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Best of Mainline Modeler's Freight Cars Book 2 Vol 2 Soft Cover 1991 100 pg
The Best of Mainline Modelers Freight Cars Book 2 Vol 2
Soft Cover
Copyright 1991
100 pages.
BOX CARS
Coors Insulated Box Carby Robert J. Zenk10
Construction of an Epoxy USRA
Single-Sheathed Box Carby John Munson24
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio/Minneapolis & St. Louis/
Rock Island/Alton Aluminum Box Carby Dave Wagner38
USRA Single-Sheathed Box Carby James E. Lane47
Construction of a Single-Sheathed Box Carby John Nehrich72
The Greenville 60-Foot Box Carby M.E. Vaughan/Todd Sullivan86
BALLAST CARS
St. Louis-San Francisco Ballast Car by ACFby Charlie Dischinger6
FLAT CARS
Burlington Northern Bulkhead Flatby Tom Hoff97
GRAIN CARS
Canadian National Articulated Grain Carby Bill McKean62
Canadian National Grain Car Modelingby Bob Boudreau80
HOPPERS
Three-Bay Covered Hopperby Mont Switzer35
Florida East Coast Ortner Hopperby Robert L. Hundman66
REEFERS
Reefer Dress Upby Duncan Still19
1941 Composite Refrigerator Carby Robert L. Hundman56
Modeling an MDT Composite Reeferby Robert L. Hundman92
STOCK CARS
Baltimore & Ohio's Mather Stock Carby Gary Schierl43
Chesapeake & Ohio's Stock Carby Mark Montague84
TANK CARS
Tank Car Pleasure: Twin Dome Kit Modificationby Mark Fedderson20
CABOOSE
New York Central Bay-Window Cabooseby Jim Six32
REFERENCE DATA
ADM Freight Carsby David Casdorph68
Box cars, ballast cars, flat, grain, hoppers, reefers, stock, tank cars, caboose, ADM freight cars, more.
As a matter of clarification, the Frisco Railroad personnel called the cars "chat" cars. If you would refer to one of them as a ballast car, you more than likely would receive a strange puzzled stare. The reason being that the Frisco for many years used the "chat" piles from the former lead mines in the Joplin, Missouri District (southeast Kansas, northeast Okla-horn, and southwest Missouri) as a source of ballast for the right-of-way.
The geologic definition of chat is "the finely crushed gangue remaining after the extraction of lead and zinc minerals in the Joplin, Missouri District." Gangue is "the commercially worthless mineral matter associated with economically valuable metallic minerals in a deposit." In the Colorado mining district, this stuff is referred to as "slag piles" or "tailings."
The Tri-State area mentioned above, for many years since the mining ceased in the fifties, was known for the huge piles of chat, many of them covering more than forty acres and being more than 300 feet high. It almost gave the area a mountain-looking skyline. However, in recent years, the chat has become an economically valuable material in itself, as it has a very high Chert content and is very resistant to erosion. Some of the material has even been shipped to Saudi Arabia to coat the oil pipelines in combination with tar to protect them from wind and sand erosion.
Today, the great piles of chat left from the former lead and zinc mines are almost completely gone. But the importance of the chat itself has spurred some talk of reopening the mines . . . not for lead and zinc, but rather for the chat. On the Frisco, any finely crushed limestone rock in the Ozark region is referred to as "chat."
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