[Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Photos: Assorted Gondolas & Flat Cars
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Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Bob, all;
I just love this stuff.
So, originated on the NYC at GE’s Schenectady, NY plant, bound for Long Beach, CA to populate their new steam plant for local power supply?
What a GREAT assortment of NYC’s unique flat car fleet. And that GE well! A smorgasbord of regular, well, semi-well, and HD flats, supplemented by a PRR G22, and RDG gon.
Thanks, Bob, SO much for sharing!
Elden Gatwood
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Photos: Assorted Gondolas & Flat Cars Two 1924 photos from the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25042/rec/856 These photos can be enlarged quite a bit. Two views of a special train transporting components to a steam plant. Related photos: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25046/rec/872 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25048/rec/882 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25049/rec/886 Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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ROGER HINMAN
The Boston & Albany cars in the third set appear to be carrying transformers most likely originating at GE’s Pittsfield, MA plant
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Roger Hinman
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Eric Hansmann
From the looks of the freight cars in these images, it seems the Pennsy spit-shine crew wasn’t called into action on that G22 gondola. The NYC spit-shine crews sure kept busy on some great looking flats and gondolas.
Eric Hansmann Murfreesboro, TN
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gatwood, Elden J SAD
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:46 PM To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Subject: Re: [Non-DoD Source] [RealSTMFC] Photos: Assorted Gondolas & Flat Cars
Bob, all;
I just love this stuff.
So, originated on the NYC at GE’s Schenectady, NY plant, bound for Long Beach, CA to populate their new steam plant for local power supply?
What a GREAT assortment of NYC’s unique flat car fleet. And that GE well! A smorgasbord of regular, well, semi-well, and HD flats, supplemented by a PRR G22, and RDG gon.
Thanks, Bob, SO much for sharing!
Elden Gatwood
From: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bob Chaparro via groups.io
Photos: Assorted Gondolas & Flat Cars Two 1924 photos from the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25042/rec/856 These photos can be enlarged quite a bit. Two views of a special train transporting components to a steam plant. Related photos: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25046/rec/872 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25048/rec/882 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll2/id/25049/rec/886 Bob Chaparro Hemet, CA
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Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
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Hi List Members,
I especially like the two views of the railroad car GE 25002, a trussrod center-hole flat car from series 25002-25007 - see links below: http://hdl.huntington.org/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=p16003coll2&CISOPTR=25042&action=2&DMSCALE=100&DMWIDTH=7000&DMHEIGHT=600081 My Dec 1930 ORER listing for GEX series 25002-25007: open center length..40ft 00in length of
opening...9ft 03in capacity..100,000
pounds
Enjoy! Claus Schlund
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lrkdbn
I wonder if it might have sometimes been that, faced with a large high value shipment like this power plant machinery that the RR might overhaul and paint cars just for that shipment,rather than just grab the first car off the yard track. This would account for the clean appearance of many of the cars in this set of pictures- if they did do this, it would be just the sort of practice that would die off in the Depression and war years
Larry King
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