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Rock Island 50' Auto Box underframe.
Jason Kliewer
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Schuyler Larrabee
Do you know or can you find out the builder? There are resources but all the facts you can provide about who built it and when would go far to helping you out.
Schuyler
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Ed Hawkins
On Sep 2, 2017, at 3:58 PM, 'Schuyler Larrabee' schuyler.larrabee@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
I don’t know the answer to your question, but I offer the following that may help. RI 264000-264149 single-sheathed, 50’-6” auto cars were built ca. 4-30 by the Standard Steel Car Co. and later modified by the railroad in 1946 to increase the inside height from 10’ to 10’-6”. Suggest contacting Ted Anderson (tedander@...) at the Pullman Library part of the Illinois Railway Museum, as they have some SSC drawings from the 1930 time period. Regards, Ed Hawkins
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Jason Kliewer
Thank you for the reply Ed. I was actually just about to contact the Pullman Library on another matter so I'll add this inquiry.
To maybe be more specific, I'm looking at the cars that went to the DCI for tire loading. The Morning Sun color guide says they probably come from RI series 262450-262799. I assume these will be similar cars to what you mentioned. I know some series had end doors and others didn't. Thanks again, Jason
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Hi Jason,
Since this car is on the roster at IRM, I was not surprised to
find today, when I checked the file, that we have at least three drawings for
these series. Five Hundred cars were built by Standard Steel Car company
in 1930. 262450-252799 had two solid ends and 264000-264149
had doors on the A end, including 264070 at IRM. We have the
following drawings:
55305 General Arrangement drawing, does not
show end door configuration (I may have to look for that one, if its
needed.)
55307 Brake Arrangement drawing, does show
some details for the underframe, too
55308 Side Door Details
Contact pullmanlibrary@... for more details
on costs, etc.
Note, this is the prototype modeled by one of the Rocket
Express models. See http://www.rocketexpress.biz/default.html.
Regards,
Steve Hile From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2017 1:27 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Rock Island 50' Auto Box underframe. Thank you for the reply Ed. I was actually just about to contact the Pullman Library on another matter so I'll add this inquiry. To maybe be more specific, I'm looking at the cars that went to the DCI for
tire loading. The Morning Sun color guide says they probably come from RI
series 262450-262799. I assume these will be similar cars to what you
mentioned. I know some series had end doors and others didn't.
Thanks again,
Jason
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Jason Kliewer
Thank you for the follow up Steve, I will add those drawing numbers to my inquiry. I would certainly be interested in the end drawings but I do have the drawings for the 40' car like what Rocket Express did, and I think they would be the same (3-3-3 with a 10' inside height). I had asked if Rocket Express would consider the 50' car in N scale but he said he didn't think it would even be worth making the patterns based on sales of the 40' car. Besides, I would need a plywood sided car.
Thanks again, I hope to reach out to the library this weekend. Jason Kliewer Colorado Springs, CO
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