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Clark Propst
At ops last night a friend pointed out a discrepancy in name definition. Both Exactrail and Tangent have come out with GSC flat cars. One calls the company General Steel Car and the other called it General Steel Casting. We're curious as to which is correcter?
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Neither.
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General Steel Industries, Incorporated. I use GSC in my notes and GVSC for Greenville - just to keep them separated. Many other people use GSI and GSC respectively. But since some people use "GSC" for GSI, I decided to use that and picked something else for Greenville to disambiguate it. Now, anyone remember what RPA stands for, and what builder was associated with it? :-D Tim O'Connor ============================== On 2/26/2019 11:47 AM, Clark Propst wrote:
At ops last night a friend pointed out a discrepancy in name definition. Both Exactrail and Tangent have come out with GSC flat cars. One calls the company General Steel Car and the other called it General Steel Casting. We're curious as to which is correcter? --
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Tony Thompson
Clark Propst wrote: At ops last night a friend pointed out a discrepancy in name definition. Both Exactrail and Tangent have come out with GSC flat cars. One calls the company General Steel Car and the other called it General Steel Casting. We're curious as to which is correcter? General Steel Casting. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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Clark Propst
According to the magazine write up the company became GSI in 61 I believe? But, I think that was in the write up that called it General Steel Car...
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The name changed from General Steel Castings Corporation to General Steel Industries Corporation
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between 1953 and 1961 but I don't know the exact date. Originally called Commonwealth. Alco and Baldwin incorporated GSC in 1928 and acquired Commonwealth in 1929. So from 1929 to 1961 (or thereabouts) it was called GSC. Tim On 2/26/2019 1:34 PM, Clark Propst wrote:
According to the magazine write up the company became GSI in 61 I believe? But, I think that was in the write up that called it General Steel Car... --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts* |
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