________________________________________ Group: As a modeler in the minority scale of S and of the time period 1952-53, I am always looking for decal suppliers whose product accurately represents

I know I have photos of cars in service as late as 1973 with vertical staff brakes, long after our Steam Freight Car time frame. ______________ J. Stephen (Steve)

Bill Botkin wrote: I don't know if they were ever outlawed as such, but they were certainly still permissible and in use in 1960, the outer limit of topics on this list. Tony Thompson

I don't know that they were specifically outlawed, but they would have been made obsolete after the rule requiring removal of running boards and shortening of ladders in 1966. I know the CB&Q retained

Sorry if this topic has been discussed previously. Can anyone provide the date when vertical brake staffs on boxcars were outlawed and how long they lasted after that date? Thanks. Bill

The Wyndham is on the north side of I-88, east of Naperville Rd on Warrenville Rd. Less than five minutes from the Marriot. Chet French Dixon, IL

Hi to all again, I have what I need thanks to Richard Hendrickson and Joseph Jacques and others who have put me on the straight and narrow. That's why I am on this list the amount of expertise on

Effective today, Wright Trak Models owns my HO SAL B7 patterns, instructions and production rights. I am mailing the last 25 SMMW kits next week, thus completing my involvement with HO resin kit

The 2013 "Naperville" RPM meet will be held October 17-19 at the Wyndam Lisle-Chicago Hotel, Lisle, Illinois (within half a mile of the familiar Holiday Inn/Marriot facility in Naperville). Joe

Clark Propst wrote: It just says "Naperville IL area." How do you conclude it's moved? Am I missing something? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave.,

The Naperville RPM has been moved according to Joe’s website. Clark Propst Mason City Iowa [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Dennis, You -DO- realize that when you post a link to a page full of drawings of couplers (or whatever) to this list that you have just "wasted" several hundred hours of time (collectively,

Beings I model a terminal layout. Meaning all cars are unloaded or loaded by customers on the layout. I use that list and others to find loads I need. Then figure how to model the car carrying

For about a week-ten days, the loading speed of the Freight Car list has been really slow on all 3 of my Apples. Sometimes I get the message that it has timed out. Everything else loads fine. Is this

Here is a link to pages scanned from the 1922 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice that gives an illustrated explaination: http://tinyurl.com/as5vs9s The current Type E coupler works exactly

I just started working on one of Chad's 65000 series GN flats and could not find any mention of what one should use for the hand brake mechanism. Any suggestions? Ken Roth

Clark, I don't think the question is silly at all. The M&StL had, after all, a number of USRA two-bay hopper cars purchased used in the very late 1930s and 1940s. The assumption that the 1334 cars

When the lift lock is pushed up, it releases the coupler to swing out in the same way.  You're just pushing the part up instead of pulling it up, same part. Tom Dempsey, Spokane,

Simple answer, the lock ("pin") is more complex than a simple metal pin, it's actually a sliding metal block with a notch in it. So, It's accessible from either top or bottom. Bottom opperated

Hi all, I do understand how an uncoupling lever works when it lifts the pin from above to release the coupler. I don't understand how it works when the lever is under the coupler. It then has to push