More 40-ft Corrugated Trailers and 52' 6" Gondolas from Trainworx

[cfritschle]

Pat Sanders sent an email announcing more 40-ft corrugated trailers that are open for pre-order, along with 52' 6" gondolas that are available now.  Here is the N scale portion of the announcement:

NEW N scale corrugated piggyback trailers
Northern Pacific, Kansas City Southern, Fruit Growers Express,
Ferrocarril del Pacifico, Sonora-Baja California, Un-lettered
Pre orders due February 28
View the colored flyer at the following link.
http://www.train-worx.com/21-1-n-corrugated-trailers.pdf
Excel order and description sheet available upon request.

NEW N scale 52' 6" gondolas
Available now! While supplies last.
Louisville and Nashville, two schemes
Ontario Northland
Seaboard
View colored flyer at the following link
http://www.train-worx.com/21-1gon52.pdf

Edit:  More info from the email.

Shipping this month

N scale 52' gondolas, D&RGW, MP, UP, RI, L&N, ONT, SBD
 
N scale quad hoppers, DRGW, MP, ICG, ARR, CSX

Also available and back in stock:
     -Coal loads are back in stock. 
          Part #4002, 3 pack, $4.95
     -NEW die cast weight inserts that disguise inside of empty cars in black and mineral red.
          Part #4006, $1.95 each (not packaged for retail sale)
     -Assembled under frames with Trainworx 100T trucks, Fox Valley metal wheels and the
          new M89 magnetic couplers.  Available in black and mineral red.
          Part #4003-M89, $5.95 each  (not packaged for retail sale)
     -If you prefer the larger couplers, I still have a stock of the assembled under frames with
          trucks, Fox Valley metal wheels and the larger couplers in black and mineral red.
          Part #4003, $5.95 each (not packaged for retail sale)

[jcox3751]

Has Pat posted info on "new M89 magnetic couplers" mentioned in the announcement?

Thanks

[Mark5]

Stoked about the FGX trailers! 

Also very curious about the "new M89 magnetic couplers."

More on the M89 couplers here: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=51264.0

Mark

[davefoxx]

Stoked about the FGX trailers! 

Me, too!  Anybody know the correct era for those trailers?  Are they forty-footers?

DFF

[James Costello]

Jim Eager made the following comments on the HO release (some overlap with the N Scale release) on the MFCL / Modelintermodal email lists:

Most of the new schemes are from the 1960s, which makes sense as this Trainworx van is an early-1960s-early-1970s prototype.

That said, the RGMW Timpte vans could be seen riding as intraline tofc loads on the Rio Grande in late 1960s and 1970s. Some of them even got a "70-“ prefix to their number indicating that they were insulated vans used in on-line tofc service.

The early 1960s Santa Fe scheme is accurate for the ATSF F40216 - F40255 series insulated vans, only some of which were eventually renumbered into the STFZ 700001-700040 series in the early 1970s.

The early 1960s C&O Dorsey vans are from the RCOZ (REAZ) 203301-203309 series. They made it into the early-mid 1970s.

The SP 40ft reefer is from the PMTZ 500041-500090 series (thought to be Browns). Before someone posts to say that the Truck Service slogan is toward the wrong end, take a look at the top photo on page 61 of Thompson’s SP Color Guide V1. And yes, these vans also had curb doors.

The aluminum NP and NPT [NP Transport] vans are accurate, I don’t have anything on the Mainstreet [Loewy] green van.

The KCS van is actually a 1969 Dorsey from series KCSZ 205006-205085, and they definitely were in service through the 1970s.

The FGE reefer is a Dorsey from the FT-711463 - FT-711612 series built 11-64=2-65. These were in service well into the 1970s, and they, too had curb doors.

Jim Eager

[GonzoCRFan]

Are the MP and RI gons the same as the ones that were previously released?

[Mark5]

Me, too!  Anybody know the correct era for those trailers?  Are they forty-footers?

DFF

Yes 40 footers!

and complements of Jim Eager via James Costello:

The FGE reefer is a Dorsey from the FT-711463 - FT-711612 series built 11-64=2-65. These were in service well into the 1970s, and they, too had curb doors.
Jim Eager

There is a photo of a very similar FT-713399 on Feb 21, 1970 (also Dorsey, ca 1967) in the Piggy Back Color Guide, Vol 1 on page 110 (James Kincaid).

Mark

[bbussey]

I checked with Pat earlier today also on the time period for the FGE trailers.  Unfortunately outside of both of my eras, but I still might get one.

[Mark5]

The orange L&N gon (blt 1967) is a bit foobish, but close enough that I just might pick one up.

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ln176266&o=ln

Mark

[cv_acr]

The orange L&N gon (blt 1967) is a bit foobish, but close enough that I just might pick one up.

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ln176266&o=ln

Mark

All of the gon schemes are foobs. (In this particular release/flyer.)

[samusi01]

The aluminum NP and NPT [NP Transport] vans are accurate, I don’t have anything on the Mainstreet [Loewy] green van.

The NP used the Loewy scheme on earlier, shorter trailers: see https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_lemke/30915935895/ from the early 1960s. I do not know of any later trailers that were painted in this scheme.

[Mark5]

Tempted to get at least one of the "NP"

http://www.nprha.org/Publications/Marketing/NP_Piggy_Back_Pamphlet_M.pdf

[samusi01]

An update - the 40' Loewy scheme was on featured on at least flat bed, dry van, and reefer trailers in the late 1950s through, presumably, the early to mid 1960s. An image over on the NPRHA group led me to do further searching and the original is here:

http://morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/rvn_caption_jpeg_rec.php?objno=RVN23638

[nkalanaga]

I don't remember seeing them in Pasco in the 1970s, but that doesn't mean they weren't still in service.

The silver NP/NPT trailers lasted well into the BN era, until the 40 ft trailer became obsolete.  Even then they could be seen as storage shed.

[Mark5]

An update - the 40' Loewy scheme was on featured on at least flat bed, dry van, and reefer trailers in the late 1950s through, presumably, the early to mid 1960s. An image over on the NPRHA group led me to do further searching and the original is here:

http://morphotoarchive.org/rvndb/rvn_caption_jpeg_rec.php?objno=RVN23638

Nice detective work!