Rupert,
Look at the steel ends on the adjacent car. I don't think they had rolling pin
style ribs back then. I thought that was a mid 50's development.
The low number could be for a M of W car??
Thanks again to Jan for sharing. I have my wife Bev considering one of the
Bevier Mike shots for a watercolor.
Rob Manley
Midwest Mod-U-Trak
"Better modeling through personal embarrassment"
----- Original Message -----
From: Rupert & Maureen
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Box car 4120
John
I wondered about an exhibit car or similar, but the stencilling appeared to
be very "smudged" and the bottom corner of the door is
hardly exhibit quality.
Rupert
----- Original Message -----
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Box car 4120
Rupert
It is possible that this an exhibition car for the Chicago Railroad Fair in
1949. It has K brakes and arch bar trucks both of which
were outlawed in interchange service by 1949.
John Mitchell
--- On Sat, 3/5/11, Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>
Subject: [CBQ] Box car 4120
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 9:14 PM
Jan
Thanks for posting all these photos. I'm working my way through them but I
have a query about file 82 - box car #4120 at Chicago in
1949, with a Havelock reweigh date of June 1945.
My first impression of the photo was that the road number was wrong, and then
that the painting of the road name, number and
capacities was wrong, especially when compared to appearance of the
Burlington herald. It looks as if they have been added later.
The only CB&Q box car series that this number could fit was 3-4169 built
before 1885 (when the equipment registers started), and
they were a maximum outside length of 33' 5½" and a maximum capacity of
40,000 lb. The last one of this group - #1590 - left the
roster in 1914-5.
There were a number of double sheath box car classes still around in 1949
from XM-9 onwards, but the only class I can find that had
4120 as part of the number was XM-14 with #104120.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Kohl" <j.kohl@wildblue.net>
To: <BNlist@yahoogroups.com>; <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>;
<StLouisRailfans@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 4:49 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Major updates at Castle Graphics
> I know I've not done a large update in a long time, I've been going through
over
> 300 scans that needed cleaned and so on...well, finally got a bit over
halfway
> through them and decided it was high time to post! :)
>
>>
> At any rate, to see the latest updates just click here...
>
> http://transport.castlegraphics.com/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0
>
>
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