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November 22, 2015 at 4:43 pm in reply to: Accurail announces a 36′ DS boxcar MP is on the list #7469
Might have some good potential for those forties-era bunk cars.
I assume molded-on door and grabs, but at least grabs are easier to carve off than ladders are.
Ron Merrick
Pardon me for taking this discussion down to 4-year-old level, but where can I get an SD-40 (not a -2)?
These would be the 1967 order, 700-719. They’re really still too late for me, and they weren’t permitted on my division as far as I know, but I’m curious.
Ron Merrick
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Views of the old train room which the new train room was intended to expand.
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That’d really be interesting, to find out where that lousy siding was where somebody decided it was a good idea to put a passenger train in the hole.
The coaches are gone by this time, and the wrecker hasn’t shown up yet. This was probably engine 2’s last trip because it shows scrapped 3/67 along with TP 1.
Ron Merrick
See also Dorin’s MoPac Freight Trains and Equipment, p. 61. This one and one of Nate’s photos illustrate the FHIX (Fruit Growers) cars, which were five-panel sides without the horizontal seam.
Ron Merrick
Here’s the first one I saw, and practically the only one I shot, because I wanted older cars.
Beware of doing decals, because almost every one of them has some sort of horribly botched buzzsaw, some almost as bad as those on some HO models 😯 One of Nate’s photos shows a normal one, but in my recollection those are rare. Either they’re a squashed oval, or a much wider distance from the buzzsaw to the OD, or the lettering inside the buzzsaw is an odd style, or it’s entirely off center like some of the junk you see on eBay. The photos posted so far show all of those variations.
I’d be interested in how these would be done, since most originated from ART cars with the horizontal rivet line. As for the roof hatches, I seem to remember seeing one from overhead in which the pressed steel parts of the hatch were cut out and a flat plate welded in, in other words just a flat rectangular buttweld.
Ron Merrick
I’d go for a few. Of course, I’d like the as-built 67000s. If they were made with this lettering scheme, they could be renumbered like the prototype did. Frankly, not that much difference in the lettering between the original and the 580000 series, but there are definite diffferences if you know where to look.
Ron Merrick
Charlie:
I have a dozen or so photos of early 70s work equipment, boarding and others, including several passenger cars. All are steel body. Interested?
RG7
Considering that this car is sandwiched between two outside-post mechanical reefers, at least one of which has been de-roofwalked, means this car lasted until at least 1966. The 1968 SoE does not list an X4680, but some broken numbers higher than that are listed as ‘Boarding’, which this car evidently was.
Ron Merrick
Dalman two-level trucks! Wonder how long those lasted?
Ron Merrick
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