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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2014 15:53:25 GMT -8
When I lived in the south suburbs of Chicago, the old PRR/Penn Central double track panhandle route was just on the east side of my town. The track was not too good so train speed was not too fast. I was only kid, but I remember seeing a number of ex- green PC boxcars with the PC on the reporting mark painted out and a crude LOAM stenciled in place. I'd love to try to model on of these cars. Its so 70's.  |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Sept 2, 2014 15:56:37 GMT -8
LOAM = Louisiana Midland Ry. Co. added 7/1974; 1/1975-1/1980; eliminated 1/1987 The January 1976 ORER has a series 252935-252988 with 9 cars. The July 1980 ORER shows 3 cars in the series (well, not even a series, really): 252943, 252954, 252968. If a person were looking for other numbers, one might search 252xxx. The cars are referred to as X43c. Here's the PRR listing for X43's: prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=X43Yes, that's a great car! And the photo is also obviously rare-ish. Ed |
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Post by atsfan on Sept 2, 2014 16:42:59 GMT -8
The lower side sill looks tricky to model.
Near car.
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Post by edwardsutorik on Sept 2, 2014 17:06:59 GMT -8
I'm looking again at the January 1976 ORER, and there are a lot more LOAM 40 footers. There's 120 former Pennsy boxes: X43b, X43c, X43d, x43e. And there's 24 not-Pennsy 40 footers, including a Bicentennial: 1776: www.flickr.com/photos/91508565@N08/10100628624/And then there's the 50 footers. It appears you can find LOAM boxcars without using a number series, since that was about all they had. In 1976, anyway. Interesting bunch of rolling stock. Ed |
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Post by bnsf971 on Sept 3, 2014 3:06:17 GMT -8
Was this one of the "stolen" PC boxcars?
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Post by stevewagner on Sept 3, 2014 4:24:34 GMT -8
Terry, I think you're thinking of the boxcars that the LaSalle & Bureau County of Illinois slapped its own reporting marks on. Kadee made a model of one of these some years back, a boxcar red ex-New York Central car with minimal patching.
ExactRail made Louisiana Midland 50' boxcars in a very attractive livery: white with red and blue graphics.
Note that the new LOAM reporting marks on the ex-PC 40' boxcar in the photo are in the Penn Central's font -- maybe PC itself did the patch job!
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Post by GP40P-2 on Sept 3, 2014 8:03:39 GMT -8
We could really use a (good) model of that BN bulkhead flat to the right of the subject boxcar!!!
I do however like that box as well, interesting with the trucks inset slightly from the ends.
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Post by bnsf971 on Sept 4, 2014 3:00:48 GMT -8
Terry, I think you're thinking of the boxcars that the LaSalle & Bureau County of Illinois slapped its own reporting marks on. Kadee made a model of one of these some years back, a boxcar red ex-New York Central car with minimal patching. ExactRail made Louisiana Midland 50' boxcars in a very attractive livery: white with red and blue graphics. Note that the new LOAM reporting marks on the ex-PC 40' boxcar in the photo are in the Penn Central's font -- maybe PC itself did the patch job! LOAM ended up with the cars, after a long convoluted process. That's why I asked. |
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Post by Spikre on Sept 12, 2014 11:27:39 GMT -8
 the car pictured appears to have a rebuilt side sill. Atlas O Trainman has a good model of the X43 as built,earlier Atlas O imported the Roco version also. some series of X43s had 7' doors,later ones had 8' doors. the X43 seems to have been PRRs 1st AAR boxcars. Spikre 
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