--- In [email protected], "Tom Hawley" <t.hawley@...> wrote:
>
> Whom was I talking to recently about drop-end gondolas? Doesn't really
> matter, but below is an interesting picture of exactly what the purpose is
> of such a car. They also frequently carry loads of steel construction
> components, I-beams & the like.
>
> There's nothing wrong with any of our S scale RTR gondolas, but one might
> also consider the Lionel O-27 gondola with the approximately 49 S-scale foot
> inside length. If you look at it and think about it, its prototype is a
> drop-end gondola. That's the reason it has the brake wheel(s) on the side
> rather than the end. (Having two brake wheels on such a short car is
> strictly a Lionelism.)
>
> The Lionel car can be used as-is, though it's a bit too wide for S and would
> better be narrowed down. The hardest part of narrowing down an O-27 car is
> the seam at the ends. If one were to do one of these, that problem would be
> obviated - You just remove the ends and put them in your scrap pile. The
> seam in the floor is hidden by the load. Click below.
>
> Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: toddsyr
> Subject: Re: [MFCL] Gondola pix by Ron Hawkins
> Now THAT'S a loaded gon!
>
> http://pfe_coi.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2472268
>
> Todd K. Stearns
>
The 65' drop end gons were often used this way, and the flats on either end
or both as in this case were called "idler" flats. They were semi-permanently
coupled by use of heavy wire wrapped around the cut levers and tied to the
stirrups to prevent them from being inadvertently pulled by a crew member or
kids out for "fun" (a favorite game they liked to play in yards in residential
areas while a train is sitting) Another detail to add to cars loaded like this
is small "DO NOT HUMP" signs tacked onto their tackboards. (for obvious reasons
<G>)
Bud Rindfleisch
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