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Thomas Baker
Tim, Thank you for your response. Looking at the photo more closely now, I can imagine that is the case. It certainly looks a bit odd but would make an interesting model. Tom Baker From: STMFC@... [STMFC@...] on behalf of Tim O'Connor [timboconnor@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:34 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Tom It's part of the left hand door. I don't know why they were built that way -- perhaps they couldn't buy a factory made door of the width they needed so they welded an extension onto it? Tim O' In perusing an old Newton K. Gregg Train Shed Cyclopedia No. 17, on page 136, I examined a photo of a Milwaukee Road double-door ribbed box car. The arrangement of the double doors puzzles me: The ends that would normally be up tight against each other do not touch. But instead of a visible opening into the car, there seems to be a segment of the carside visible. |
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de Vries <bjdevries01@...>
Hi Tom,
These were Automobile cars which had a removable centerpiece between the
doors. See RP Cycl. # 13 and/or Railmodeljournal Dec. 2004
page 53-58. (downloadable through Trainlife.com)
Ben de Vries
Tim, Thank you for your response. Looking at the photo more closely now, I can imagine that is the case. It certainly looks a bit odd but would make an interesting model. Tom Baker From: STMFC@... [STMFC@...] on behalf
of Tim O'Connor [timboconnor@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:34 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Tom It's part of the left hand door. I don't know why they were built that way -- perhaps they couldn't buy a factory made door of the width they needed so they welded an extension onto it? Tim O' In perusing an old Newton K. Gregg Train Shed Cyclopedia No. 17, on page 136, I examined a photo of a Milwaukee Road double-door ribbed box car. The arrangement of the double doors puzzles me: The ends that would normally be up tight against each other do not touch. But instead of a visible opening into the car, there seems to be a segment of the carside visible. |
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The 'centerpiece' has what looks like a door roller on the bottom.
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Did it move with a door or not? Tim O' Hi Tom, |
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Staffan Ehnbom <staffan.ehnbom@...>
The GN called their version "movable door post" and
it moved with the auxiliary door. Would it make it possible to nail grain doors
to the double doors with this arrangement?
Staffan Ehnbom
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