PC: Re: flexi kitbash

["Patrick Harris" <seaboardempire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the profile of the slopes might be somewhat different too. When this
was reviewed (in 'Ding, maybe?), it was noted that it was not a candidate
for kitbash into the PD3000.

Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Gay" <waltrail -AT- erols.com>
To: <penn-central -AT- smellycat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: PC: Re: [Fwd: FW: [FC] Flexi-flo hoppers]


> I had started a kitbash of one of the PC cars out of a Walthers car a
while
> back, and had cut it into a three bay, but then I discovered that the
> Walthers car is taller, and that would have required lengthwise sectioning
> to get the height right, and that kinda killed the project!! :-(
>
>
> Walt Gay
> grumpy ex-car knocker
> Walt's Hobby Shop
> Petersburg, VA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Jordak" <jer -AT- smellycat.com>
> To: "Penn Central Mailing List" <penn-central -AT- smellycat.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:30 PM
> Subject: PC: [Fwd: FW: [FC] Flexi-flo hoppers]
>
>
> > Someone just happened to forward this to me today about the Flexi-Flo
> > hoppers, so I thought I'd pass this on as it is pertinent to the
> discussion.
> >
> > -JWJ
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Freightcars List
> > [mailto:freightcars@sunny16.photo.tntech.edu]On Behalf Of Jim Eager
> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:32 PM
> > To: freightcars -AT- sunny16.photo.tntech.edu
> > Subject: Re: [FC] Flexi-flo hoppers
> >
> > Gregg Mahlkov wrote:
> >  >NYC did have some cement covered
> >  >hoppers that were stencilled "Flexi-Flo" but any covered hopper could
be
> >  >used in "Flixi-Flo" service.
> >
> > True enough, but I presume Frank specifically meant the cars marked
> > Flexi-Flo.
> >
> >  >AHM once made an approximation of these cars
> >  >but they weren't very accurate.
> >
> > On the contrary, the AHM model is not a bad rendition of the early
> > ACF Flexi-Flo, NYC 885800-885824, blt ACF 8-64, lot 941-H, but that
> > is only 25 cars. NYC 885825-885899 (ACF 7-65 , lot 963-H) &
> > 85680-885799/ PC 897680-897799 (ACF 4=6-66, lot 996-H) did not have
> > the vertical ribs along the bottom third of the carbody that are on
> > the early cars and the AHM model. Of course the detail of the AHM
> > model is no where near what we now expect. Overland's model matches
> > the later version, btw.
> >
> > PC 898000-898109, H58, were also marked Flexi-Flo. These were a
> > completely different design manufactured by Butler Manufacturing for
> > North American Car and leased to the PC. These were a 3-bay version
> > of the pressure-diffential cars that Walthers made. Overland has done
> > these in brass as well.
> >
> >  >A grungy, grubby, two-bay Centerflow in NYC
> >  >reporting marks would problably be more accurate for cement service
via
> a
> >  >Flexi-Flo terminal, as far as I can recall.
> >
> > Except that PC did not have any 2-bay Center Flows.
> >
> > --
> > Jim Eager           jeager -AT- sympatico.ca
> > Toronto, Canada
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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