April Bluford Announcements

[wazzou]

Rio Grande...yeah, OK...but based on the description, it wasn't a horrible guess.

How about EJ&E? or N de M or Clinchfield?

[Bob Bufkin]

New Haven and RF&P.

[Bluford Craig]

New Haven and RF&P.

Okay, at 9,000 (plus or minus) miles, Seaboard Coast Line was the largest railroad to not roster any 86' boxcars. The Family Lines cars belonged to L&N and carried L&N reporting marks.

Craig

[wazzou]

New Haven and RF&P.

Okay, at 9,000 (plus or minus) miles, Seaboard Coast Line was the largest railroad to not roster any 86' boxcars. The Family Lines cars belonged to L&N and carried L&N reporting marks.

Craig

What about SCL cars 99000-99003 and 99004-99006?  These cars were A400 type and 86'6" long.  I don't personally have photos, but I think they existed with SCL reporting marks.

[Bluford Craig]

New Haven and RF&P.

Okay, at 9,000 (plus or minus) miles, Seaboard Coast Line was the largest railroad to not roster any 86' boxcars. The Family Lines cars belonged to L&N and carried L&N reporting marks.

Craig

What about SCL cars 99000-99003 and 99004-99006?  These cars were A400 type and 86'6" long.  I don't personally have photos, but I think they existed with SCL reporting marks.

Well, I'll be damned. You're right. I've never come across that batch either. 7 cars - I'll have to do  some more digging on that one. So that would make Great Northern at 8,300 miles the largest road to not own 86 footers!  Someone mentioned KCS but they had a small fleet of quad door cars.

Craig

[Mark5]

This is one of the things that makes RW cool.

[Philip H]

KCs had quad door 86 footers?  Really?  Any photos?  I am about to stip an old one I got off Lee and do it as ICG, but if you are doing that one, I may re think my plans . . .

[Bluford Craig]

KCs had quad door 86 footers?  Really?  Any photos?  I am about to stip an old one I got off Lee and do it as ICG, but if you are doing that one, I may re think my plans . . .

KCS 60100-60112 Quad Door PS cars assigned to Chevy. Never seen one, never seen a picture. If we ever track down a picture then we'd be happy to do them.

Craig

[Mark5]

Hmm, the KCS's must have been sold a long time ago?

60108:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=279920

60105:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=166825

[Bob Bufkin]

I sure can't find any photos on the net of the KCS cars.  When you start to run out of paint schemes, here's one from a couple months back:

[wazzou]

Is that car 60' or 86'?

[Bluford Craig]

Is that car 60' or 86'?

The NYC-Conrail car with the blue doors is definitely an 86 footer. We did one very similar to that but with a single blue door and one brown door. It's in the 86132 NYC-Conrail 2-pack. The blue doors were from Chessie cars. In the shops, its pretty normal for doors to be removed, serviced separately, and then reattached to a different car. Our 86131 in that set has a single silver door and one brown door. All part of the fun...

As for the KCS numbers, yep, it looks like they recycled the road numbers. Not too surprising, it was 4 decades ago.

Craig

[wazzou]

It was just difficult to tell due to the angle of the photo even when compared to the car behind.

[Dave V]

I have my layout over at a train show in West Omaha this weekend.  I scored the 8-door Meadeville CR box.  Pardon the crappy phone pic.

[wm3798]

I'm sorry, I just checked in on this thread.  If you'll excuse me, I need to change my drawers.

Lee