and he notes - Here is a link to a GM&O car delivered in 1968. It includes a drawing of the car:
http://home.mindspring.com/~paducah/icg40.htm Red Caboose offers such a car in 'N' Gauge and has a photo as well as a brief history on this page: http://www.red-caboose.com/cgi-bin/e_catalog/catalog.cgi?&page=new_product_pages/n_coil.html&shop=redcaboose&language=eng&curr=0&session=4186c8376aaaabf5&cart_id=32484341x27306 While not S Gauge it is an interesting highlight of the prototype. I have some photos taken in Cumberland, MD back in the 80s of the covers sitting on a pile of ties and if I recall Lionel had similar covers which Sam Powell adapted to S. Ed Schumacher also made the covers, (from the photos), but used them on an AF gondola. Lionel's coil car is shown here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4148&item=5929831811&rd=1 Or you can navigate their site if you can figure out how. The covers can be found for $3.00 each on this site: http://www.justrains.com/lioaccess.htm Articles on building these cars can be found in October and December 1996 issues of Mainline Modeler. Apparently there were several variations of Evans Coil Cars going back to 1964 with model #EP-200 demonstrator, (subsequent production models varied by year). The prototype was extensively rebuilt as shown in the photo on this site: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-e/ep200.jpg And there are after sale manufacturers of covers too. (Trinity Rail Components is one). As well as cars with no covers at all! http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/pc622659jwj.jpg Most steel coil shipments went by covered gondola until the Evans cars appeared. Big users were the appliance manufacturers as well as auto makers so a small town manufacturer could get an occasional shipment. In my home town, the White Mountain Freezer Co., (close to where I lived), unloaded coiled steel shipped in boxcars on the team track and trucked it to the plant. Although they had a siding it might have been a weight problem. Hope this helps, Raleigh At 04:19 PM 11/1/2004, Alex Binkley wrote: >Hi all: >actually it might aid the cause if someone could point out some online >photos of these >cars. as we know Ed L wants some, we are well on our way. though I wonder >why Ed wants such modern cars? > cheers Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
