I’m in search of interior layouts and underbody equipment layouts especially for the 85’ hospital cars, also photos either in serce or builder’s photos. Anybody know where I should be looking?
If you have access to an archive, check Railway Age issues during the war, as they wrote up these and other military cars.
Pdq64,
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Here’s one article citation found via a keyword search at the Index Of Magazines (top of this page):
U.S. Army Hospital Car Railroad Model Craftsman, July 1945, page 25
( “BARKLEY, JOHN R.”, CAR, DRAWING, HOSPITAL, MILITARY, PASSENGER, PROTOTYPE, RMC )
Don’t know if it is 85’ or whether it includes the interior. You can order a photocopy from the NMRA’s Kalmbach Memorial Library:
http://www.nmra.org/library/
The fee is reasonable, even if you’re not a member.
You may want to visit this site:
http://military.railfan.net
And, do a Google search. You will have some hits, I just checked.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
A FAN AFTER MY OWN HEART!!! [^]
Yes, - the RMC does show floor plans inside the cars.
It doesn’t really show the underbody details too much, but I do know (from secondhand reference many of them had “Ice Boxes” underneath for air-conditioning. They were Iced at platforms. It does show some of the underbody details though.
It took me 15 years, but I finaly scored on old Walthers kit at a swap meet. The instructions show the clayout of the equipment.
Check out these websites:
http://www.goldcoast-railroad.org/hospital.htm
http://www.alaskarails.org/
http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas72&local_base=CLAS72
Check out the website for Letterman General Hospital, Presido of San Fransisco.
The cars were open like a baggage car, with stretchers suspended on racks. Nurse’s station and intensive care was in a partitioned compartment at one end.
Also, check on old picturers for MONON RR & ALASKA RR. They got the old cars, refurbished them as “new” streamliners, and used them for many years after WWII.
Overland is comming out with some models of them too - $$$$$(++) naturally.
there is also a rr museum in north carolina somewhere that has a ww2 hospital car not sure where in nc it is you might want to do a search for it
tom