Tom,
Please note that the Mark I to Mark V designation is for the flat cars, the
rail equipment, not the vans. I believe that many of the vans were
manufactured by Strick Manufacturing whose plant was in suburban
Philadelphia. Greenville Steel Car built many, if not most, of the NYC/MFVX
flats.
Terry Link's excellent New York Central/Canada Southern website is a great
source for information on the NYC Flexi-Vans. The NYC and its Merchant's
Despatch subsidiary (MFVX reporting marks) were by-far the largest fleet
owners.
www.canadasouthern.com
<http://www.canadasouthern.com/>
You'll have to root around a little, but his rosters have a lot of data
including dimensioned equipment diagrams for the various types of Flexi-Van
flats.
Regards,
DGL
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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Mack
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 10:56 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Flexi-Vans - Why no CB&Q's from Walthers
Dave:
Any idea where we can find details of each Flexi-Van trailer design
(Mark I through Mark V I presume)?
Group:
Any thoughts by anyone on the cars? Were there different designs to
the Flexi-Van cars themselves?
Tom Mack
Cincinnati, OH
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups. <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com> com, "Dave Lambert"
<dave@...> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
>
>
> It may be less that the CB&Q Flexi-Van flats were "unique", than
they were a
> Mark V model, a very late design incarnation of this equipment.
>
>
>
> What Walthers has chosen to bring out in the first iteration are
Mark III
> cars. This doesn't mean, of course, that Walthers will not, at some
later
> date, bring out cars painted for the Q Mark V on a Mark III frame.
Just a
> thought.
>
>
>
> Dave Lambert
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: CBQ@yahoogroups. <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com> com
[mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups. <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com> com] On Behalf Of
Tom Mack
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:10 AM
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups. <mailto:CBQ%40yahoogroups.com> com
> Subject: [CBQ] Flexi-Vans - Why no CB&Q's from Walthers
>
>
>
> Can someone explain again why Walthers may have dropped the CB&Q
> Flexi-Van trailers and cars from their upcoming release? Doesn't it
> have something to do with a unique design of the CB&Q equipment?
>
> Tom Mack
> Cincinnati, OH
>
>
>
>
>
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