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waybill preparation

I've just added a new post to my blog, about waybill preparation. It's the recollections of someone who DID this job, and it clarifies the process in a way no other source could do. If you're

By Tony Thompson · #116769 ·

Re: Instead of Screws for Coupler Pockets

Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:00 am (PDT) . Posted by: _"Alan Kilby" albyrno _ (mailto:albyrn o@...?subject=Re:%20Instead%20of%20Screws%20for%20Coupler%20Pockets) I use philips head screws (I prefer

By Malcolm H. Houck · #116768 ·

Re: Instead of Screws for Coupler Pockets

I like to use flat head slotted or phillips screws and counter sink the coupler box cover. Unless you turn the model upside down nothing shows. Mark Vinski

By Mark Vinski · #116767 ·

Re: Polishing Styrene and other model materials

First, I'd like to apologize for not being able to reply sooner to all of the great responses. Life has a way of getting in the way of our fun. Second, I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback on

By hvyweight41 · #116766 ·

Re: What Type Of Ventilation Hood?

Bob Chaparro wrote: A glance at the PFE book shows it's at Bohn ventilator. These were last used on PFE production cars in 1913, Class R-30-6, except for the R-50-1 cars built in 1927. Tony

By Tony Thompson · #116765 ·

Re: What Type Of Ventilation Hood?

Those appear to be Bohn ventilators.

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #116764 ·

Re: What Type Of Ventilation Hood?

Same ventilators are found on PFE 12963 in another photo from the collection. Does appear to be a hood that covers the hatch

By Douglas Harding · #116763 ·

Re: What Type Of Ventilation Hood?

No, but whoever wrote the accompanying text thought it was a plug. Thanks! -- Brian Ehni From: Bob Chaparro <thecitrusbelt@...> Reply-To: STMFC List <STMFC@...> Date: Friday,

By BRIAN PAUL EHNI · #116762 ·

What Type Of Ventilation Hood?

There is a very sharp image of a ventilation hood on a refrigerator car on the following link. Click on the image to enlarge

By Bob Chaparro <thecitrusbelt@...> · #116761 ·

Re: Instead of Screws for Coupler Pockets

...3) The hex head looks vaguely mechanical, and is easier on the eye than a giant slotted screw head. I happen to like socket head cap screws (available down to 0-80 size)for the same reasons, from

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #116760 ·

Re: Instead of Screws for Coupler Pockets

I use philips head screws (I prefer fillister head steel screws) with a magnetized screwdriver of correct bit for screwhead and do not worry about them falling out or marring surface(the corners of

By albyrno · #116759 ·

Instead of Screws for Coupler Pockets

A while back, I bought a New Haven FL-9 and EP-5 from Mark Castigliano of New Haven Terminal/Branford Hobbies. The coupler pockets are held in by 2-56 hex head screws. Since nothing else on the

By William Mosteller · #116758 ·

Re: What Kind Of Car Is This?

Apparently soda ash made by the Solvay process is a fine granulated powder, the kind of material that railroads didn't have much experience with in 1909. The small size of the laoding hatches confirms

By soolinehistory <destorzek@...> · #116757 ·

Re: Frustrations with Sunshine's Kit #104-2 NJI&I 3000 series #104-2

Bill, I would think that your kit had a side that possibly was a reject from the casting process and was inadvertently packed when the kit was made up. I have this kit and immediately went and

By Thomas Olsen <tmolsen@...> · #116756 ·

Product Announcement

I am pleased to announce the newest model available from JJLModels. It is the Erie Bay Window caboose. The model is in HO. Resin shell and parts, stainless steel etchings , includes trucks and

By Joseph Lofland · #116755 ·

FW: What Kind Of Car Is This?

Given that Ralston apparently designed the car as opposed to building it, and there was reference to a 1906-1909 time frame, the note in Railway Age 1907 volume 43 page 887 may be pertinent - "Solvay

By Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@...> · #116754 ·

Re: What Kind Of Car Is This?

So this is likely to be the fist type of covered hopper car? Cyril Durrenberger

By Cyril Durrenberger · #116753 ·

Re: What Kind Of Car Is This?

I was about to weigh in on this subject, as the speculation about box-tank cars, pickle cases, etc. struck me as too clever by half, and say that the cars appeared to be early covered hoppers when

By Richard Hendrickson · #116752 ·

Re: What Kind Of Car Is This?

James and Group: From the pictures, one can see sloping and horizontal rivet lines indicating slope sheets for (up-side down pyramid shaped) muitiple hoppers, and the hopper bottom outlets, which

By Joe Bower <jnbower1@...> · #116751 ·

Re: What Kind Of Car Is This?

Dear Bob, I believe that these might be soda ash cars built in 1909 by Ralston Steel Car Co. for The Solvay Process Co. That same website has some other photos showing what look to be the same type

By James McDonald · #116750 ·

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