On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 08:47 PM, Richard Remiarz wrote:

I don’t know if this part was unique to the later cars that were modeled by the Sunshine kit, or if it was used on all series of Soo sawtooth boxcars.

You mean this: https://realstmfc.groups.io/g/main/album?id=43499

I've never seen one on any Soo car with a fishbelly UF, nor is it shown on the Haskell & Barker drawings of the early twenties cars (the prototype for that kit) so surmise they were only on the later cars. The only one of the 1926, 28, 29, and 30 built cars I've been able to inspect is the 1929 car at the Illinois Railway Museum, where those pix were taken.

Dennis Storzek

Elliot,

Rich,
Thank you for the great info! What did you use for the rod that the brake chain “slider” rides on while connected to the chain?  Brass strip? Size? It connects the brake cylinder to the rigging via the chain.

I hope I am explaining it well, the sunshine instructions had a picture of this assembly, supposedly unique to the sawtooth cars.
Elliot 

Attached are photos of a KCS Interim AAR boxcar I just completed.  It was built from a Speedwitch kit.  The flat finish dried less than 2 hours before packing the car and bringing it to the Twin Cities Modeler’s Retreat.  Nothing like a deadline to drive progress.

Tim writes:

**** Thanks Steve. You're right but I have ignored the treatment of the flat-bottom top major rib because EVERYONE in the hobby biz has ignored it (in HO scale) with one Accurail exception (I think; from memory). ****

Your memory is pretty good - Accurail does make a rthin/3/3 end for some of it's reefer kits. Bill Welch posted a teaser shot a year or so ago ahead of one of his clinics. The pic did include a rthin/3/4 end. I queried him off list and he turned me on to the Accurail ends. I've got four sets here that I'm attempting to convert into a viable master suitable for casting enough in resin to cover my needs (Four dozen or so for GN, SP&S, and perhaps other cars). Unfortunately, my skills at removing ladders, brake housings, and tack boards from curve services is lacking . . . . . . ☹

**** There are dozens and dozens of examples where that feature is missing from our models. :-( ****

Yep Almost 20K cars with the IDN-2 end. I'm doing some Excel work to see if I can't do a nice job of summarizing Ed's data by various IDN-2 configurations - maybe a nice summary might temp someone to consider marketing additional end options.

Best regards,

Steve

Steve Haas
Snoqualmie, WA

Hi John and Group

Yes, I frequently get taken to the group home page instead of the attachment I had clicked on in an e-mail.  This is primarily .jpg's in my case but I have also come across .pdf's that won't load.  I have found that I can sometimes view the offending attachment by going into the list of messages on the groups.io site and clicking on the link there, but it is not always available.

Regards
Paul Woods

These are the AMC version of the 1920s ARA steel-sheathed box, with the "innie" version of the early Dreadnaught end.

This drawing shows the taller Dreadnaught end on N&W class BT, but the general profile is the same:
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=14919

David Thompson

I'm inclined to think this is someone's outside metal roof, and not any sort of all-steel roof.

David Thompson

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 12:23 PM, Gene Deimling wrote:

It appears to be a Viking roof similar to those used on SP boxcars

Yeah, it does, but I don't think the Viking name was in use in 1916, being a trade name Chicago-Cleveland transitioned to some time around WWII.

Dennis Storzek

Elliot,

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It appears to be a Viking roof similar to those used on SP boxcars

Gene Deimling 

The Valley Forge RPM has been cancelled due to Corona virus.

-- John

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