Very nice Bear!
It handled the ‘S’ curves beautifully.
Dave
Why do I have the “munchies” after watching that video?
Let’s see, a D&RG Cookie box car, Coors (on ice I hope), Cold Cuts form Oscar Mayer, Candy from Baby Ruth and Cheese from Kraft! You have all my favorite “C” food covered!
I’ll need the depressed-center flat car just to haul my bloated carcass around!
Thanks for the “eye-candy” Bear…
Ed
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Ed:
I hadn’t bothered to look closely at the other cars in the train. (Actually I was waiting for the flat car to side swipe something!)
Now you have me headed for the pantry![swg][(-D]
Dave
Well I’ll never get an award for “Speedy Modeler”, but have finally got to the “almost” finished stage.
As I’ve said before, I have difficulty while making parts in accurately duplicating them to a standard that I’m pleased with, and the truck mounted brake reservoirs proved the point, again! Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite prepared to cheat in as much that I’ve paired them in so much as they are on opposite sides of the car and can’t be observed at the same time, and while the discrepancies may be minor and Bearly barely discernible, they’re not to contest quality.
The stirrups, hand rails, and brake staff were fabricated from .020” brass, the 4 stirrups needing five attempts, and I shouldn’t have used the .020” brass for the brake wheel shaft, because it’s too thick for the Tichy brake wheels I’ve used. .0125 phosphor bronze wire, also available from Tichy, and of which I have some, I should have used!!! [banghead] The grab irons are Tichy.
This is not a criticism of Tichy, rather a reflection on my big paws, and that my rolling stock should be able to be ha
Bear!
Well worth the wait! That is a really nice looking flat car! I’m curious to see what you will add for a load. That could be a neat project just in itself.
I just re-read the whole thread. Great tutorial! I might just put one on my project list.
Cheers Bear!!!
Dave
And well you should be, as that’s a great-looking and well-running car. [tup][tup]
I am curious, though, to know how your next door neighbour feels about having your trains passing through his basement? [swg]
Wayne
JaBear,
A fine looking product—quite a nice job. ! Was impressed with the two holes in the cement wall, takes tunnel modeling to new heights-!!
herrinchoker
Bear, It’s long anticipated, but well worth the wait! Looks phantastic! The decals look great, too. [tup][Y]
What kind of loads do you have planned?
BTW, speaking of such loads, for hardcore nuclear nostalgia buffs, Lawrence Livermore National Lab just relased a large batch of testing films this week, the first major group of these in about 20 years to see the light of day, err, to MAKE the light of day. This looks like slo-mo, but it’s not, just 8 Mt at 12,000 feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jFQw78uzo&index=14&list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5
Firstly, thanks for all the kind remarks.
Aaahh, the holes in the wall. The layout, in the video, belongs to a friend who is one of the founders of the local American Modellers Modular Group. On acquiring his new house, we had jokingly remarked that by “tunnelling” through the concrete block wall from “the train room” he could extend into and along the back wall of the 3 and a bit car garage so to have all his modules set up at all times. As evidenced in the video, he did so and started on helixes at both ends of the layout in order to allow for a second deck for even more modules. However due to a change in employment, the train room work bench has become his new business venture work bench, and as his business is taking off, more work space is required, so much so, that the “train room” looks unlikely to continue to exist in that capacity!!
Loads?!
After I had applied the deck and bottom to the frame I cut two rectangular holes in the bottom and slipped in two pieces of .040” panel steel, cut to size, and using some silicone sealant affixed them in place. This was because I suddenly got an attack of the “
Bear,
Spent some time today looking around for anything new I could find. Nothing much really. I did look up the newer reporting marks, USCX. With that set of initials, you might start thinking it might stand for US Steel Carnegie Works, given the companies making up US Steel were merged together after the war. This included the Carnegie Works.
But no not that.
Maybe something related to the US government? It’s close to several other US government reporting marks, like USAX (Army) and USNX (Navy).
Nope not one of those.
Instead, USAX belonged to Willam G. Simon. Huh? Doesn’t sound like either a RR or a private car outfit. Not even sure there’s a connection, but there was a Willam G. Simon who was head of the Los Angeles FBI pffice and had some other suggestive connections that in the context of the 1950s US nuclear program might be relevant. See this obit:
http://articles.latimes.com/1997/aug/14/news/mn-22332
The mystery certainly deepens, as does what happened to it.
Bear: Excellent work on the CISX car! Please contact me off list, my email is on my webpage. Tomd
I found a William G. Simon that had owned a pulpwood car? Perhaps the same fellow? Perhaps being a lawyer in Ravenna, Ohio he was in charge of the receivership of a bankrupt company?
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=USCX
It has reporting marks of USCX. [edit]
Upon closer examination of the photo of the pulpwood car it would seem that the CAR is lettered UCSX ! Even more curiouser? I’m guessing it is simply a typo at RR Picture Archives.
UCSX is Union Camp paper company.
Ed
Ed,
Yeah, came across that, but realized it didn’t fit because it was too recent, as well as the typo issue with reporting marks.
What could help here is if someone had a more complete collection of ORERs. I have a 1944, 1953 (NMRA edition), and a 1960. Can anyone check any of the intermediate issues to try and spot it. One handicap is that the list of heavy-duty flats is composed of RR-owner cars soesn’t include privately-owned cars. You have to look those up in each o the private car listings.
Found a couple more photos of the CISX 500 depressed flat car. Four photos about half way down the page
Very interesting. Thanks for the find! None of the comments made to that page so far suggest that they know about the car’s heritage.
Thanks for the link to the “new” photos and the extra information they provide, Tom. I still have yet to make a load for the car, so….
Cheers, the Bear. [:)]
Bear, I don’t know much about four truck depressed center flat cars, but that model looks really good.
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Congratulations.
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-Kevin
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