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P2k Mather 40' SS Muncie and Western box car MWR 1272
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I recently bought a P2K Mather 40' boxcar. Car Number MWR 1272. Weigh Date is Mather at Chicago Ridge 9-48. My 1950 Westerfied OER shows the car but the 1959 Westerfield OER shows all steel 40' boxcars. I model 1957-1967 and want to see if this car made it to 1957. It's a really nice model and regardless it will stay in the collecton. Any help on dating this will be much appreciated
Happy Thanksgiving, Bill McCoy Jax, FL |
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Richard Townsend
My January 1958 ORER shows 8 cars in the series MWR 1281-1299 and 62 cars in the series MWR 1101-1265. That leaves out MWR 1272. Anyway, as I recall the prototype of the P2K Mather cars were not as tall as the prototype MWR cars. In other words, the model is a slight foobie. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
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From: Bill McCoy <wpmccoy@...> To: main@RealSTMFC.groups.io Sent: Thu, Nov 24, 2022 11:05 am Subject: [RealSTMFC] P2k Mather 40' SS Muncie and Western box car MWR 1272 I recently bought a P2K Mather 40' boxcar. Car Number MWR 1272. Weigh Date is Mather at Chicago Ridge 9-48. My 1950 Westerfied OER shows the car but the 1959 Westerfield OER shows all steel 40' boxcars. I model 1957-1967 and want to see if this car made it to 1957. It's a really nice model and regardless it will stay in the collecton. Any help on dating this will be much appreciated
Happy Thanksgiving, Bill McCoy Jax, FL |
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brianleppert@att.net
Bill, the July 1957 ORER shows 75 cars in the MWR 1201-1275 listing. Inside height was 8'-8".
Brian Leppert Carson City, NV |
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spsalso
The next ORER (October 1957) maintains that same info.
Ed Edward Sutorik |
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Thanks guys. Looks like I lucked up re the date. Also I measured what would be the IH and it's 8' 8" on the model. I think there was a Sunshine model of the mather boxcars that was taller.
Bill McCoy Jax, FL . |
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Philip Dove
I recall that one of the P2k matcher cattle cars had some minor dimensional compromise so both double deck and single deck cars could be made from the same body. |
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Philip Dove
Sorry should have read the header more carefully |
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Bill, there was indeed a 'tall Mather' kit from Sunshine, kit 103. See attached for details.
Craig Zeni Mayberry NC |
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Sunshine also produced kits 6.1 to 6.4 which were 7-8, 8-0, 8-5 and 8-7 Mather box cars :-) And both single and double deck Mather stock cars (I think the Proto 2000 kit was a double deck?) On 11/25/2022 6:55 PM, Craig Zeni wrote: Bill, there was indeed a 'tall Mather' kit from Sunshine, kit 103. See attached for details. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts |
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