Thanks guys!
It was the Furness Railway cars I was interested in (and White
got it wrong the FR was in England). Glad to here the Q had
some too.
Thanks also for info on the Schoen cars.
My copy of White is on order with Amazon as I type!
Les Gilpin
Miskin
Wales
UK
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, Ken Martin <kmartin@c...>
wrote:
> If you can get a copy of John White's "The American RR Freight
Car" pgs
> 572-580 he writes about LaMothe and the Huntingdon car
works. There are
> also "engravings" of several cars including two gons built for
the
> Furness Railway in Scotland.
>
> In brief: In the 1860's Bernard J. La Mothe developed the idea
of using
> iron pipe to build RR cars. In the 1870's the National Tube
Works
> started building pipe cars and they were sold to several
railroads. Many
> were sold to leasing companies primarily the Southern Iron
Car Co. In
> 1890 the Southern was seized by crediters including the
Huntingdon Car
> Co. which had built many, however refinancing failed and
concept of pipe
> cars died. However thousands had been built and they lasted
till about
> 1900. Problems with the pipes coming loose and problems
installing
> automtic couplers and air brakes led them to be scrapped
rather than
> rebuilt. The other problem was having a wood car carpenter
work on an
> iron car when he had neither the tools or training as Charlie
saidk.
> Some were also built for the Southern Pacific narrow gauge
and the
> Denver, South Park and Pacific, predecesser to the CB&Q
owned C&S
> (mandantory CB&Q content 8^). In recent years remains of two
ex-SP cars
> have been found in the Nevada desert and are at the Nevada
RR Museum in
> Carson City waiting work.
>
> Ken Martin
>
> "lesgilpin " wrote:
> >
> > Slightly off topic guys but I don't want to join another Yahoo
> > Group just to ask one question (or two). Someone may be
able
> > to at least point me in the right direction.
> >
> > I'm trying to trace tubular framed or 'gas pipe' freight cars of
1888
> > built by the 'Huntingdon Car Works' and early steel hoppers
> > build around 1898 by the Schoen Pressed Steel Company.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a suitable contact or group to track
> > down these sources?
> >
> > (Although I model the CBQ in N, I'm looking for to build some
old
> > time cars that were used in England but built in the USA!).
> >
> > thanks for allowing the interruption!
> >
> > Les Gilpin
> > Cardiff
> > Wales
> > UK
> >
> >
> >
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