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PLE 46145 gon with scrap tin load 1942
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Claus Schlund \(HGM\)
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PLE 46145 gon with scrap tin load 1942
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Claus Schlund
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gary laakso
What a great picture! Thank you very much for sharing.
Gary Laakso Northwest of Mike Brock
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Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 2:26 PM To: STMFC <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Subject: [RealSTMFC] PLE 46145 gon with scrap tin load 1942
Hi List Members,
PLE 46145 gon with scrap tin load 1942
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Enjoy!
Claus Schlund
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Todd Sullivan
The load looks to be mostly tin cans - round and flat. I'm not sure I want to tackle that in HO!
Todd Sullivan
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charlie9
Just put some Reynold's Wrap in the wife's blender.
Charlie
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Eric Hansmann
The NYC Lines built 5,000 gondolas in Lots 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336-G in 1916. They were 46-foot, 2-inch interior length with 1018 cubic capacity. The cars were originally built with composite sides and drop ends for mill service. The NYC had 4,000 of these cars with 500 each assigned to the MC and P&LE.
Many were converted to steel sides, such as this one in a 1925 image.
Eric Hansmann
Murfreesboro, TN
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nyc3001 .
Some of these cars apparently survived up to 1953. It looks like both the wood and steel side versions could be useful for most steam era modelers given their longevity and abundance.
-Phil
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Bill Parks
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:21 AM, charlie9 wrote:
Just put some Reynold's Wrap in the wife's blender.Charlie - I remember an article (I think in MR) 20 years ago, or so, about modeling scrap tin cans, and the author said he used the wrappers from Hershey Kisses, and put them in a blender. If you get the Christmas ones, then you have not only silver, but also red, green, and some gold to mix in. -- Bill Parks Cumming, GA Modelling the Seaboard Airline in Central Florida
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Philip Dove
Tiny lengths of fat metal rod or slices of the Right gauge of hypodermic needle for tins, then model oil cans from oblong of strip wood decal led with microscale decals from a gas station set. My HOscale set includes a decal for stacks of Shell gallon oil cans. When modelling a scrap metal load for a gondola remaber the source of the metal effects the load. Loads from a automobile factory will be mainly scraps of bright steel sheet. Loads from a demolished industrial structure will be girders, ladders, wheels etc. Acarefull y dismantled structure might have scrap girders loaded on a flat car.
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Robert Allan
Looks like this car may have been an overload. The scrap on the ground is an attempt to adjust the weight. Scrap dealers were notoriously bad at judging weight in my field days.
Bob Allan Omaha
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Hudson Leighton
I think a load of tin can scrap would be hard to overload, lots of air space.
-Hudson
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Tony Thompson
Yeah, funny how the bad estimates were always on the high side.
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Tony Thompson
On Nov 26, 2021, at 7:57 AM, Robert Allan via groups.io <robert.allan32@...> wrote:
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leakinmywaders
HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources sliced with scissors into 2-3" strips, rolled between the thumb and fingers, and mass trimmed to roughly 1/16-inch lengths with scissors. A good mindless modeling activity while watching TV. Glued with dilute white glue to a black foam core base, dulled with dustings of dark gray and red oxide chalk, affixed with Dullcote.
Chris Frissell Polson, MT
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Wow, that is outstanding! I will never toss another aluminum foil top! 😁 Tim O'Connor
On 11/26/2021 7:41 PM, leakinmywaders
via groups.io wrote:
HO scale can load for a PTSX (Proleride Transportation Systems) recycled steel quad hopper. Aluminum foil tops from canned drinks, mainly Sanpellegrino, and a few other miscellaneous foil sources sliced with scissors into 2-3" strips, rolled between the thumb and fingers, and mass trimmed to roughly 1/16-inch lengths with scissors. A good mindless modeling activity while watching TV. Glued with dilute white glue to a black foam core base, dulled with dustings of dark gray and red oxide chalk, affixed with Dullcote. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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