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The Milwaukee had a group of them early on for Allis Chalmers service. They were big cars for the 20s-30s ! I'll need to look at my resources and see if they are a close match for the Milwaukee group, I suspect they are close enough for me .Randy
Milwaukee cars were probably welded. But, it will be much easier to remove the rivets on these plastic bodies than the Athearn metal bodies!
Mike, At least some Milw 65' gondolas were riveted (92075-99):http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/other_cars/milw_cars/milw_number/092075-092099.htm
Those are the 1981 built Pullman Standard cars, A little new for me.
Oh man. You know what I just thought of?All the sexy weathered gons MTL is gonna be able to do with these.
Well....I will admit that I am not an expert.And I don't mean to be argumentative, but one of your earlier post reinforced the recollection in my head that MILW had large gondolas very early on.In response to my question "who had these (ie- 65' gondolas) in the 1920s?", you responded that MILW built some, and these were unusually large for the 20s and 30s. That response, in any case, clearly indicated that MILW had some 65' gondolas that pre-dated the 1943 welded cars. Welding was unusual in car construction prior to WWII. And, I thought the 92075-99 were rebuilt (with the height extension) from earlier cars. Granted, unlikely those would be cars from 1930 or earlier- simply because they would be close to the end of their useful lives. But the car in the photo was clearly not built in 1981. The shop date on the car in the photo looks like 8-79 to me. And the build date is likely 10 or more years before the shop date.
I cannot find this car series. The 1981 cars were PCF cars, not Pullman and they looked very different from the pictured car. Bad things happen when I don’t wear my glasses… I know I’ve seen big Milwaukee gons from the 30s. I know about the ones from 1943 which I assume is the closest to the MT car. I need to find my mechanical dept. class book.