Pennsy G39a Ore Jennys

[3rdrail]

Part of the problem with the ore jennies is that they seldom went offline and indeed were never seen on large areas of the PRR, PC, and CR. Where they ran, they were present in large numbers. If you drew a line from Cleveland to Mingo Junction, I'll bet you'll find few if any photos of a G39 on PRR, PC, or CR lines west of those points.

Those who model steel mills in Pennsylvania need scads of them if they model after 1960, but no one else needs any. I don't think there are 125 modelers needing 40 each, nor 250 needing 20. What do y'all think?

[David Leonard]

I don't think there could be much of a market for these. My only thought was to buy a couple to put on a shop track or something. I do recall seeing these running from Philadelphia west toward Pittsburgh with imported ore, empty eastbound. Thie was the case in CR days, but I don't know about Pennsy or PC practice.

[Bob Bufkin]

While we are on the subject of ore jennies.  Atlas seems to do well selling theirs.  Since I model before the G39's, I would likely haul ore in hoppers.  There's plenty of coal loads that fit different hoppers but are there any ore loads to fit different cars?

[GonzoCRFan]

Sean, it has been forty years since the PRR became part of the PC. I attended the PRRT&HS convention in Greensburg, PA, last year and I would say that at least half of the membership was not born when the PRR merged into the PC. So, don't give me that "worm food" crap. PRR was such a dominant force in prototype railroading around the world for at least a half century (1880-1930) that it still fascinates modelers. After all, how old is Major Vollmer?

Half of the membership, or half the attendees at that one particular convention? What I'm trying to say is that the general trend you are going to see is younger people modeling "young" railroads, and vice versa. The VAST majority of CRHS members are under 50. Some buddies of mine went to last year's PC T&HS convention and came back saying their membership demographic is pretty much the exact opposite of ours.

Yes, it was a dominant force, and created some very impressive engineering landmarks. But the irritating little fat kid I encountered at Horseshoe Curve last summer couldn't care less about anything before NS Douche-9s. Even Major Vollmer is starting to lean towards the CR era...  ;D

[haybros]

While we are on the subject of ore jennies.  Atlas seems to do well selling theirs.  Since I model before the G39's, I would likely haul ore in hoppers.  There's plenty of coal loads that fit different hoppers but are there any ore loads to fit different cars?

See the www.nscaleloads.com website

Best Regards, Bill Hay

[CONRAIL FAN]

I agree im an active member of the CHRS im 24, I grew up in the allentown area and watched conrails operations since the late 80s till the merger. CP BURN was the place to be on Saturday mornings to watch the good action! I saw alot of ore trains going in out of the area, i miss those cars. I can also recall going threw bethlem steel plant seeing the ore yard full of these cars with that huge bridge like look crane in the background. A wonderful sight. The ore pellets used to be between the ties. I really hope that ore jenies gets manufactured in Nscale, I would order about 20-30cars or maybe more depend on space. Does anyone know if that club that used to hang out at CP BURN back in days is still around?
 Jerome

[ljudice]

I would go for 12-20 cars - but would greatly prefer assembled/finished cars!

I must say though, that if I had to invest my $$$ in a specific car for PRR/PC/CR it would probably be the X58 class boxcar - since it had more schemes and certainly went offline.

Not to divert the discussion, but just pointing out that this could be a road specific car.

BTW, note in the Penn Central discussion the photos of the old Aurora G36 gondola - of course this is a PRR specific car from a zillion years ago - probably produced in a dozen or so roadnames and happilly riding behind those Big Boys on people's New Haven pikes!  If you can sell foobie roadnames to increase the sales of real cars, is anyone really hurt?

Lou