Fellow 0 Scalers,
I'm posting this in hope someone here can direct me to prototype information regarding this car. I'm really looking for a build date which I don't see on the model. It is a 50' car. Thanks.
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Nice car!
are you going to paint the wheels?
Andre.
Christopher,
The prototype was built by Sieco or Magor. GM&O had some of them also. They may have been built around the same time frame. I will check some photos when I get home and get back to you, I have the GM&O build dates.
Malcolm
Malcolm,
I'd appreciate that.
Andre and Chris,
It is an interesting car. I'm not sure if it fits my timeframe. I'll paint the wheels and give it a load eventually if it does fit in.
A good source for info...
The Boston and Maine had similar 50' bulkhead flats for pulpwood, built in 1954-55 from kits supplied by International Steel Car Co. at the Concord, NH shops. One difference: theirs had V floors. So i would say mid 1950s for such a friction bearing trucked car.
The pulp wood flats I saw in FL and GA had the V floor and were open at the middle so rain would flow out and the bark could occasionally be flushed off.
ChipR
The pulpwood flat car kit instructions on the Tichy Train Group website has a Prototype History section.
Look here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/.../item/612612225/view
There's a photo (# 10521) of one of the "Bulkhead Flatcars" below the enlarged photo.
Matt also posted a photo of one of the CofG Historical Society's magazines, here's their website:
Seems like one of the back issues of the ACL-SAL Historical Society's mag "Lines South" has an article on CofG Bulkhead Flats, but it'll take me a while to track it down.
From what I saw on Google Images, the CofG car was class FR-3 (Southwind Models made a HO brass car), but I can't confirm any of that data.
Thanks for the leads and links, guys. I sent a note to the C of G Society. I'll look into the others tomorrow. The Southwind models FR-3 looks to be the same, thanks Bob. I'll post any resolution if I find anything out. In the meantime, keep the suggestions coming. Thanks again.
Guys,
I got a response from the Central of Georgia Society. Here it is.
"That model looks like the old Southwind Models brass pulpwood car. It's based on a series of cars that were modified and renumbered from earlier CofGa pulpwood cars built ca. 1944. The modifications included new bulkheads."
"The modifications were done by Southern Railway ca. 1967. The Southern purchased the CofGa in 1963."
"So, the model would be usable for 1967 or later."
Thanks for all of the responses.
Dave, He sent along a photo of the car.
Seems that might be just a little later for your era.
Guess I should cancel that delivery of pulpwood to your address now....
Pulp wood is a nasty, dangerous and low-paying load.
Back in the '60s or so a young salesman went back to his office at the Georgia Railroad, very proud of the sale he had just made: locating a pulp wood shipper on the GARR. His boss took him aside and informed him that if he EVER did that again he would be fired.
ChipR
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