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Thank you Ken that is helpful!
From: Kenneth Martin <kmartin537@surewest.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, 20 September 2013, 18:45 Subject: Re: [CBQ] XM21 to XM23 boxcars Benjamin,
Car 131406 is a class XM-22 #'s 131251 - 132250 Some dimensions of Q single sheathed boxcars with composite ends (from `1930 folio book) XM-20 XM-21 & XM-22 XM-23 Inside height - 8' 0 1/4" 8' 0" 8' 1" Height to bottom of side sill - 2' 8 7/16" 2' 7 " 2' 7" Height to top of running board - 12' 11 5/16" 12' 11 7/8" 12' 9" Capy. Cubic ft. - 2733 2720 2748 Wheat line - 4' 10 1/2" 4' 10 1/2" Corn line - 5' 10 1/4" 5' 10 1/4" Good luck with your modeling. Ken Martin On Sep 19, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Scanlon wrote: > Hi > > I just joined the group to do some research on boxcars. I model in TT scale. > > We have a 'copy' of an Accurail single sheathed boxcar with Z section trusses and composite ends, done by a Russian manufacturer and I'm trying to work out what I can use it for, as it's a nice piece of work. It's principally a Canadian vehicle, apparently. > > However, having read an article in Feb 1993 'Rail Model Journal' about the Accurail HO car which gave a bit of information on a few series that the Q owned, I thought I should do some digging. > > I am trying to work out the height of these cars as the information in the RMJ showed one car, 131409, as being very low slung but said that the 132000-132249 series were built as large capacity grain cars and matched the Canadian cars height, which I think was 9' or so. It's hard to work out what the RMJ article says about the low slung car as they muddled up the caption: > > http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/144/10395/february-1993-page-21 > > I do not know if all the single sheathed Q boxcars with composite/single sheathed ends were all 9' inner height? Maybe someone can confirm that? > > Regards > > Benjamin __._,_.___
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