and he notes -
Midgage (aka Sylvania) passenger cars preceded Gilbert's extruded
aluminum cars by a few years. As I recall the story told to me by
Willis Stewart (Midgage's owner) A. C. saw some of his passenger cars
at a trade show and hired Bill to design the tooling for the Flyer
cars. In payment Bill received a ton of K-5 castings (boiler and
tender shells, trailing truck, cylinders, etc.) with the details
under the boiler's running boards ground off and blackened all of
which then became the Midgage PRR Pacific.
BTW the car body extrusions would have been 16' long. I remember Gene
Fletcher having a couple and would hacksaw of a length when somebody
wanted a car body. I still have one he cut off for me!
Raleigh in Steamey Mainey...
At 04:52 PM 7/17/2010, David Engle wrote:
>
>
>OK, I'm not sure about the passenger cars, there are two stories,
>one is this, the other is the guy who ran Midgage had AF run 6'-long
>extrusions of the AF 660 cars, then he made full-length versions of
>what he wanted. The only one I ever saw/have has an AF boat-tail
>bolted to a piece that would give a full-length car.
>
>My apologies to those who think I have diarrhea of the
>brain/mouth/typing hand.
>
>DJE
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