I had a local fellow custom build three of these for me is gondola kids were created in the early 1980s and number about 30 I will be using a 70 ton barber truck under each model. Rich yoder graciously supplied decals for the containers I had a local fellow custom build three of these for me is gondola kids were created in the early 1980s and number about 30 I will be using a 70 ton barber truck under each model
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The Bob Parri (built in the USA) container cars are beautiful and quite hard to find. Rich Yoder offered a imported brass model years after Bob built his. I believe NYC, D&H, and LV rain similar cars. Please correct me if I have that wrong.
Ed Rappe
Ed,
lv lv had the same car. D&h had a variant with one less container and a slightly shorter car. The max gray/ush 48' could be have the sides cut out to model their version.
2rail guy: I am not an a skilled phot uploader
the DL&W also used gondolas with LCL cement bottles.
Prr can you email me any info on these cars?
http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.co...portland-cement.html
Leo's a blog post I assisted in creating.
thanks
There's a photo of one of these being unloaded into a cement truck about one third of the way down the page of the following link.....DaveB
They look like really nice cars. I had given thought to getting one of the Yoder cars but I got stuck wondering whether, and how far off the home roads these cars would travel? If knew they travelled all over I might keep an eye out for one.
a client came to me many years ago with 3 of the Parri kits and wanted built and painted. wanted to rough guestament price. that was easy, I would build them all and keep one. He was happy as a kitten with yarn. I was too. I finally got one of those holy grail cars. was very lucky at the time to have a built model in for painting, so the build was easy. now, I have 3 of these cars, a kit built, an original and a Yoder car(undec). I made the original artwork for the Yoder cars. the original was painted and weathered, will have to dig it out for pix. these cars show up from time to time on the auction site. my undec Yoder is available but it ain't cheap.
"wondering whether, and how far off the home roads these cars would travel? If knew they travelled all over I might keep an eye out for one."
The car at the DL&W Brooklyn facility is a LV car so at least get off of home rails. Cement is a heavy commodity and is made at many parts of the country so I doubt a LV or NYC car would haul all the way to California but they might venture across a couple of the smaller nearby states?.....DaveB
Dave B,
If you go to the blog post link, there is an informative graph on cement traffic. Most was localized car traffic, so I highly doubt these gons went too far out of the NE corridor.
Brad,
the DLW color guides by morning sun show several photos of the converted gondolas. they were mostly loaded on the Portland-Bangor, PA branch in Bath, Nazareth and a couple other locales. I have a prototype diagram somewhere.
up until the advent of bulk carrier trucks, a lot of the bottles were brought to the NJ waterfront for transport over to NYC for construction projects.
here are a couple pix, I believe taken from the morning sun books:
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