USRA SS Boxcar in 1/8 Scale

[FLtenwheeler]

Is there anyone interested in USRA Single Sheathed boxcars in 1/8 scale?

There were used by a lot of railroads with 25,000 being built.

Thanks
Tim Meyer

[FLtenwheeler]

Here is a list of the 25 Railroads that used the USRA SS boxcars.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atlantic Coast Line
Boston & Maine
Charleston & Western Carolina
Chicago & North Western
Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago, Minneapolis, St Paul & Omaha
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Grand Trunk Western
Great Northern
Kansas City Southern
Minneapolis & St Louis
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
New York, Chicago & St Louis
Northwestern Pacific 100 SSC
Pere Marquette
St Louis-San Francisco
Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Toledo & Ohio Central
Wabash

[Mark Landgraf]

Tim

What kind of car ends do you anticipate using? Dreadnaight, Murphy, or re-inforced wood?

What are you thinking for the roof? Wood with membrane or raised seam steel panels?

Tim, if you need manufacturer drawings, contact me off group at mark_landgraf at yahoo dot com

About 15 years ago, I made up a punch and die set to do viable rib count Murphy ends. The trials were successful, but having aluminum die pieces and steel punch pieces, it was more of a proof of concept tooling rather than production tooling. If you want I can take a few photos.

Mark Landgraf
Albany NY

[FLtenwheeler]

I am moving right along with the design work.

USRA Boxcar Frame.JPG (175.35 KiB) Viewed 1959 times

[jcbrock]

Tim, very interesting project! I've off and on been working on drawing a 5/5/5 corrugated end in Fusion360 but haven't gotten very far.

[FLtenwheeler]

Tim, very interesting project! I've off and on been working on drawing a 5/5/5 corrugated end in Fusion360 but haven't gotten very far.

I will most likely do it in 3 pieces out of steel. Lucky my son has a CNC mill to make the forming blocks.

Tim

[jcbrock]

I thought similarly, it's unfortunate all of the three pieces are unique but it's going to be easier to press the corrugations that way. Are you thinking one die with all 5 corrugations or a die with a single corrugation and some kind of registration to get them spaced correctly? I haven't looked at the double-sheathed car drawings to see, but could you do them with the same die on slightly wider stock?

John

[FLtenwheeler]

Hi John

I think the corrugations might be the I will see if I can find a drawing and check.

I have already spent a good amount of money with a couple of museums on this first project.

Tim

[FLtenwheeler]

I thought similarly, it's unfortunate all of the three pieces are unique but it's going to be easier to press the corrugations that way. Are you thinking one die with all 5 corrugations or a die with a single corrugation and some kind of registration to get them spaced correctly? I haven't looked at the double-sheathed car drawings to see, but could you do them with the same die on slightly wider stock?

John

The corrugations are the same for both the Single Sheathed and the Double Sheathed. The ends are different sizes to fit each boxcar.

Tim