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Post by tom on Aug 31, 2024 4:26:40 GMT -8
I completed my Penn Central Plate C F41 flatcar a while ago but just recently added an appropriate load for it.  The printed load is from Steel Mill Foundry Supply and is a foundry flask used in the making of large steel castings.  As mentioned the flatcar is a printed model 3D Central/Plate C F41 flatcar that was assembled, painted Scalecoat PC green and then lettered with Mount Vernon decals. The trucks are by Tahoe Model Works. The casks were painted a steel color and are held in place with cribbing bolted to the floor of the car.  The printed models really add a nice realistic variety to my freight car roster. Here is an overhead shot of the loaded car.  |
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Post by kentuckysouthernrwy on Aug 31, 2024 4:32:28 GMT -8
Nice looking car. Well done.
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Post by wagnersteve on Aug 31, 2024 5:57:48 GMT -8
8/31/2024, close to 10 a.m., EDT
Very nice indeed. I see that the model is lettered as BLT 3-56. Was it originally a PRR car or a NYC one? I'm one of the older people with much fonder memories of those railroads than of the PC.
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Post by tom on Aug 31, 2024 8:11:33 GMT -8
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Post by hudsonyard on Aug 31, 2024 9:02:38 GMT -8
foundry casks for steelton? or johnstown?
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Post by tom on Aug 31, 2024 13:02:25 GMT -8
foundry casks for steelton? or johnstown? Do not really know but I believe that these would have been used in large foundries or large manufacturers that make large sand castings and the casks were used to make the molds. Interestingly when I earned my Mechanical Engineering Technologist degree (at PSU-Altoona) we toured the then very active Johnstown wire mill and at the main PSU campus we made our own sand castings. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Aug 31, 2024 13:20:31 GMT -8
In the summer of 1967 I went by the PRR from somewhere on the Main Line west of Philadelphia first to Pittsburgh, then to Richmond, Indiana. The train to Pittsburgh was considerably delayed because there had been a wreck west of Harrisburg. We were rerouted north all the way to Williamsport, then down what I believe was called the Bald Eagle branch that rejoined the PRR main at Tyrone, east of Hollidaysburg and Altoona. I spent at least one night in Pittsburgh at the house of a friend whose father worked for Blaw Knox. His father took us for a tour of their plant south of Pittsburgh. We had to don put on hard hats and special safety coverings on our shoes. We watched sand castings being made. If I remember correctly, Blaw Knox made, among other things Apex running boards for house cars. I'll try to pin down the location of the plant and add that to the post.
restarting 8/31/2024, about 5:35 p.m., EDT
So far I have had no luck confirming on line that the plant I visited in 1967 was Blaw-Knox or that that firm made Apex rooftop runinng boards for freight cars. Those may have been made by Youngstown Steel Door. I'll try seeing if I can reconnect with my friend, who was a year ahead of me at the undergraduate college we attended in Ohio. This may take quite some time.
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