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 Posted - February 06 2011 : 12:09:13 AM
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HobbyLine Union Switch & Signal Gondola.
I had never seen this car before getting it. Not sure how common it was during HobbyLine's years but I can't find it listed anywhere in their catalogs. Car is very light, no weights, all lightweight plastic. A load with some lead in it would cure that issue.
You don't see much for Union Switch & Signal at all in HO Scale. At least I haven't. That is surprising to me since this company is everywhere railroads are. The company started in 1881 and still exists today but recently changed names. It was orignally put together by Westinghouse, he pretty much bought up all the companies building railroad signals and switching equipment. What choice did they have, sell or be put out of business.
US&S is the company behind Copenhagen, Denmark's automated urban rail system. Quite a remarkable system that has far exceeded all expectations. You can learn more about it here.
http://www.welcome-to-my-copenhagen.com/copenhagen_metro.html
There's a link on that page to a video of the system and the tour guide alone would be a great reason to visit Denmark.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 01:26:44 AM
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Time for a Tyco or two
Dude, ,that car is,,so,,,YELLOW!
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 06:16:50 AM
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my car of the week is a caboose,ken
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 09:10:33 AM
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  I thought I'd include some New Haven passenger cars from Mantua Tyco for this week.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:14:56 AM
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Another of my recent Gilbert acquisitions is now appearing in COTW. Found this at a LHS, nice shape. Trying to build up a Gilbert consist, I have maybe 3 or 4 cars ( coal hopper, reefer, flat, and ?). Will keep looking for them until I have 7 or 8 cars.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:15:32 AM
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quote:my car of the week is a caboose,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - February 06 2011 : 06:16:50 AM
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Any idea who the manufacturer is for that caboose?
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:17:42 AM
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hi todd its a mdc/roundhouse kit ken
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:45:02 AM
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The annual Great Train Expo in Louisville was this weekend... not nearly as bountiful as past years, but I found some nice stuff nonetheless.
Favorite find would be this Tyco operating hopper that someone expertly painted in Chessie colors. $3.00? No-brainer!
The FMC centerflow is another score. Unassembled Front Range kit for $6. I used to walk past one of FMC's plants every day when I snuck through the Belt Railway Co. of Chicago's Clearing Yard en route to high school...
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:48:53 AM
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Thanks for the info Ken.
Tony, yes, a no brainer indeed, looks awesome.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 3:39:54 PM
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Todd
Union Switch & Signal gondola was produced in 1955 or 1956 right before the bulk of Hobbyline was sold to Lionel. The gondola was uncataloged and quite rare.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 3:52:14 PM
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quote:Todd
Union Switch & Signal gondola was produced in 1955 or 1956 right before the bulk of Hobbyline was sold to Lionel. The gondola was uncataloged and quite rare.
Bill
Originally posted by waw47Â -Â February 06 2011Â :Â 3:39:54 PM
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Thank you Sir.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 5:00:14 PM
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Every real railroad mogul------should have their own business car...built for me by a friend some time back...
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 6:51:39 PM
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quote: I have two of these in my fleet. One of them came with the loader and unloader with a bulldozer and forks that lift them off the flatcar.
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Posted - February 06 2011 : 11:27:05 PM
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quote:quote:Time for a Tyco or two
Originally posted by jbsmith966Â -Â February 06 2011Â :Â 01:26:44 AM
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I have two of these in my fleet. One of them came with the loader and unloader with a bulldozer and forks that lift them off the flatcar.
Originally posted by badman55Â -Â February 06 2011Â :Â 6:51:39 PM
I think I might have a couple of these piggybacks. I need to look thru my boxes...
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Posted - November 24 2015 : 9:26:35 PM
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Union Switch and Signal was a very active company from around 1870 to from your information . I has seen their name mentioned in a few old publications. I do know they has a design and supply center building in South Easton PA in with the Lehigh Valley railroad maintance buildings. Probably did all there, the LV, work back then. I have the same car by HObbyline. I haven't seen the name used anywhere else. I have a photo of LV 245 a 4-4-0c camelback pulling the Black Diamond during there early runs. A signal system pole 383 was numbered and the number placed the location of the photo in the south end of the Rochester branch a few miles north of Rochester Junction. I found this looking through a number of magazines. Cassier's Engineering Magazine. I was looking for railroad related stuff and in a 1905 volume of Cassier's. At the time I was building a LV 4-4-0 camelback. I hit page 251 and a article started on railroad signals systems in America. The article seemed to be about US&S systems. On page 261 there was the photo of LV 425. At the time I was very familiar with the 4-4-0 's of the LV and this loco was one of the class I was building and no other photo I knew of existed of #425 named Rollin H. Wilbur, class E-48. It was quite a find .
Well that is how I found out about US&S . and yes it is a interesting car.
frank
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Posted - November 25 2015 : 12:54:23 AM
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well US&S is defunct as of 2006 
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Posted - November 25 2015 : 11:27:25 AM
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| Some fine cars and photographs and interesting discussion regarding US Signal. Could be quite fine to model some US Signal operations. That's a fine build on that caboose Ken and I'm diggin' those trucks. Did you build that?
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Posted - November 25 2015 : 1:37:50 PM
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quote:That's a fine build on that caboose Ken and I'm diggin' those trucks.
Originally posted by Barry - November 25 2015 : 11:27:25 AM
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Those are Fox trucks. They were popular from about 1888 to 1910. Appropriately for this model, the NYC was the first major customer for them. This site contains some info on the trucks:
http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/pressedsteel1.htm
Ken, I also like that caboose.
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Posted - November 25 2015 : 1:40:30 PM
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yes barry,sadly it resides in new york now,the trucks i have a few sets of them,roundhouse i believe,ken
the kit
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Posted - November 27 2015 : 01:49:23 AM
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| Thanks for the links to the Pressed Steel Company Don. What do you think the vintage of that MDC caboose kit is Ken?
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Posted - November 27 2015 : 08:41:34 AM
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the kit dates from around 1973/4 and was still being produced in the 80s barry
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