{"id":392,"date":"2011-10-03T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2021-06-22T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:02:34","slug":"two-more-schorr-conversion-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Two More Schorr Conversion Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of the article featuring the hopper conversions in <i>The OO Road<\/i> in 1996 (as featured in the previous post) Bill Gilbert noted \u201cI enjoy creating the variety of car types used by specific railroads without getting too nit-picky on dimensions and details. Now if someone has an extra Schorr covered hopper I would like to convert the Pullman Standard model to an ACF. The major differences are the triangle cut-outs on the sides and square hatches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrACFtwin.jpg?resize=589%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2328\" width=\"589\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrACFtwin.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrACFtwin.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrACFtwin.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A photo of a car that had completed that conversion may be found in the August, 2000 issue of <i>The OO Road<\/i> (before painting), and may be seen again in the June, 2007 issue. In that issue he wrote \u201cNote change of end hat section ribs to channel, addition of a center rib, triangle cutouts, and changing the round hatches to square ones.\u201d This photo is of the car today, with a stock version of the car for comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrLOWgon.jpg?resize=602%2C389&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2329\" width=\"602\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrLOWgon.jpg?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrLOWgon.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrLOWgon.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrLOWgon.jpg?resize=850%2C550&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In that same 2007 article he also has a photo of this \u201ccut down gondola\u201d converted to \u201ca low side N&amp;W style.\u201d Here is that car today as well, with a stock Schorr gondola for comparison. A piece of brass channel stock tops the sides. Gilbert also notes that \u201cVirgina, Southern, and Seaboard also used low side gondolas.\u201d It is a distinctive car and with the load it has some weight and tracks well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are both great cars, very nicely decorated and executed, and great on the layout. I will feature more cars by Bill Glibert soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the article featuring the hopper conversions in The OO Road in 1996 (as featured in the previous post) Bill Gilbert noted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kitbashing","category-schorr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SchorrACFtwin.jpg?fit=999%2C670&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}