Re: Be a patron of the narrow gauge model building arts??
Posted by Jim Courtney on Oct 31, 2021; 1:30am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Be-a-patron-of-the-narrow-gauge-model-building-arts-tp17065p17086.html
Hey Keith, good to hear your input.
Define: I support the C&S Baggage 1 and 2 project. Does this mean that you want to join Mike and I and underwrite the Baggage 1 and 2 project, or is this merely a vague promise to buy one if/when Bill produces the kit?? (Just messing with you back).
I agree, the C&S RPO-coaches 40-43 would be high on my list for passenger kits to produce, but it seems to me that the head end baggage cars would be the first priority. Those poor On3 folks never even got a brass RPO 13!
As to the Peninsular coal cars, I doubt many made it past 1916 and the USSA requirements, although Maxwell's roster in The Pictorial Supplement . . . lists the cars as off the roster in 1923. As to MOW service, Derrell Poole's table in the back of Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII lists 4889 converted with disposition unknown. Coal 4796 was the only Peninsular coal to be converted to a cinder car along with the St Charles conversions, numbered 0108, scrapped 1938. Maxwell lists MOW car C&S 084 as converted from Peninsular coal 4826 and used as a truck car, scrapped in 1932. You'd need to cut down the sides to the single lower board, 12" tall:
Maxwell also lists Peninsular flat car 1070 being converted to C&S tool car number 088, scrapped in 1931:
And then there was this Peninsular coal:
Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII, page 159.
I have no idea what the car number is, but it served as the boom car for wrecking derrick 099, surviving into the late 1930s. The car still has its gently tapered side sills and some of the original tapered side stakes. All the extra stake pockets seem in place as well. I'll bet that a few other Peninsular coals also survived in MOW service.
Combine 20 wasn't used much in later years because it had been converted to C&S 025 in 1925 for the wrecking crew, and mostly hung out on a siding in Denver, with the derrick. So, you see, you could use a combine number 20 (painted red with a "button herald"), visiting Leadville on the wreck train (need to build that derrick though).
As to your Indiana Gulch trestle, you don't really need to install those extra stringers--just cut them to length, stain them and pile them by the ROW. Pose some of your little people putting one stringer in position . . . it will give Chris something to watch for the next few years.
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Be-a-patron-of-the-narrow-gauge-model-building-arts-tp17065p17086.html
Hey Keith, good to hear your input.
Define: I support the C&S Baggage 1 and 2 project. Does this mean that you want to join Mike and I and underwrite the Baggage 1 and 2 project, or is this merely a vague promise to buy one if/when Bill produces the kit?? (Just messing with you back).
I agree, the C&S RPO-coaches 40-43 would be high on my list for passenger kits to produce, but it seems to me that the head end baggage cars would be the first priority. Those poor On3 folks never even got a brass RPO 13!
As to the Peninsular coal cars, I doubt many made it past 1916 and the USSA requirements, although Maxwell's roster in The Pictorial Supplement . . . lists the cars as off the roster in 1923. As to MOW service, Derrell Poole's table in the back of Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII lists 4889 converted with disposition unknown. Coal 4796 was the only Peninsular coal to be converted to a cinder car along with the St Charles conversions, numbered 0108, scrapped 1938. Maxwell lists MOW car C&S 084 as converted from Peninsular coal 4826 and used as a truck car, scrapped in 1932. You'd need to cut down the sides to the single lower board, 12" tall:
Maxwell also lists Peninsular flat car 1070 being converted to C&S tool car number 088, scrapped in 1931:
And then there was this Peninsular coal:
Narrow Gauge Pictorial VIII, page 159.
I have no idea what the car number is, but it served as the boom car for wrecking derrick 099, surviving into the late 1930s. The car still has its gently tapered side sills and some of the original tapered side stakes. All the extra stake pockets seem in place as well. I'll bet that a few other Peninsular coals also survived in MOW service.
Combine 20 wasn't used much in later years because it had been converted to C&S 025 in 1925 for the wrecking crew, and mostly hung out on a siding in Denver, with the derrick. So, you see, you could use a combine number 20 (painted red with a "button herald"), visiting Leadville on the wreck train (need to build that derrick though).
As to your Indiana Gulch trestle, you don't really need to install those extra stringers--just cut them to length, stain them and pile them by the ROW. Pose some of your little people putting one stringer in position . . . it will give Chris something to watch for the next few years.
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
| Free forum by Nabble | Edit this page |