I rechecked the IH data on the kit I have after looking them up on the STMFC photo gallery, and it does indeed say 10'8" IH not 10'6" as I had reported earlier. Bud

Guy, Thanks for your reply. I kind of like the looks of cars with the white stripe, makes them stand out in a train, but if its not prototypical, I ain't gonna do it! This car BTW has a 10'6" IH as

Scott Seders asks: Before WW II, some M27s kept their original arch bar or Andrews trucks, but all the postwar photos I have (ten or so) of both single and double door versions show them with ARA

Victor, In the Jan. 1953 ORER, the O&W had exactly 180 cars - 34 cabooses, 13 boxcars, 13 gons, 1 flat & 119 twin hoppers. Some of the hoppers may have carried Anthracite east to Maybrook and

Vic, The only O&W cars that saw any regular interchange in later years were hoppers. The last boxcars the road had were all 36' wood cars that were pretty much on their last legs by the 50's and they

I have never seen a photo of a NYO&W freight car on a foreign road, say for example in the 1950's. I know the Old and Weary went out of business in 1957 and that they were mostly a bridge road but

I am in the process of preparing my presentation for Naperville: "The Wood Sheathed Cars of the FGEX/WFEX/BREX Freight Refrigerator Fleet: 1940-1953." In fact I spent most of every day last week

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the STMFC group. File : /model_PSC_15752.1_b&o_M27f_underframe.JPG

jssand@... writes: Steve, I believe this is Moore County. Nice listing, however! There are numerous boxcars and reefers all over this country. Seems they were the "barn of choice" for many

writes: Steve, I think you mean the East side of Amarillo. Virgil Young Amarillo, TX vyoung5622@...

Richard, Thanks for your enlightening response. The car-type codes used in the conductor book are usually simple to understand and I've interpreted them as follows: A (auto), B (box), F (flat), G

And a worthy car for attention it is! It is likely that the brake arrangement did differ on the M-27 from the PRR (didn't PRR use a transversely mounted reservoir for instance?). Unfortunately, I

Ben, Thanks for the input. From what I can tell, no X37b cars had the Evans racks and hence a white stripe on the door. The model I have was purchased painted and lettered as an X37b #67368 with a

This must be the season for M27's. I am currently working on an M27C and an M27F. Bill Darnaby mentioned in his excellent review of the M27 that the photo to illustrate the AB mounting detail is

I was a driver in a caravan of 8 vans taking kids to camp this week. As a diversion from the noise of the kids, I kept track of steam era rail cars and other noticeable things located along the way,

I started putting together a couple of the B&O M27's this weekend and ran into the same problems Bill did with the car with the lap seam roof. Instead of fighting it, I pulled out an extra roof from

Hi All, New to the group and finding it very interesting and instructive. Want to say a big thanks to the Goon who posted the 2 Clinchfield hopper photos for giving me a big laugh. Regards, Des

All, The filter cut off Greg's attachment. Here's the text from Dan Cupper's post on PRR-talk: Friends: It's my sad duty to report the death, after a brief illness, of Ted Rose, widely known

Hey Yuze Gize, It is a sad day for all of us in the hobby... I picked up this message on the PRR-Talk list from Dan Cupper and felt it was worth sharing. I never met Ted Rose but last October in

Hi Eric, I thought Tim's posting was for all USA coal production. The RR's in Appalachia were leaders in the development of steel hoppers. In all other parts of the USA in 1907 much coal was moving