Need B&O M-15k Youngstown door help
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Jim King
I'm finalizing patterns (S scale) to create an M-15k from my M-53 patterns. The "k" was offered as a mini-kit at a 2016 RPM meet and I've collected 2 articles written about that kit but, since I'm working in S scale, more info re: the underframe and Youngstown door is needed. I have enough info to design the fishbelly underframe but am coming up empty on pix of cars with the Youngstown door.
Does anyone have photos of an M-15k post-mid-40s with the Youngstown door? The M-53s had the original panel door replaced soon after WWII and, based on an email I rec'd today, the M-15k's were upgraded 1948-49 with Camel hardware which implies the Youngstown door was also used but is not stated as such in the notes.
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David
Does anyone have photos of an M-15k post-mid-40s with the Youngstown door?RPC #9 implies (but doesn't quite state outright) that the Youngstown doors were part of the mid-'50s program to rebuild the M-15k's with new underframes. David Thompson
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rwitt_2000
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Jim King wrote:
Does anyone have photos of an M-15k post-mid-40s with the Youngstown door?I don't recall seeing any photos of M-15K with Youngstown doors. Attached is a photo that looks like a group of M-15 wagon-tops being staged in Vincennes, Ind. prior to entering the rebuilding program at the Washington, Ind. car shops ~1955-1956. They all still have their Tatum flat steel doors. The date you give 1948-49 I believe coincides with the memo issued to upgrade the doors on the M-53. It may have included the M-15 wagon-tops, but according to Jim Miscjke, who has a copy of the memo, the program did not move forward and doors were only replaced as needed. I may add that the Pullman Library has general arrangement drawings from Standard Steel Car, of the original M-15 that would give you all the information needed to model the original fishbelly underframes. I have found that all the resin kits produced to date have the truck center distance too short. Bob Witt
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rwitt_2000
Here's the attachment.
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rwitt_2000
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Jim King wrote:
I'm finalizing patterns (S scale) to create an M-15k from my M-53 patterns.Jim, Another consideration, are you planning to offer the two the three piece ends in addition to the one piece one as used on the M-53? Bob Witt
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John Hagen <sprinthag@...>
Not to depart from the railroad connection, and I am a B&O fan who has a couple such box cars in HO and O, but I’d really prefer to have that Studebaker. John Hagen
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of rwitt_2000 via Groups.Io
Here's the attachment.
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Jim King
Bob,
I’m simply modifying a 1st generation M-53 body casting to include the notched side sills and C-channel bottom door track. M-15k’s had different ends based on photos I’ve seen and some comments sent by S scalers. The 3 double rows of rivets on the M-53 also appeared on M-15ks (my photos show those) but some had just 2 double rows. What I’m mainly after now is photo proof of a Youngstown door installation but it appears the flat panel doors stayed with the “k’s” until they were rebuilt again and reclassed.
Jim King www.smokymountainmodelworks.com
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