I've always thought it slightly odd that no other road built a 4-8-8-4. I suppose had steam ruled for another decade, someone would have built one. Which may have caused it to have another name. Or

Hmmm. Well...I think I now know enough that I am probably going to be safe by referring to those trucks with roller bearings as...well...roller bearing equipped trucks and those without roller

Back in January I shared the preproduction model of the upcoming Wabash Stock Car kit. Since then a few things have evolved. Work moves forward, albeit a little slower than we'd hoped, but the big

Tony, I am bailing on this, but it would be useful to know the context of the Railway Age articles. I would suspect they are referring to the presence, or lack thereof, of oil flow control passages

Richard, I was going to drop this, but... SNIP Before Mike steps in, and to show my continued ignorance, I am merely trying to educate members of the group. I agree that the modeling impact of

Dave Evans wrote: I agree that there may not be a clear usage we can call "standard," but particularly in reading _Railway Age_ (and I have read a lot of their pieces in the 1930 to 1960 era,

Ray, Bill Scheider is correct that all of the P/L schemes to be applied to the models are prototypically correct (with the one small exception he mentions). The era they're correct for is,

After many paragraphs of discussion about bearings and bearing lubrication, most of it irrelevant for modeling purposes, Dave Evans concludes: Dave seems incapable of comprehending Tony's point

Tony, et al, Three corrections/additions to my previous post. Unfortunately they are not going to clarify the issue. 1) While Magnus did manufacture bearing components with holes in the babbitt, it

I will add that a variety of patented lubricators were introduced in the 1950s which, in some form, secured the packing in place so that it remained constantly in contact with the journals These

I agree with Tom, the tabs are on an improved lid seal, and while they may have improved oil quality (allowing less dust into the box) they did nothing to improve lubrication. That device was the

Ron These were rubber lid seals held in place by the tabs you mention. Tom Birkett From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] On Behalf Of mopacfirst Sent: Sunday, April 29,

HI all, First, an update on the reefer - The tooling is finished, but we are waiting for final (I hope...) samples and for production time at the factory. "The Canadian" passenger train and FP9

Hi Group, These Rapido 36' Meat reefers you mentioned. What railroads and shippers actually had these cars? I have seen the ads for these cars in the periodicals. I'm wondering are all of the

What was the device, introduced in the 50s I think, that was supposed to increase the reliability of applying oil to the bearing surface inside the box? The spotting feature of this device was four

Tony, As I also wrote, I think the Cyclopedia's are schizophrenic on this and do not provide clear guidance. They needed a better editor ;-) The root cause for this is that journal bearing

Hi All, Looking for information on flat car series 2551-2560. I am not sure if the following series, 2561-2585 are the same. I have Train Shed Cyclopedia #17. This does give me some good information,

Thanks Tony, I believe I will adopt the term "plain bearings" or "plain journal bearings" when discussing the conventional journal bearings used on freight car trucks. After reviewing this

Last email I had from Rapido said June. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office:

Richard Hendrickson says: "That, at least, has something vaguely to do with freight cars (the list topic, remember?), which almost all other posts on this topic emphatically do not. Where are our