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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2008, 04:07:46 PM »
At MNGR, we have many cars that are in need of various levels of repair. So lesson learned is to keep what you have in a good state of repair before going and building more.

Yes, MNGR still has a tank car. Unfortunately, it has been sitting outside deteriorating in the salt air. It's deck is rotted and it needs a good blast and paint job. Bridgton has offered to take this care for a few years and fix it up by putting a new deck on it and repainting it.  This is offer is currently under consderation at MNGR. Although we have many cars off site at various places on lease, we still would like to move some more cars off site to make additional room and to allow others the opportunity to fix them up and display or use them. At MNGR we just don't have the space, manpower, money or the facilities to repair everything we got.

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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2008, 05:57:47 PM »
Maybe some of the camera folks could get a photo of the bottom of the tank as it now is and post it.

As requested (another Marcel photo from the newsletter):


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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2008, 08:38:03 PM »
I think the talk has been restoring the tank to SOCONY but when the car is built it might be a WW&F car. I don't know what number the car would get but building that is way down on the to do list.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2008, 09:15:36 PM »
Perhaps since the tankcar is a new type of car to the WW&F (W&Q) railroad it should start a new # series,  I don't see any numbers higher than 510 on the historical list so I think 601 would be a suitible number.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #34 on: December 12, 2008, 01:33:48 PM »
One WW&F SOCONY tank coming up!
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #35 on: December 12, 2008, 02:25:43 PM »
Eric,

Very nice drawing. Thanks. I think I'll build a model of that in O scale.

Anyone have a rough estimate for the length and diameter of the tank?
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #36 on: December 12, 2008, 05:55:03 PM »
It sat pretty snug on a 30' car. I would guess 28'. If I remember, I'll measure it tomorrow.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #37 on: December 12, 2008, 07:15:17 PM »
Belive I have seen photos of the tank lettered SOCONY and not the company name completely spelled out

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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #38 on: December 12, 2008, 07:55:23 PM »
One WW&F SOCONY tank coming up!

Nice drawing of the future WW&F tankcar #601! Cant wait to see the the real finished one once its built! Man I love the rebuild rolling stock projects!  :o :) :D ;D
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #39 on: December 12, 2008, 10:01:16 PM »
According to the photos in "Bridgton and Saco River Railroad Freight Cars" (Barney) the car was labeled "STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW YORK" on the sides, and "SOCNY" on the front and back of the tank. The tank was painted white or gray, and had black lettering.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #40 on: December 13, 2008, 12:14:06 AM »
It sat pretty snug on a 30' car. I would guess 28'. If I remember, I'll measure it tomorrow.


Scaling off from photos there seems to be close to three feet of open flat car on either end of the car. So I would place the length of the tank around 24'. The dia. I would say is around 5'. This is based off of photos and the drawings in the back of "Two Feet to the Lakes" so take it for what its worth.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #41 on: December 13, 2008, 07:03:36 PM »
OK. Finally found this thread. Way to much stuff on here now. The Tank is 24 feet long on the flat parts of the tank, and 25 feet to the tip of the bulge in the end of the tank. 16' 6" around, or a little more than 5 feet across. Home this helps. Oh, and looking at a B&SR book last night, it was on a 30 foot car.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #42 on: December 13, 2008, 11:15:47 PM »
What color should we paint the tankcar body once its ready to be painted? Should it be painted Edaville black or B&SR sliver? ::)  ;) :)
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #43 on: December 14, 2008, 09:35:37 AM »
I believe the tank will be silver as it was on Bridgton & Saco River. The car will most likely be red. This car is a ways off due to higher priorities.
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Re: Building new rolling stock for WW&F!
« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2008, 11:50:02 AM »
Mike,

Thank you for the tank measurements. It is larger than I thought.
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