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Richard Townsend
I was going through my junk box this morning and came a cross an AHM 40-foot, eight-panel gondola. It got me wondering: is there a prototype for this car? A quick look through several Carbuilder Cycs came up with plenty of nine-panel cars, but no eights. Any suggestions?
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Richard Townsend
Oh, by the way it's solid bottom. No drop doors.
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Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Richard Townsend via Groups.Io <richtownsend@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 10:24 am Subject: [RealSTMFC] AHM 40' 8-panel gondola I was going through my junk box this morning and came a cross an AHM 40-foot, eight-panel gondola. It got me wondering: is there a prototype for this car? A quick look through several Carbuilder Cycs came up with plenty of nine-panel cars, but no eights. Any suggestions?
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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Bill Welch
Hard to tell w/o a photo of the model but the L&N owned 10,000 8-panel 7-rib cars, NC&StL 1.150, and Southern 4,450 cars, all kited by Sunshine. These are high side gons for coal, etc.
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Benjamin Hom
Richard Townsend asked: "I was going through my junk box this morning and came a cross an AHM 40-foot, eight-panel gondola. It got me wondering: is there a prototype for this car? A quick look through several Carbuilder Cycs came up with plenty of nine-panel cars, but no eights. Any suggestions? Oh, by the way it's solid bottom. No drop doors." Bill Welch wrote: "Hard to tell w/o a photo of the model..." Photo attached - this is one of the most common models out there, originally introduced by Varney during their switch to styrene, copied by Rivarossi and Cox, and later offered by Walthers, Life-Like, and Bachmann. It's a plausible model - it's not outlandish like the Athearn 50 ft gon, but the problem is it doesn't match any known prototype. However, it's so common that I'm considering using it for a bunch of ersatz "Tan Dot" SP gons as I have more than a few on hand, saving the Red Caboose and Detail Associates models for foreground models. Here's Jason Hill's approach on doing this: Ben Hom |
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Jeffrey White
IC 97250 and 97251 rebuilt at Centralia in 1950 to carry calcium
carbide containers. 3 more cars, 97252 - 97254 rebuilt in 1952
and 7 more, 97255 - 97262 in 1953. There were 763 without the
provisions for the containers, 97263-97999. rebuilt at Centralia
in 1950. The diagram sheet says they were rebuilt from various
cars. The original cars were numbered 203700-205839 from various
builders in 1923. They were rebuilt the first time at McComb, MS
in 1943 and numbered 89000-89999. These are low side gons (3' 5
1/2" from the floor to the top) but they are 8 panel gons. Still
on the roster in 1960. Jeff White Alma, IL On 3/13/2019 4:50 PM, Benjamin Hom wrote:
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John Hile
Take a look at C&EI 95300-95399. Go to "Photos" section of this group, and search "95300" and you will find a pic and data sheet from C&EI Modeling News.
John Hile Blacksburg, VA |
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John,
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I haven't been following this - but are you saying you think the AHM gondola is good for this car? On 3/16/2019 6:36 PM, John Hile via Groups.Io wrote:
Take a look at C&EI 95300-95399. Go to "Photos" section of this group, and search "95300" and you will find a pic and data sheet from C&EI Modeling News. --
*Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts* |
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John Hile
Tim,
Merely directing Mr. Townsend to information on an 8-panel gondola. Thanks for posting that pic. John Hile Blacksburg, VA |
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