Weekend Update 11/27/16

[Missaberoad]

Whoa. The kit came with the wrong trucks? Eh, I can live with them. Maybe they were chosen because of the low ride height?

BLMA ASF ride control truck would be a very close if not exact match and maintain the ride height.

Very nice car either way

[narrowminded]

PERFECT Chris!   ESPECIALLY the pipe! 

[chicken45]

BLMA ASF ride control truck would be a very close if not exact match and maintain the ride height.

Very nice car either way

Thanks! I know Bryan knows his stuff, so I'm sure he chose it for a reason. I'd choose ride height over friction bearings any day.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Whoa. The kit came with the wrong trucks? Eh, I can live with them. Maybe they were chosen because of the low ride height?

Yep, looks like it then.

Maybe some of the cars had roller bearings, but it was actually the (rather surprising) presence of the plain bearings on the car in Lewistown that doomed it while the other one found a home with the CRHS. That's why I noticed.

[chicken45]

Yep, looks like it then.

Maybe some of the cars had roller bearings, but it was actually the (rather surprising) presence of the plain bearings on the car in Lewistown that doomed it while the other one found a home with the CRHS. That's why I noticed.

What about that B60b that made it in to the 90's on its original trucks?

[Chris333]

Would those gons with plain bearings be in MOW service?

[Cajonpassfan]

Final answer! 

You know I had to add a pipe right. 

Looks great, and I got my pipe
The gables though, especially the one facing the viewer, need a fascia board or some other edge finish IMHO.
(My favorite peeve with many model buildings...there are rafters or other structural members under the very thin roofing material).
Otto K.

[basementcalling]

Final answer! 



The bar along the bottom of the grate will disappear in the water layers.

You know I had to add a pipe right. 

Smoke em if ya gots em!

[bbussey]

Thanks! I know Bryan knows his stuff, so I'm sure he chose it for a reason. I'd choose ride height over friction bearings any day.

Interesting. The trucks are BLMA, so the BLMA A-3 friction-bearing trucks can be swapped in for the cars that didn't get roller-bearing trucks.

[nkalanaga]

Chris333:  That would be my guess.  As late as the 80s there were still cars with archbar trucks in MOW service in a few places.

Also, a car can have roller bearing adapters in "friction bearing" trucks, although, as far as I know, those are also banned in interchange service by now.  They also usually have the journal box lids removed, while that car still has them.  Roller bearings also don't usually leave that much oil on the wheels.

And, on a third look, I noticed the page heading:
Home » CR Historical Images » MOW Equipment Photos (1976 - 1999) » MOW Gondolas » Class G32C

So, it apparently IS in MOW service, and almost anything is allowed there.

[garethashenden]

Weren't friction bearings still allowed until the mid '90s? Either 94 or 95 if I remember correctly.

[delamaize]

Weren't friction bearings still allowed until the mid '90s? Either 94 or 95 if I remember correctly.

In Captive service, and MOW I think. I think for interchange they had been outlawed for quite a while.

[trainforfun]

Yeah, I didn't make a big deal of it on TRW but a few months ago I was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia after having sudden onset of stabbing, electric shocks all over the left side of my face, through the jaw, the cheekbone, and behind the eye.  MRIs showed a compression of the 5th cranial nerve by a vein near my brain stem.  The surgery I had on Tuesday was called a microvascular decompression.

Wow it makes a hard wiring decoder installation a joke !!!!
Speedy recovery Dave .

Note : you should have asked the surgeon if he could help some of us with his steady and acurate hands for tiny delicate project ! 

[garethashenden]

In Captive service, and MOW I think. I think for interchange they had been outlawed for quite a while.

I looked it up. Not a primary resource, but according to the Model Railroader's Guide to Freight Cars, roller bearings were required on all new cars from 1968, all rebuilt cars from 1970, and all cars from 1995.

[Missaberoad]

In Captive service, and MOW I think. I think for interchange they had been outlawed for quite a while.

You would think so but they were banned from interchange service 1/1/91 for haz mat 1/1/94 for general freight and Finally converted trucks (roller bearing in a friction bearing sideframe) were banned 1/1/95...

Depending on the road they are still legal (with restrictions) for Captive service...