???????????? Elden I have seen dozens of consist lists posted here (conductor's books) and I have bought conductors' books on Ebay. Friends have given me a number of modern consist printouts. I

Yes, I have a couple of the same Challenger cars, received gratis for having helped with proto info. You are right that the operating rod for the doors should be square. Some of the 1920s GS

30 bucks??? Does this guy have an address?? (I just saw one listed for $150) Challenger imported both SP G-50-9 and G-50-12 models. And similar UP gondolas too. Tim O'Connor

Yes, but only after WWII.

Rich Orr wrote: Boron was indeed a subsidiary of Sohio but there were Boron stations in Ohio, too. Not sure how all that worked. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

I also managed to stea...uh...acquire an Overland GATC 8,000 gal vertical course tank car...unpainted...Overland # 3481. Overland seems to think this car served Oldetyme Distillers, Mi-Co, Gasoline,

JIm, many years ago the late Terry Metcalfe had found a cache of wheel reports for the location and date he wanted to model on the Union Pacific and was well along with the research that would

I am back to using Solidworks again. I have designed 1 container so far in S Scale. http://www.lanestrains.com/Lanes_Trains_Containers.jpg I am looking for a person or small group of people in HO and

Jim and Group, While I do not model specific trains, I do base my modeling on a somewhat similar bit of information. My operation scheme for my switching layout has its foundation based upon the

These are part of a little sprue of boxcar details offered by Tichy. Also they are part of the styrene 1/2 door detailing set done a few years ago by "Standard Car Company," an offshoot I think of New

I've done it with passenger trains, but not freight. lack of reference materials on my part mostly as I'd like to do an accurate mixed train sometime. Jim Murrie -

Why not? Primarily because they are not available for the road I model. They were consider to contain information that was valuable to competitors so the sheets were routinely destroyed by the

$30! Sure it isn't hot? 8^) Thanks! -- Brian P. Ehni From: mike brock <brockm@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 12:19:55 -0400 To: STMFC List

For Tony Thompson but open to all: I attended a regional NMRA event this last weekend in Ocala, FL, at which some guy was selling brass cars at rather low prices. I picked up an SP G-50-12 by

Sohio did business in Pennsylvania as Boron and IIRC in a few other states surrounding Ohio Rich Orr

I do use actual consists when ever possible.Naturally I can not run an entire train but break a single consist to a more manageable number.The rest will be sent in a "Second Section".Because I have

Some revised numbers and something I forgot to mention. My wife has had the opportunity to go through ALL the registration forms and then add the workers to the total count and we had 69 folks in

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Jim; It's because only a handful of actual train consists survived. In at least one big example, they were routinely destroyed to keep shipper info and

Jim, Lots of folks do this or something similar. I disparagingly call it "ground hog day" syndrome because you are doomed to repeat the same thing over and over again. If you are interested in

Jim Yes, the thought has occurred to me and I'm sure to many others. I have seen consists for 1950's and 1960's "mixed freights" (not unit trains) where most of the cars can be modeled in HO