Here is a good shot of the car end. I took this in Gladstone MI.
Jim
Jim,
I can’t tell from the end photo whether the “crosspieces” are made from rectangular section tubing (unlikely, I think) or channel section with the open end down. Can you tell from the original? Thanks for the photo, by the way.
Ed
Ed,
Your welcome,
I have been asking myself that since I scanned in the photo. No, the original does not make it any clearer, sorry to say.
I have some other shots but none show the ends.
Jim
To me it looks channeled. If you look closely to the fourth cross bracing from the bottom, you see a gap. Also on that bracing you see it’s bent up a little, if it was boxed tubing that would of been less likely.
The Soo Line by Patrick Dorin on Page 158 has a Soo Line Railroad issued photo of these Bulkheads taken from a higher angle.
It appears to be a Sharp U Channel in the ends. From the shadows or dirt it looks like it is open from the top.
Andrew
Buy the Spring 2004 issue of The SOO from the Soo Line Historical & Technical Society for this article for the full details. www.sooline.org.
Andrew
I rember seeing at the paper mill at Wausau a Brown Soo Line bulk head Gondola. Do any of you have any pictures of it. I would also like to find some decals for it too.
Andrew, could you please send me that photo.
The modlers choice model has those same bulkheads like the one in Andews picture. But I think they are sold seperatly. So when they come out with the model, mabe I can find out where they got them. But are those the same bulkheads as in Jim and my photo?
http://www.modelerschoice.com/freightcars/future/ppmpv108.htm
Here are a couple more. I also bumped up the DPI on the above photo.
Jim
In the Soo Line by Patrick Dorin the Brown Gondola had an open frame square bulkhead.
Try to find it later.
Andrew
The photo of the Brown or Oxide Gondola with Bulkheads is of SOO LINE 8485. This is one of the cars built in the 1950’s. Those old gondolas were modified and repainted in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. The open square tube frames are available through Walthers from Keystone Locomotive Works. It is cast metal. You could make your own version from styrene.
 Gondola, Tall, Open End Bulkhead Walthers Part # 395-54 HO scale, $2.95, not currently in stock at Walthers, Expected: Unknown|
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Add-on details simulate equipment used on freight cars handling pulpwood. |
On the http://www.sooline.org/ in 2006 there was a notice that soon there will be a book covering all the Soo Line freight cars. They were looking for contributions. There were sample pages. They have already published photos that were better than most of my photos. Sometime in 2007 the SLHTS will publish the comprehensive freight car book.
Andrew
If you hit reply and quote what was from the post, you will get the URL for the original photo.
Andrew
This is a photo of a WC SOO LINE Bulkhead Gondola with green lettering. It is a slightly different design than others.
Andrew