Thanks Richard One of the reasons I ask is that there is a big difference in the wheel base of the Accurail vs. the Tichy. I am assuming Brian's are dimensionally right on. Bill Welch

It occurred to me that this post may contain a better exposition: http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2012/03/freight-traffic-ca-1957-johnson-county.html although on a much more local scale. When

and... Jim, Thanks for your comments. I've no doubt that a modeler would be well served to consider the local environment while designing the composition of a freight car "fleet". In my view, the

wow this is pretty crazy you should look into it http://www.news-15.net/biz/?news=0942822

Bill, I also see Atlas has tooled their own version of the Andrews trucks for use under their line of USRA rebuilds. I am interested to know which version is most appropriate for use under the Y'all

Bill, all of them represent the same prototype, the 50 ton USRA Andrews design. And all are good. But, of course, Brian's is better. Richard Hendrickson

With the release of Brian's newest trucks, I am now wondering if it possible to say what the Andrews trucks offered by InterMountain, Tichy, and Accurail represent. Bill Welch 2225 Nursery Road;

Jared, According to Yahoo! : "In an effort to prevent spammers from exploiting this feature, we decided to remove the 'forward' button from the Yahoo! Groups Web interface. We believe

Paul J.P. Barger wanted to do this, and was in earnest. He presented his ideas (and fascinating clinics on trucks and couplers) at Cocoa Beach the last time I went there (many years ago). The

NO TROLLING THE LIST! Look at the scale of those things! This might be larger-scale than nanotech, but it's just as intriguing, and applicable to making things like operating scale-sized switch

The image links below are from the Huntington Digital Library ( http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ <http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/> ) and belong to the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. These

Yes, I've known about Sergent. They are about as close to the idea yet. Thanks, Paul Hillman

Ahhhh, have you tried going to' http://www.sergentengineering.com/ Should be just what you're looking for. John Hagen

Couldn't a coupler be developed that had a miniature, internal micro-magnet (or something), that could be opened using a handheld light-emitter wand (or something) ? It could operate like a prototype

I think Tim is correct here... and IMO the thought can be extended to explain the move to the pre-order / very limited inventory business model too. Inventory is, after all, cash in a much less

Although this is off-topic, and the thread should not go much further, it is none-the-less quite interesting. MEMS technology is the foundation of the device featured in the link offered by Mr.

Charles, I find your statistics very interesting - but am at a total loss as to how they might be used to do anything other than trying to adjust the number of cars - by type - in the "fleet" of a

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I can't think of any particular model application for this off the top of my head, but it looks pretty interesting ... It's kinda fascinating that they can produce up-and-down motion without any

Yes, Tom, I will be handling these Andrews trucks. I have my 1st pair, and they are following the tradition of their older siblings-exquisite! -Andy Carlson Ojai