UP CA, SP???) is the only "standard" wood caboose I am aware of.
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
St. Charles car company built cars for the CB&Q, MP, CM, and others that were pretty much alike (like the Morrison-International "Wide Vision" cars are similar) but not identical. The so-called "USRA" wood caboose may be close but I haven't seen any study on the pedigree of that family to say if it qualifies as a "standard", even the steel version has about as many variations as the ATSF "1900" clones (WAB, Alton, CRR, etc..). Charlie Vlk ----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Thompson To: STMFC@... Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 7:41 PM Subject: [STMFC] Re: [Gould Railroad Standard Wooden Cabooses Mike Carson wrote: > Mullet River Models (MRM) has recently released a Western Pacific > Caboose, that is stipulated to be a Gould Standard Wooden Caboose. > A series of Google searches lends credence to the stipulation. > Other Gould system railroads were the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash, > the Denver & Rio Grande, the Western Pacific & subsidiary roads. I've been told, though I'm no Gould Road expert, that there was no STANDARD Gould caboose, though several of the roads had very similar ones. Likely someone on this list knows more ( . . . much more! <g>) Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
|
|
|
Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
Charlie Vlk wrote:
The "Harriman" (UP CA, SP???) is the only "standard" wood caboose I am aware of.As you might guess, Charlie, it was a Class CA car on both SP and UP, since it was an Associated Lines standard. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
|
|
|
The Van Sweringen roads didn't share any caboose designs?
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
At 6/21/2010 06:49 PM Monday, you wrote:
The "Harriman" (UP CA, SP???) is the only "standard" wood caboose I am aware of. |
|
|
|
Charlie Vlk
The Magor design caboose that Atlas offers in HO and N is a mini-standard (PM, C&EI, C&O, MP) but AFAIK the PM, C&O and NKP didn't order any cars as a Van Sweringen "standard".
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
Morrison had a modular design steel caboose but the length, window arrangement, cupola/bay window/none, etc.. could be cusomized so that no two looked alike.... EJ&E and BRC are examples of how different they could look. Kato's "Shorty" caboose in N (Cambria & Indiana prototype was released; BRC transfer style was planned as was a bay window (LI) version but they were not). Charlie Vlk ----- Original Message -----
From: Tim O'Connor To: STMFC@... Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: [Gould Railroad Standard Wooden Cabooses The Van Sweringen roads didn't share any caboose designs? At 6/21/2010 06:49 PM Monday, you wrote: >The "Harriman" (UP CA, SP???) is the only "standard" wood caboose I am aware of. >St. Charles car company built cars for the CB&Q, MP, CM, and others that were pretty much alike (like the Morrison-International "Wide Vision" cars are similar) but not identical. >The so-called "USRA" wood caboose may be close but I haven't seen any study on the pedigree of that family to say if it qualifies as a "standard", even the steel version has about as many variations as the ATSF "1900" clones (WAB, Alton, CRR, etc..). >Charlie Vlk |
|
|
|
Charlie Vlk
Tony-
I thought it was a CA on the SP as well, but only looked at the UP info in the near past so wasn't totally sure. Thanks, Charlie Charlie Vlk wrote: > The "Harriman" (UP CA, SP???) is the only "standard" wood caboose I > am aware of. As you might guess, Charlie, it was a Class CA car on both SP and UP, since it was an Associated Lines standard. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
|
|
|
jerryglow2
MP's Magors and clones vary considerably in the end platform detail and steps as can be seen in my modified one:
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
http://home.comcast.net/~jerryglow/more/Magor.html Jerry Glow --- In STMFC@..., "cvlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
|
|
|