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QUESTION FOR SANTA FE EXPERTS
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WILLIAM PARDIE
My next project is the Santa Fe BX-11/12 raised roof boxcar. I bought the
kit after a comment made in Naperville that proclaimed this the "Signature" Santa Fe boxcar. The kit comes with both a wood and similated steel roofwalk si I guess I can go either way. My other question is if these cars retained the Dalman one level trucks on rebuilding. Thanks in davance: Bill Pardie |
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Richard Hendrickson
On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:55 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote:
Bill, the diagrams in the Santa Fe Freight Car Folio show these cars as having wood running boards, and in the many photos I have, cars photographed in the late '40s and early '50s all appear to have wood running boards. Steel running boards of various kinds (Morton, Apex, Transco) were applied in later years, but don't seem to have been common on the cars until the '60s. So which running board you use depends on the period you're modeling. The Bx-11s had Dalman 2-Level trucks. The Bx-12s, built a year later, had Dalman 1-Level trucks. So choice of trucks depends on which class you're modeling. Another point that modelers of these cars often overlook is that they retained their original Bx-11 and Bx-12 numbers from the time they were rebuilt in 1941-'44 through World War II and didn't begin to get renumbered into the 210000-211049 (Bx-11) and 2211051-214549 (Bx-12) series until the late 1940s. This fact isn't widely known because almost all of the extant photos of the cars were taken in the late '50s and '60s, long after they were renumbered. Richard Hendrickson |
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Richard Hendrickson
On Apr 6, 2011, at 1:55 PM, WILLIAM PARDIE wrote:
Bill, the diagrams in the Santa Fe Freight Car Folio show these cars as having wood running boards, and in the many photos I have, cars photographed in the late '40s and early '50s all appear to have wood running boards. Steel running boards of various kinds (Morton, Apex, Transco) were applied in later years, but don't seem to have been common on the cars until the '60s. So which running board you use depends on the period you're modeling. The Bx-11s had Dalman 2-Level trucks. The Bx-12s, built a year later, had Dalman 1-Level trucks. So choice of trucks depends on which class you're modeling. Another point that modelers of these cars often overlook is that they retained their original Bx-11 and Bx-12 numbers from the time they were rebuilt in 1941-'44 through World War II and didn't begin to get renumbered into the 210000-211049 (Bx-11) and 2211051-214549 (Bx-12) series until the late 1940s. This fact isn't widely known because almost all of the extant photos of the cars were taken in the late '50s and '60s, long after they were renumbered. Richard Hendrickson |
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Richard, I think you meant to type 211051-214549 for the Bx-12.
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Tim O' Another point that modelers of these cars often overlook is that they |
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Richard Hendrickson
On Apr 6, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
Right you are, Tim. By the way, 211050, a single car, was rebuilt not only with an extended roof but with plywood instead of planked side sheathing. Apparently the Santa Fe did not consider it a successful experiment, as no other cars of these classes were so modified. Richard Hendrickson |
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