Rollie and any one else who cares,
Technically Budd had a patent on the welding of stainless steel. A
process they called "shot welding". To the best of my knowledge there are no
Budd built cars without fluted roofs, but they produced many cars for several
railroads that had what modelers have termed "slab sides". These cars had
three large steel bars that run the length of the car under the windows. The
fluting that we modelers, especially ones from California, find so appealing
was intended to add strength to the car body. Therefore when Budd built cars
without the flutes for the likes of the PRR, MP, DL&W, and others I'd have to
look up, they had to add the "slabs" to increase the strength of the fluteless
sides. The only cars I know of that were not built by Budd, but had fluted
roofs were a series of sleepers built for the PRR and ACL where Pullman bought
the roofs from Budd and licensed the shot welding process. They screwed it up
the first time and had to buy more roofs. The stainless overlays of the
Cor-Ten cars caused bad rusting of the Cor-Ten which is why very few of these
cars made it to Amtrak.
Jamie Bothwell
Bethlehem, PA
On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Rollain Mercier wrote:
> Incidentally, the cars were meant to be models of Pullman smooth side
> steel cars. Budd had the patents on stainless cars at that time and
> all of them were fluted. Pullman did produce some fluted side cars in
> the fifties but they were overlays on regular (or Cor-Ten) steel
> sides. The New Haven had a bunch of 'em.
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