Where I live, the NBSR (New Brunswick Southern Railroad) is my favourite shortline.In one community on a passing siding there is a older former Bangor and Aroostock 50 foot bulkhead pulp flatcar with extended poles on its sides to hold railway ties. It was build in May of 1958, and has been on this siding for a long time and is now numbered as NBS #1711.There is no information on the real life railcar manufacturer, as the markings are weathered over. I am looking to find what specific type of bulkhead end flatcar its called, as I wish to find on in HO or N scale to model it. Here are some pictures of it. Its 51' feet in length and 44' wide space between each of the bulkheads.
A quick search brought up THIS.
In the second set of photos, a car similar to the one in your photos is shown, built by Magor in 1956. However, the car is listed as being 45' in-length....perhaps that's the distance between the bulkhead ends.
The cars were originally v-deck pulpwood cars (for 4' pulpwood logs loaded crossways) but in 1977, the cars were re-built to handle 8' pulpwood logs, loaded longitudinally and held in place by side stakes.
Wayne
Hey thanks Wayne I do appriciate it. I do realize I could have google searched it, but I did try that with trying to find it in the NBSRs rolling stock eqipment list. And because forums are staring to not be use as much, prehaps I was helping keep this forum going some how.
There is no model of this exact car.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
cv_acr There is no model of this exact car.
RRpicturearchives.net has a rolling stock and locomotive roster. Your car isn't listed.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/rsList.aspx?id=NBSR
Check the list of roster links on the upper right.
Mike.
My You Tube
mbinsewi RRpicturearchives.net has a rolling stock and locomotive roster. Your car isn't listed.
And?
That just means no one has submitted a photo of it to this site. But he has a photo of it so it obviously exists.
cv_acrAnd? That just means no one has submitted a photo of it to this site. But he has a photo of it so it obviously exists.
Exactly what I meant. NOT saying it doesn't exist Chris.
cv_acr mbinsewi RRpicturearchives.net has a rolling stock and locomotive roster. Your car isn't listed. And? That just means no one has submitted a photo of it to this site. But he has a photo of it so it obviously exists.
mbinsewiIt does, I got these pics from my provinces railfan group to show, and there are if you look up "Harvey," in the "RailsNB, facebook group. There is no info on the freight cars builder, or specific type of the type of bulkhead flatcar. cv_acr And? That just means no one has submitted a photo of it to this site. But he has a photo of it so it obviously exists. Exactly what I meant. NOT saying it doesn't exist Chris. Mike.
cv_acr And? That just means no one has submitted a photo of it to this site. But he has a photo of it so it obviously exists.
Engi1487 I got these pictures from a Facebook group. Problem is there is not info on the builder or specific name type of this bulk end flatcar.
My initial reply notes the builder, and the link which I provided also shows a photo of one of the cars. Looks to me to be a very simple scratchbuild.
The link also included info that the cars were originally built for hauling 4' pulpwood logs (a vee-type deck, indicating that the logs were loaded transversely), but were later modified to carry 8' pulpwood logs loaded longitudinally, and held in place with welded side stakes.
Thought you woulda had at least a couple built by now...
doctorwayne Thought you woulda had at least a couple built by now... Wayne
It looks to me like it is loaded with old railroad ties. Could it be in Maintenance Of Way service?
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190 It looks to me like it is loaded with old railroad ties. Could it be in Maintenance Of Way service? -Kevin
Hi Kevin. Currently it is used for M.O.W. storage and just sits there. No one has reported it being moved for a while and it probably hasnt for a while.
Engi1487 What makes you think I should have had a couple of them by now being a basic beginner? Thanks for your link, it will help me.
We're all basic beginners when we start out, but will remain so until we do something. I found that I enjoyed doing something, and continue to work at improving my output.
I figured that if you were interested in them, you'd want to build a few. Pretty-well any 50' flatcar would be a good starting point, and would put you at the more-than-half-done point. All you need to do is get some sheet styrene (Evergreen) and make the bulkhead ends. Brake gear (the part of it on the B-end of the car) is available from Tichy, as is wire for the grabirons, and there are lots of companies selling ladders if you don't wish to make your own.
This was originally a 40' pulpwood flat, from Athearn, but since I'm not modelling the paper industry, I cut it in two and added a 10' piece to the deck, making it a 50'-er, along with some scratchbuilt sides to convert it into a gondola...
...it was done just to put the pulpwood car to better use, but turned out well-enough that I picked up a couple more pulpwood cars, cheap, off the "used" table at my LHS, converting them in the same manner.
This is an Athearn 50' flatcar, (one of two) with bulkhead ends from a Walthers 53'6" flatcar. The Walthers kits (3750 Series) came with rub rails and other details for making a TOFC car, and with bulkhead ends, in case you didn't want just an ordinary flat car...
I built the Walthers flatcars as plain flatcars...
...and spent more time making the loads...
doctorwayneMy initial reply notes the builder, and the link which I provided also shows a photo of one of the cars. Looks to me to be a very simple scratchbuild.
I think Wayne's initial post and link are right on. There is info out there on the Magor Car Corp.
https://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/magor.htm
doctorwayne Engi1487 What makes you think I should have had a couple of them by now being a basic beginner? Thanks for your link, it will help me. We're all basic beginners when we start out, but will remain so until we do something. I found that I enjoyed doing something, and continue to work at improving my output. I figured that if you were interested in them, you'd want to build a few. Pretty-well any 50' flatcar would be a good starting point, and would put you at the more-than-half-done point. Wayne
I figured that if you were interested in them, you'd want to build a few. Pretty-well any 50' flatcar would be a good starting point, and would put you at the more-than-half-done point. Wayne
Engi1487...sorry about over reacting...
Don't worry, I didn't take it that way. I know that it's hard to do stuff that you've never done, but I was just trying to give you a little push - sometimes we can surprise ourselves with formerly unrealised skills.