are hoppers.
Roy J Meissner
- Original Message -
From: Jamie Bothwell
To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: AM plug door box cars
Bob,
So the Santa Fe used a refrigerator car to haul
: Saturday, February 12, 2011 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: AM plug door box cars
Just getting to reading some of the emails from the last two weeks
(spent in the States on annual ski trip).
Why not just plain Hops for hoppers. I can taste that beer already.
Rance Velapoldi
Hi Tom;
Some time ago I posted a photo of an AM car modified with PRS reefer parts and
painted for SFRD:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/842233173/pic/list
The work isn't mine, I bought it on the Ebay.
I recall finding some prototype photos on-line that were close. I don't
The current crop--and most recent crop of refrigerator cars--does not include
anything like an SFRD prototype. SFRD, however, converted many of its cars to
the plug-door type and had its conversion program going as early as 1953, so I
understand.
Does the AM plug-door car resemble even
The AM plug-door boxcar is based on Santa Fe's SFRB 40-ft. plug-door boxcar
fleet. For a number of years, at least, the prototype car for the model was
sitting, sans trucks, here in Ft. Madison, IA. I haven't checked lately to see
if it is still there.
When I first photographed it in 1983, it
Bob,
Do you have an idea of when the plug-door car which the AM model reflects first
appeared in the SFRD fleet?
Tom
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Tom:
The AM car is a replica of an SFRB car. These were insulated plug door
boxcars, most of which were 50-ft. cars. They were not up set up for cooling,
only insulated to keep product temperatures steady, much like a picnic cooler.
I considered myself fortunate to find this car, since the
Bob,
So the Santa Fe used a refrigerator car to haul refrigerators. I guess
that makes sense. I suppose they hauled boxes in boxcars. What did they haul
in hopper cars?
Jamie Bothwell
Back at work in
Bethlehem, PA
On Feb 3, 2011, at 6:36 PM, shabbona_rr wrote:
When I first
Grasshoppers from the farmbelt John Armstrong
- Original Message -
From: Jamie Bothwell
To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: AM plug door box cars
Bob,
So the Santa Fe used a refrigerator
Hopper cars carry rabbits. Rabbits are hoppers.
Roy J Meissner
- Original Message -
From: Jamie Bothwell
To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: AM plug door box cars
Bob,
So the Santa Fe used
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