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Central of Georgia Railway
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HO scale ventilated box car kit |
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Written by Ron. Wright
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Friday, 30 October 2009 11:06 |
 HO scale vent box car has been updated and re-released The kit is based on two nearly identical groups of 40-ton steel underframe ventilated box cars built for the CofGa by Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co.: CG 56001-56500 (built in 1925) and CG 56501-58500 (built in 1926).
The kit features a highly detailed one-piece urethane resin body with separate underframe and details, including both solid and ventilated doors, and open and closed end ventilators. Decals produced by Rail Graphics (using artwork provided by the Society) are included for post-1932 lettering. Detailed instructions are provided on mini-CD.
This new release includes kits with two different styles of roofs: the as-delivered Murphy XLA roof (same as the original 2005 kit) and the Murphy "Pivoted All Steel Flexible" car roof that was applied to ventilated box cars as replacements beginning in the mid 1930s.
The underframe has also been revised to incorporate new information located during the production of the Society's HO scale pulpwood car.
Both of the roof styles are available with trucks (Tichy sideframes and Red Caboose semi-scale wheelsets) and couplers (Kadee No. 58), or without.
Four different kits are available: - Kit 1 - With as-delivered Murphy XLA roof, trucks (Tichy), wheelsets (Red Caboose), couplers (Kadee 58), and decals ($51.45, includes shipping)
- Kit 2 - With as-delivered Murphy XLA roof and decals ($46.45, includes shipping)
- Kit 3 - With the later applied Murphy Flexible All Steel roof, trucks (Tichy), wheelsets (Red Caboose), couplers (Kadee 58), and decals ($51.45, includes shipping)
- Kit 4 - With the later applied Murphy Flexible All Steel roof and decals ($46.45, includes shipping)
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 November 2009 04:42 |
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"Right Way" Vol 13 No 2, Mailed To Members |
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Written by Allen Tuten
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:15 |
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April-June 2009, Vol 13 No 2 The latest issue of The Right Way, Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society's official publication, was mailed to members on Saturday August 22, 2009. Articles include:  - A Day on the C-Line...May 16, 1959
- Emerson Foote's Silver Goblet
- "Summer Trips on Trains and Ships"
- C.G. News
Membership expirations are based on the last issue that a member is to receive. A one year membership in the Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society always includes four issues of The Right Way (regardless of the publication date). This ensures that each member receives the full benefit of their membership. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:41 |
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Edward Achorn: ‘I beg to present to you … a Christmas-gift’ |
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Written by Ron. Wright
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 22:45 |
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Posted at The Providence Journal:
There is indeed a famous Christmas tale starring William Tecumseh Sherman, and historian Stanley Weintraub tells it movingly in his new book, “General Sherman’s Christmas: Savannah, 1864” (Smithsonian/Harper Collins, $24.99). ...
[The] book is a gritty account of Sherman’s march from Atlanta to the sea between Thanksgiving and Christmas 1864, which dealt widespread devastation in the heart of the Confederacy, as he headed for the major port of Savannah. ...
Union soldiers tear up [Central of Georgia] railroad tracks, heat the rails over raging fires and bend them around trees — forming “Sherman’s bow-ties,” so that they may never be used again.
And, of course, Weintraub describes Christmas in Savannah, where, poignantly, a constant stream of former slaves –– “old and young, men, women and children, black, yellow and cream-colored, uncouth and well-bred, bashful and talkative” — passes by Sherman’s headquarters, in honor of the man who broke their chains with his great army.
When a clergyman asks the unsentimental Sherman if he may pray on Christmas Day for “certain persons,” Sherman reportedly answers: “Yes, certainly, pray for Jeff Davis. Certainly pray for the devil, too. I don’t know any two that require prayers more than they do.” |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 December 2009 23:06 |
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