Even more oddly, the issue of RMC that just arrived has an article by Mont Switzer on the Ball Line Mather cars with much helpful information for anyone modeling them.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > Oddly enough, it turns out there is a way in which the MR index info is > occasionally still visible. I did a Google search on "Mather boxcar drawing" > and found a cached search of the index on "Mather" which showed all the > related articles. > > Drawings are here: > > The Mather boxcar: draft horse of American boxcars > Railroad Model Craftsman, February 1991 page 85 > ( BOXCAR, DRAWING, "LOFTON, MARTIN", MATHER, FREIGHTCAR, PROTOTYPE, RMC ) > > B&O Mather stock car > Mainline Modeler, September 1987 page 66 > Article also published in The Best of Mainline Modeler's Freight Cars Volume > 2 Book icon, page 43 > ( B&O, DRAWING, MATHER, "SCHLERF, GARY", STOCKCAR, FREIGHTCAR, PROTOTYPE, MM > ) > > There are several other articles with photos of the cars but not drawings. > > The Mather cars had a unique roof, but one that should be reasonable to > fabricate. The truss frame members would be standard angle and Z bar rather > than hat section. Otherwise, it should be a straight forward conversion. The > boxcars did come in several heights, the best known (Ball Line) were > unusually tall for the period. > > Pieter E. Roos > > > --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have four kits of the so-called seven-panel box > > car. From the plans and all, it appears to me that I > > could revise the cars in construction somewhat so that they > > looked more like a MATHER box car. Of course, I do not > > have any MATHER plans and have no idea now how to find such > > plans, given the withdrawal of the Kalmbach magazine > > index. Perusal of Ted Culotta's article in RMC on > > MATHER box cars leads me to believe that I could create a > > model using the KINSMAN kit. Has anyone tried this or > > have a view about it? _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
