My C&S stockcar bash

[pgandw]

Since there hasn't been any posts in this area of the forum for sometime, I thought I should share a my recent work on bashing a Grandt Line C&S On3 stockcar. Similarly, I hadn't posted on a blog for a few months and so I put them up there as well.

The C&S freight cars can be classified into four groups: the inherited cars (ex-DSP&P, CC, U&N, and KC)...and the three groups Harry Brunk designated Type I, II, and III. The Type I, II, and III cars shared a common design, but the details vary greatly between classes and subtly within classes.

The Type I cars were built between 1897 and 1906. Some were built by St. Charles/AC&F, but the hardware was fairly common between them and they all rode on arch bar trucks. Note that some of these were inherited, as the C&S wasn't created until after the first were built. San Juan Car Co offers an expensive version of the stock and boxcars of this type...too expensive for my taste.

The Type II cars were built 1907-1908 and featured hardware purchased from Betterndorf and rode on Betterndorf trucks.

The Type III cars were built 1909-1910 and had largely the same hardware as the Type IIs, but had steel underframes (SUFs). These last cars offered by Grandt Line, P-B-L, and others. The Grandt and P-B-L (Grandt tooling) kits are cost effective and beautiful. The Type IIIs were most commonly found on the Climax run in the later years along with the three largest 2-8-0s.

The C&S had approx 120 of the modern stockcars. 50 were Type Is, 20 were Type IIs, and the remaining 50 were Type IIIs.

Thanks very much for the prototype information on the C&S cars. Very good to know and understand.

Fred W