Ok, so I got a HO scale Rio Grande stock car, more than likely athearn BB. It is very close to prototype pictures, but mine is numbered 64127. Is that anything close to what it should be numbered, or should I renumber it?
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if i remember correctly the D&RGW stock cars were the 36*** and 39*** series.
j. c. if i remember correctly the D&RGW stock cars were the 36*** and 39*** series.
I agree:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw36411ajs.jpg
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw39431jpa.jpg
64127 would probably be a box car:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw64113jpa.jpg
Good Luck, Ed
Thats exactly what I saw. Guess I'll have to renumber.
According to the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) for January, 1953, Rio Grande's standard gauge 40'6" stock cars were numbered 39400 through 39499 (100 cars). These did not appear in the July, 1948 ORER, so it is presumed that D&RGW obtained them between 1948 and 1953. Both 1948 and 1953 ORER's show several hundred somewhat shorter and earlier cars in the 36'6" - 9' 1" range, which were numbered 36000-36199 (200 cars) 37000-37599 (404 cars existing in 1953), and 39000-39399 (395 cars existing in 1953).
I understand the Athearn car is actually based on a fairly late UP prototype, but I don't know how accurate it is for either UP or D&RGW.
64127 does not appear in either the 1948 or 1953 issue, but I agree it would have been a boxcar.
Tom
ACY Tom I understand the Athearn car is actually based on a fairly late UP prototype, but I don't know how accurate it is for either UP or D&RGW.
The Athearn stock car is a model of a Union Pacific stock car, class S-40-12, built around 1950. UP numbers were UP 46800-46999 and UP 47400-47699. It's a double deck car, even though it has a single door per side. It would have hauled hogs and/or sheep. Or maybe sheepdogs or geese. Ya never know. But not cattle. The cars lasted 25-30 years. They tended to stay on the UP.
The model is crude but accurate.
The Rio Grande cars I'm looking at don't look similar. The diagonal brances slope the wrong way, for example.
300 of the 500 cars were equipped with roller bearings. The trucks looked the same as plain-bearing trucks, except the journal box lids were painted yellow.
Back when roller bearings were just getting some real enthusiasm, a railroad might hesitate to go with RB, because THEY were investing extra money in the car. If the car went off-line, ANOTHER railroad was reaping the benefits. So they tended to put RB's on cars that stayed on line. Like these.
Ed
Can we see a picture of your Athearn BB Stock Car?
ATSFGuy Can we see a picture of your Athearn BB Stock Car?
Probably someone else's:
Yup, that is it.
BNSF UP and others modeler Ok, so I got a HO scale Rio Grande stock car, more than likely athearn BB. It is very close to prototype pictures, but mine is numbered 64127. Is that anything close to what it should be numbered, or should I renumber it?
You can renumber it, but it's still a UP car. And not a Rio Grande.
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I do.
PS: When I was looking for a photo of your car, I went first to the Athearn website. They show photos of 10 Rio Grande stock cars. All have the 364xx number. FWIW. I see also that two of the entries are for 6 packs. Interesting.
I have a friend who actually has been putting a lot of research and work into building a Rio Grande Western (one the predecessor lines of the DRGW) stock car recently. I figure some of his posts on Facebook on the subject might be useful, especially if you want to model stock movements in the early1900's:
https://www.facebook.com/Tintic-Range-Railway-924599314374614/
The D&RGW standard gauge ran stock trains into the late 1970's, which is pretty late, but the stock cars were more modern looking than the Athearn model.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983