NYC boxcar 163277
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Tony's comment inspired me to do some digging... Technically, Standard Railway Equipment become a SUBSIDIARY of Stanray Corporation, and both names appear together in the 1961 Car Builder Cyclopedia. So we probably should not refer to the railroad products as "Stanray" regardless of the era -- SRE or SRECO is more precise. Seems to me I've seen "SRE" used before. But poking around led me to this collection of RAILROAD ADVERTISEMENTS which is definitely worth a visit! There are over 2,000 ads here in the 1950-2011 collection and most of them seem to be from the 1950's. http://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains Tim O' A.T. Kott wrote: |
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Tony Thompson
Tim O'Connor wrote:
I first realized the timing on the Stanray change when I was systematically going through all issues of Railway Age, over 25 years ago when researching for the PFE book. The Stanray ads in the magazine suddenly appeared in about 1961. Previously the term had never surfaced in their ads. I later saw a 1961 Cyc, as Tim describes. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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proto48er
Ed - Many, many thanks!!! You have been a tremendous help in keeping us on the prototype "straight and narrow!" Anxiously awaiting an import....
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rwitt_2000
Found this ad for a diagonal pane roof in that collection for 1955. They use the term "Standard".
Waide Collection of Vintage Railroad Advertisements 1950 - Present - WaidePhoto
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ROGER HINMAN
Back to the original question. I have a copy of New York Central drawing Y-54262 titled "General Arrangement, All Steel Roof, Freight Cars" dated Apr 24, 1946 which is applicable to Lot 743-B as well as five other contemporary lots.
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No mention is made on this drawing of who the supplier is but it's obviously the vendor being discussed. The intermediate roof sheets( qty 10) are raised panel type with a two inch high profile, the two end sheets are flat This drawing is available from the NYC Historical Society on their CD 157. Roof General Arrangements were prepared for the majority of the NYC box cars and are a better source of information than diagram books or full car general arrangrments. Roger Hinman On Jul 12, 2014, at 4:13 PM, rwitt_2000@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
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Bob, that box car -- 19682 -- is almost certainly a Wabash box car built by General American in 1953, series 19500-19799 Tim At 7/12/2014 04:13 PM Saturday, you wrote: Found this ad for a diagonal pane roof in that collection for 1955. They use the term "Standard". |
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David
Judging by this:
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
looks like SRE started out in St. Louis. David Thompson |
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Dave Nelson
Roger, the answer is on drawing T-54247
Dave Nelson
p.s. I also endorse the utility of the NYC Historical Society CD’s. They can be a bit expensive but when you compute the per drawing cost it usually works out to dirt cheap.
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No mention is made on this drawing of who the supplier is but it's obviously the vendor being discussed. The intermediate roof sheets( qty 10) are raised panel type with a two inch high profile, the two end sheets are flat
This drawing is available from the NYC Historical Society on their CD 157. Roof General Arrangements were prepared for the majority of the NYC box cars and are a better source of information than diagram books or full car general arrangrments.
Roger Hinman |
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