car identification

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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What kind of car is this?? And does any one make a model of it? I don’t need it in that paint scheme though.

Thanks,
dekruif

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Dear Dekruif, I don’t know.[:I] I’m answering so you won’t feel like no one cares[:D] It looks like a 50ft outside braced box car. That’s the best I can do. [:(] I hope someone smarter can[;)] help you. LOL (Lot’s of luck) not (Laughing out Loud).[:o)]

Walter

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A customer of mine i.d.‘d this car as a Pullman-Standard 5344 50’ o.b. boxcar, available as an Athearn blue box kit if you can find one and is also in the RTR line in assorted roadnames.

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Could you tell me where to get B&M decals, with the black boston and Maine.

Thanks,
dekruif

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Try Highball Graphics, they specialise in New England area decals

http://mgdecals.com/boston_maine.htm

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Thanks I found them. another question. do you know where I might find the other side of that same boxcar?

Thanks again,

dekruif

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HUH!!!

This reminds me suspiciously of the story of the customer in the restaurant who was approached by his waiter who ask, “Sir, how did you find your steak?” to which the customer responded, “I just moved one of my peas and there it was!”

Crawl underneath; when you get to the other side of that same boxcar you will then be in the logical place to locate the other side of that same boxcar. Pray, don’t keep this a secret, now; promise me that if you do find the other side of that same boxcar you will let us all know.

HUH!!!

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I’m trying to find a Picture of the other side of the boxcar

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Even if you found another picture of the same car (and the appearance of the car is not identical to the picture posted), how would you know whether or not its really the other side?

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By which end the brake wheel is on. I cannot see the left end in that photograph, but the right end appears to not have the brake wheel, so the other side would have the brake wheel on the right end. Of course, unless one want to model the particular weathering and vandalism on that particular car, it really is not necessary to see the other side.

Here is a link to the listings for Athearn’s 5344 PS Boxcars

They do make a model of the B&M car in RTR and they used to make a kit.

I noticed one cannot used CTRL+V to paste with the new forum software, that is really annoying. Now I have to right click.

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Beg pardon, Pilgrim, but the right end of the car DOES have the brake wheel. Enlarge the photo and look very carefully at the bright green foliage just below the level of Kilroy’s hand. That vertical black line is the brake wheel, edge on. The rest of the mechanism blends in with the darker foliage, so it’s very difficult to see.

Other than the “unauthorized decorations,” the other side of the car should be virtually identical. The ends will differ, since only one end has brake gear, and the below-the-floor fittings will be oriented to the brake chain. The roof is symmetrical, side to side and end to end.

Chuck (who models prototype cars with long, foot-operated brake levers on both sides)

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I agree. I saved the photo to my computer and played with the brightness/contrast. The brake wheel is on the right.

Usually the only ways to tell are the location of the brake wheel (which is hidden by the background and difficult to see in the photo) or the orientation of the brake rigging (its unusual to have a photo where it can be clearly seen or even seen at all)

There are a few exceptions where the cars are not pained identically on both sides. Some I can think of:

  1. Rotory dump cars where the end with the rotating coupler is painted a different color from the rest of the car.

  2. Early Pacific Fruit Express Reefers that had the UP emplem on one side and the SP on the other.

  3. PFE cars with SP and UP on both sides during the period that one emblem (I don’t remenber which) was placed closer to the B end. (The SP was to the left of the UP on one side of the car and to the right of the UP on the other side)

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DSchmitt and tomikawaTT;

You are both wrong; this car’s brake wheel is currently leaning against the north wall inside the car shop where its been for the last 196 days since the car was in for maintenance.

I think that the other side of this car can best be found on the other side of this car!!! Just the other day I said to my wife, “Honey! Go around and see if the other side of the car is around on the other side of the car!” She did, and do you know what, that’s where it was at. I had been hunting for the other side of my car for six months!!! Don’t know why I didn’t think about looking around on the other side of the car before. Slow learner I guess!!