Rolling Stock Monday

@Don McErlean posted:

In the late teens and early 1920's before the Forcheimier brothers emigrated to the United States and started "Dorfan", they produced tinplate trains in Germany for the Kraus Company under the name "Fandor".  In both instances the name came from their mother and her sister, Fanny and Dora.  When they went to the US and started their US company they simply inverted the order of the names and Fandor became Dorfan.  Dorfan was unfortunately a victim of the Great Depression and their locomotives especially suffered greatly from zinc pest, so examples are somewhat tough to find today.

Shown below are two Fandor pieces of rolling stock, a Shell Tanker and a somewhat unusual car which does not seem to me to have a common name.  Its a gondola but it has high stake sides where the stakes are kept from expanding too far outward by being connected by chains ( yes one chain is missing).  So I guess I will call it a gondola/stake car.

OBTW Bob I loved the KMT space train, especially the floating ball over the top.  Neat!

Best Wishes everyone, hope your week goes well

Don

Don - I love the history lessons you teach us .. in this thread and others on which you post!  The Dofan history is most interesting.  Thanks for sharing your expert knowledge.  

Thanks for turning the brake wheel counter clockwise to get us rolling today Bob!   Really nice space train set you have there!  

My show and tell for today:

1.) Weaver 50 ton two bay hopper which I weathered.  

2. ) A MTH RailKing gondola with junk load which I also weathered.

Tank cars in the staging yard today on RSM.  Ontario & 2 Procor.

In keeping with the motor vehicle transport, here is a RailKing special run for the Community Model Railroad Club, Frostburg Maryland.  It must have been in 2017, since that is the car number.  The car is named 'Cumberland’.  I should have gotten the similar black flatcar named ‘Frostburg’ that they offered at the same time.

Rio Grande 3 bay coal hopper made by Weaver.

@trumpettrain - Patrick thank you for your generous compliment.  I really appreciate it especially coming from an accomplished modeler like yourself.

Don

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks for turning the brake wheel counter clockwise to get us rolling today Bob!   Really nice space train set you have there!  

My show and tell for today:

1.) Weaver 50 ton two bay hopper which I weathered.  

2. ) A MTH RailKing gondola with junk load which I also weathered.

Patrick,

That is some outstanding weathering.

Lou N

@Lou N posted:

Patrick,

That is some outstanding weathering.

Lou N

Lou - I really appreciate your kind words.  Thank you!