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[asarge]

Roger, I don;t ever remember seeing a picture of them being loaded or unloaded directly onto the ground. Usually they were loaded or unloaded onto a concrete ramp or loading dock. The L&N freight house/team track in Newport Kentucky hada  ramp for unloading  autoboxcars or flat cars that was there until the mid-70's. What the picture in the ad looks like is a ramp for storing and unloading the vehicles from the car onto the unloading dock.

[TrainCat2]

cold cows. 

Hey . . . Don't the Telemarketers that call you during dinner make them  ???

[bbussey]

Of course, I just lowered and body-mounted an original NYC car a month ago.  Don't care about the perceived "collectability" aspect, only that the graphics are more crisp on the new version.  But nonetheless I'm glad they've finally reissued the scheme the model is based on.

[sirenwerks]

That's a 2 deck stock car design , I added a second deck to the ones I have . Still like the chute though . No idea what a 2 deck chute would look like .

Well, you got me curious too... It seems the prevailing design entailed two ramps, one to each level, built next to each other, with each half the width of a standard stock car door. You can kinda see the design on the left side of this pic, but that's the best image I could find:

[ednadolski]

why did they put a new model car into an oldie

Manufacturing error, the car was supposed to be this:

[up1950s]

sirenwerks  , thanks for that shot .

[up1950s]

and this one like seirenwerks showed
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wetekamp.de/bilder/alry/stock1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wetekamp.de/summit_e.htm&usg=__dRu8llukLX21mmi4yLX-wZLYH3M=&h=176&w=288&sz=10&hl=en&start=241&sig2=xvO2g83h2l-Wgqg5Zn_EYw&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=sCwOIY16gbyzyM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drailroad%2Bstock%2Bcar%2Bramp%26start%3D240%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dig%26gbv%3D2%26sout%3D1%26prmdo%3D1%26ndsp%3D20%26biw%3D1249%26bih%3D771%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=d4x9TOmJKoGBlAeRqeTsCw

[wcfn100]

"This 50’ standard box car with double doors and no roofwalk is painted with reefer yellow sides, aluminum roof and freight car red ends."

Aluminum roof?   ??? and  ??? ???

Jason

[Dave Vollmer]

Not to argue with Ed, since he and I usually agree on all things choo-choo, but Lancaster, PA had a HUGE stockyard, some of which was still a going concern when I was little.  It was close to the passenger station on the PRR "bypass" on the north side of Lancaster proper.

http://forgottenpa.blogspot.com/2008/04/lancaster-stockyards.html

Long strings of those converted round-roof boxcar-turned-stockcar homebuilts could be seen under Pennsy wires behind P5as, GG1s, and E44s.

[Puddington]

Glad to see someone is using the "2010 guide to Effective Airport Passenger Handling Procedures" manual..... ;D

[wcfn100]

Blue Train?


Jason

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Not to argue with Ed, since he and I usually agree on all things choo-choo, but Lancaster, PA had a HUGE stockyard, some of which was still a going concern when I was little.  It was close to the passenger station on the PRR "bypass" on the north side of Lancaster proper.

http://forgottenpa.blogspot.com/2008/04/lancaster-stockyards.html

Long strings of those converted round-roof boxcar-turned-stockcar homebuilts could be seen under Pennsy wires behind P5as, GG1s, and E44s.

I'm not saying that stock cars didn't travel in the east, only that the iconic image of a stock car getting loaded at a small pen seems to belong to the west.

[up1950s]

Blue Train?


Jason

I think one was called a blue and the other a red .

Here is better info http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?page=Circus

Looks like the background of the round logo was blue and not the background of the big lettering , at least in these shots . I am sure MTL wouldn't have made a blunder so huge . Maybe in another era the big lettering background was blue .

[Nato]

  If I recall correctly the MT (Kadee) stock car is a model of an NYC car. After Ringling Bros. and  Barnum & Bailey combined (merged) there was only one train and one show that traveled around the country. In the late 1940's post war era they bought alot of surolus WW II streamlined hospital cars and put together two trains and shows the Red Unit and the Blue Unit. Later these trains were replaced with upgraded cars continuing up to the present trains. It does seem a bit odd that MT now chooses to do blue cars,when the red train is far from complete, these new releases should be red in my opinion,                                                                                                                                  Nate Goodman (Nato).

[wcfn100]

Blue Train?


Jason

I think one was called a blue and the other a red .

Here is better info http://chicago.railfan.net/cgi/photos.pl/?page=Circus

Looks like the background of the round logo was blue and not the background of the big lettering , at least in these shots . I am sure MTL wouldn't have made a blunder so huge . Maybe in another era the big lettering background was blue .

Yeah there's the blue, red and gold? (no train). It's just the first I've seen or heard of the MT offering for it.


Jason