Russ
I must confess that the thread "moved" slightly.
The original question related to roofed gondolas after someone saw a model
of one on the Modellers Choice web site. I offered the road numbers and
classes of various cars listed in ORER's, etc. as being roofed gons.
Reference was then made to a photo of a straight sill car in Mike Spoor's
book, with the subsequent suggestion of GM-6 as a candidate. The focus then
switched back to the roofed model which is numbered "83526". This number was
allocated to a GM-6B, a class which was not listed as being equipped with
roofs, which suggested that the number was bogus.
Looking at the model on the website, it looks like there are either other
decals underneath or that they were applied manually as a temporary measure
rather than as a production sample. It may well be that the end product
will carry another road number(s).
As regards the history of roofed gons, I was born in the wrong country to
see these cars in action (right age, wrong place), and can offer little to
that discussion other than what I have read.
Regards
Rupert
----- Original Message -----
From: "East Pass" <EastPass@19main.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Covered Gons
>
> Rupert,
>
> Have been watching this thread. Got me totally confused.
> What is this "GM-6B" stuff? As to which gons had roofs that
> could change rather frequently. For example some of the 833xx
> cars had roofs put on for flat tinplate loading out of American
> Can in Hammond. This did not turn out very well. Don't think
> that American Can liked it. They were also very difficult to
> inspect and monitor. Think they were trying to use crossbars
> for load securement and it did not work. They had already been
> using 47xxx series cars with a floating loading plan that could
> be handled with forklifts. Customer wanted to move more tonnage
> but the gons did not work out. Instead they got 103xx series
> cars, not for their size, but for the higher load limit. What
> happened to the roofed cars? Probably rolled over to Inland or
> Granite City Steel. Inland at least was not very careful as to
> putting roofs back on and I think a few were lost there.
>
> With the advent of purpose built coil cars the covered gons
> started losing roofs as the Customers no longer needed them.
>
> Since the roofs were not a structural part of the car they were
> more of a Marketing tool than anything to do with car design.
>
> Russ
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