Maybe the most of us did not want to read what you posted on your web site.8>) Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was born with nothing and I have most of it left
On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:20 AM, John Degnan wrote: > O.k, folks... since so few of you have apparently taken time to > either visit the web page I built for this project or actually > bothered to READ what I wrote on the page, I'll reproduce it here > so that MAYBE everyone can see my reasoning for picking this > "shorty" auto-carrier as the project car... > > "QUOTE" > Along about the year 1954 the New York Central Railroad converted > one of its 53' 6" flat cars (possibly a GSC flat car) into an open- > side auto carrier capable of carrying 6 automobiles. The > conversion utilized a modified version of the "Auto-Loader" rack > system built by the Evans Products Co. which was typically used > inside of boxcars. The main problem with the Evans rack inside box > cars was the slow process of loading each boxcar individually since > the ramps inside every boxcar had to be lowered and raised to get > the cars onto the top row. This auto-carrier solved that problem > by having open sides for drive-on loading and open ends with drop- > ends that enabled ALL of the connected carriers to be loaded by > lowering the ramp on only the end car in a string, much the same > way it is done today with modern cars. > > Unfortunately, and for whatever reason, the NYC apparently wasn't > sold on the idea, and only ONE of these cars was built. The Union > Pacific Railroad had some similar cars, but they were not the same > as the NYC car. > > S-Helper Service already offers a GSC 53' 6" flat car that is IDEAL > (bordering on PERFECT) for a model of this car. I have not been > able to verify if the NYC car that was used in this conversion was > a GSC flat, but it was the exact same length and had a very similar > side and overhead profile. I have talked with Don at SHS about > offering their GSC flat car with this Evans rack as an add on part, > but he believes there would not be enough interest in such a car to > justify production of just the rack system to go with the already- > existing flat car model. So I have thrown this web page together > to try and determine if, indeed there is enough interest in it to > see it done. Since the SHS flat would be the base model for the > auto-rack, the model would be compatible with BOTH HI-RAIL and > SCALE track and models. > > So my fellow S scalers... this is where you come in. If you would > like to see a model of this car done, all you have to do is contact > Don at SHS and let him know that you'd like one... or two, or five > or MORE! Yes, only ONE prototype of this car was ever built, but > unless you're a prototype modeler, there is no reason this should > prevent us from having more than one model of the car. I am, in > fact, a prototype modeler, and a SCALE ONLY modeler, but since I > have decided to model a fictitious road in freelance fashion, if a > model of this car gets produced, I would just pretend that my > fictitious road had a fleet of them. > > Check out the following photos and concept/patent drawings of this > car : > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoLoaderArticle > (Small).jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoLoader.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack00.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack01.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack02.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack03.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack04.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack05.jpg > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack06.jpg > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
