SOO BOXCARS NEEDED
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Gandalf0444
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Hmm the new ghetto style boxcar?:hehe: Why do they have cardboard rather then doors? Fell off?
No...These were special made for the WC to hold woodchips...They are only loaded at a plant up in Ashland Wisconsin
Gandalf0444
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They used a blower
cascaderailroad
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Quite alot of powderized or granular products are shipped in boxcars...mainly to keep the product dry. I have seen boxcars of raw cocoa going by, leaking the powder onto the roadbed...bet your hot chocolate tastes different now...watch out for wood floor splinters.
Sometimes the shipping containers are thick corregated shipping boxes like watermellons come in. And if the load shifts, the doors are easier to open, as the cardboard and wood prevents jamming.
These particular cars have the doors, as well as the lower door track permanently removed...another use for a boxcar that would have headed for the cutters torch. Only lightweight products are shipped this way, and these may only be for that particular roads trackage. Sometimes these are illegal for off home road systems, and are not for long distance interchange service.
FRA regulations would not alow doors to simply hang from upper door tracks...that would be totally illegal for ICC interchange, or even for delivery down the street to another closeby factory.
For wood chips I would presume a forklift rams and punctures the wood and cardboard, and the load is spilled out of the doorways into a trough. Sometimes boxcar doors become totally inopperable, either permanently stuck open, or permanently stuck shut, and a forklift would be the only way to open tough to open doors. So the troublesome doors have been permanently removed.
Quite alot of powderized or granular products are shipped in boxcars...mainly to keep the product dry. I have seen boxcars of raw cocoa going by, leaking the powder onto the roadbed...bet your hot chocolate tastes different now...watch out for wood floor splinters.
Sometimes the shipping containers are thick corregated shipping boxes like watermellons come in. And if the load shifts, the doors are easier to open, as the cardboard and wood prevents jamming.These particular cars have the doors, as well as the lower door track permanently removed...another use for a boxcar that would have headed for the cutters torch. Only lightweight products are shipped this way, and these may only be for that particular roads trackage. Sometimes these are illegal for off home road systems, and are not for long distance interchange service.
FRA regulations would not alow doors to simply hang from upper door tracks...that would be totally illegal for ICC interchange, or even for delivery down the street to another closeby factory.
For wood chips I would presume a forklift rams and punctures the wood and cardboard, and the load is spilled out of the doorways into a trough. Sometimes boxcar doors become totally inopperable, either permanently stuck open, or permanently stuck shut, and a forklift would be the only way to open tough to open doors. So the troublesome doors have been permanently removed.
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Ha....I knew we had someone from Ashland....Glad to see someone from up in that area.....I myself never been up to Ashland yet...But one day I wanna venture up there to check it out......
Google Earthed Ashland, WI. Looks like an interesting place. I would not mind exploring the track that leads up to the old oredock. Some interesting pictures on google earth of that thing. When did they stop using it? It looks like the trestle leading up to it is badly damaged so I assume it has been out of operation for some time now.
First pictures I have seen of a real oredock before.
First pictures I have seen of a real oredock before.
Perhaps, but as I know Wisconsin, this is probably the best the car shop could manage!
And above is the best I could manage, on such short notice. I know, it's Paintshed, it sucks, I'll just go ahead and delete it....
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Euphod....
did not take you long to come up with something...and it is better than I could do, but then I don't know how to do it, but would be fun learning how, but think I am too old to try....also in regard to Googling Ashland, WI...it was an interesting place, especially from a railroad aspect....now I am getting a lot older, but a couple things I can remember are..........railroads: Soo Line, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Northwestern and one more name I can't remember, all hauled out of there...if I remember correctly it had 4-5 ore docks (the one that partially remains is made mostly out of concrete and they don't have the money to tear it down....at least 3 coal docks, and a pulp hoist that took logs from across Lake Superior in Minnesota and Canada in rafts, and loaded them into rail cars...I lived there when the change from steam to diesel occured, so I saw a lot of interesting stuff....snowplows, cranes...etc....gee.....the good old days
John
did not take you long to come up with something...and it is better than I could do, but then I don't know how to do it, but would be fun learning how, but think I am too old to try....also in regard to Googling Ashland, WI...it was an interesting place, especially from a railroad aspect....now I am getting a lot older, but a couple things I can remember are..........railroads: Soo Line, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Northwestern and one more name I can't remember, all hauled out of there...if I remember correctly it had 4-5 ore docks (the one that partially remains is made mostly out of concrete and they don't have the money to tear it down....at least 3 coal docks, and a pulp hoist that took logs from across Lake Superior in Minnesota and Canada in rafts, and loaded them into rail cars...I lived there when the change from steam to diesel occured, so I saw a lot of interesting stuff....snowplows, cranes...etc....gee.....the good old days
John
John, firstly you may call me Ed. Secondly, I envy you for having witnessed the greatest period of time in the history of the USA. I would have loved to have seen the lake freighters, and the steam engines and early diesels in action.
Secondly, I am not a young man, and my vision is failing due to disease. My son helps me make some items, but some I can still knock out myself. My contributions to Trainz were in the early days, but those days have passed and I don't pretend to be able to keep up!
If you want help to reskin rolling stock and locos, I'd be glad to help.
Ed
Secondly, I am not a young man, and my vision is failing due to disease. My son helps me make some items, but some I can still knock out myself. My contributions to Trainz were in the early days, but those days have passed and I don't pretend to be able to keep up!
If you want help to reskin rolling stock and locos, I'd be glad to help.
Ed
Hang on and let me get a new pair of shorts here....................WOW!!!!! That is like AWESOME!!!!!!!! I am for sure interested in it.....I will see if I can get you a straight on side shot of that kind of a car......If you can send that...That would be GREATLY APPRECIATED........And if you COULD do more numbers that would be great to.......Thank you so much
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Okay, well, I'm glad I can still contribute something to the game. I'll make a few, send them your way, then if you get any better shots, I'll make some more. Gotta change out the coupler though, and then script it for woodchips.
I still laugh at the idea of the guys in the carshops picking up their "building material" behind the local grocery store though!
"Oh ya hey dare' Clem, look at 'dis big sheet here!"
"Oh she's a beaut, ay?"
I still laugh at the idea of the guys in the carshops picking up their "building material" behind the local grocery store though!
"Oh ya hey dare' Clem, look at 'dis big sheet here!"
"Oh she's a beaut, ay?"
The bad thing is....Finding pix of these buggers are tricky
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Some other nice cars ta try
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http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/c598867.html
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p52829968.html
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/p16961138.html
http://wc2scale.fotopic.net/c598861.html
Some other nice cars ta try
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